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Every other country tried to scare teenagers off drugs. Iceland tried something else.
Iceland teen drug prevention was not built around warnings, bans, or awareness campaigns. It was built around a completely different question. In 1998, Iceland had one of…
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Social facilitation psychology: Why being watched changes everything
Social facilitation psychology begins with a cyclist and a stopwatch. In 1898, Norman Triplett noticed something while reviewing official cycling records. Cyclists racing against other riders consistently…
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Gamsutl village: The last man who refused to leave
Gamsutl village has no road. There used to be one. It collapsed decades ago and nobody rebuilt it. Now the only way in is a two-hour hike…
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The morphine addict who accidentally invented the world’s most consumed drug
John Pemberton Coca Cola was never meant to be a drink. It was meant to be a cure. He set out to stop being in pain. In…
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Dronacharya and Arjuna: Why he chose a student over his own son
Drona had one son and one student. He loved both completely. He could not serve both equally. The Mahabharata does not pretend otherwise. This is not a…
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Fujifilm Instax Mini review: Beautiful camera, Terrible odds
The Fujifilm Instax Mini does something in the first thirty seconds that almost nothing does anymore. It makes you feel something before you have even used it.…
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Before you post: The wall social media built in your mind
Before you post, something has already decided for you. Will I become what I keep paying attention to? I have been sitting with that question for longer…
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Procrastination psychology: Why your brain always delays
You stayed to read this despite having other things to do. That is not weakness. That is procrastination psychology doing exactly what it was built to do.…
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Why memes replace feelings. And why that should worry you
The relationship between memes and feelings seems obvious until you look at it directly. You feel something. Someone else made a meme about something close to it.…
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Solomon Shereshevsky: The man who could not forget anything
Solomon Shereshevsky arrived at Alexander Luria's office in Moscow sometime in the 1920s as a journalist who had been sent there by his editor. The editor had…
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Why daylight saving time still exists, Nobody voted for it
Daylight saving time Europe has been trying to end itself since 2018. It has not managed it yet. The European Commission asked 4.6 million people a simple…
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Ahamkara: the ego the Gita actually warned you about. It is not what you think
Duryodhana says something in the Mahabharata that most retellings quietly skip. He says: I know what is right. I cannot do it. I know what is wrong.…
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