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"Historians are still trying to figure out why China was unwilling to colonize the world since it had the resources, the manpower and the technology to make it happen."

https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-China-colonise-the-world-like-the-Europeans

"Child-averse young couples are increasingly succumbing to the social pressure to start families, only to foist the kids onto older relatives."

http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PVnZm5cmQCHGKqgLUeBATA

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Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) viewed humans as a biological paradox. Consciousness has become over-evolved in humans, therefore making us incapable of functioning normally like other animals: cognition gives us more than we can carry. We want to live, and yet because of how we have evolved, we are the only species aware that it is destined to die. We are able to analyze the past for broad expectations of the future, both our situation and situations of others; we expect justice and meaning in a world where neither occur. This ensures that the lives of conscious individuals are tragic. We have desires: spiritual needs which reality is unable to satisfy, and our species still exists because we limit our awareness of what that reality actually entails. Human existence amounts to a tangled network of defense mechanisms, which can be observed both individually and socially, in our everyday behavior patterns. According to Zapffe, humanity should cease this self-deception, and in consequence, passively end its existence by living out the lives already created but actively abstain from procreation, thus ceasing to create new lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wessel_Zapffe

Nije bas zanimljiv clanak, ali je sjajan video. Kako je vrhunski iskoristen "delay" u zivom prenosu preko Facebook-a.

 

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Our countries’ names instill in us a sense of pride. Our leaders use them as emotional triggers in speeches, and so do citizens, creating slogans around country names to rally support on social media and conjure unity in protests. It’s easier than putting “make the land between Mexico and Canada great again” on hats. But just like our first names are handed to us without our input, the names of nations are inherited, arbitrary, and, often, absurd.

https://qz.com/1070266/the-name-of-a-country-can-only-really-mean-one-of-four-things/

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The Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина, Kolskaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina) is the result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District, on the Kola Peninsula. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

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