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In Defense of Nepotism
Nobody likes nepotism. It's one of those universally reviled practices in society. To be familiar with the word is to have a negative association with it. Nepotism refers to preferentially giving jobs and other favors to relatives or friends. Everyone is quick to call out nepotism when they see it, quick to belittle those who benefit from it and to cast aspersions on those who bestow it. It’s regarded as a form of corruption, a moral failing, and an impediment to progress. The problem is, nepotism’s many critics are full of shit — their antipathy poorly thought-out and mired in envy and hypocrisy.
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Incarcerated youths at greater risk for dying early, study finds
People incarcerated as adolescents and teens are more likely to die at young age than the rest of the population, an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. Those ages 11 to 21 years who previously served time in juvenile detention facilities have a nearly six-fold higher risk for early death compared with those who have not been incarcerated, the data showed.
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Researchers Want To Create Safe, Inclusive Virtual Reality Hangouts For Teens
The advent of the internet shifted how we socialise. Chat rooms, forums, and eventually social media platforms opened up new ways to both communicate and express ourselves. Online anonymity, for example, allowed us to be whoever we pleased to anyone with a connection — for better or worse. Psychological research followed this shift, and decades later there are troves of papers on almost every aspect of online interaction you could hope to explore.
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Where did the time go? Blame the pandemic | CBC News
For many of us, the last 20 months have flown by. Experts say that's because the monotony of pandemic life has robbed us of the unique experiences our brains use to make memories and track time.
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The “Maybe Favour”: We More Readily Commit To Helping A Stranger If We Might Not Have To Follow Through
By Emma Young. Exploiting the “maybe favour” effect could have big implications for society.
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Why an African perspective on humanity shows that survivor's guilt makes sense
Sometimes individuals who survive a tragedy, such as a tsunami, report feeling guilty that they lived while innocent people close to them perished. Similarly, I have had some black professionals in post-apartheid South Africa tell me they feel guilty for having left their townships or villages and “made it” while their former neighbours still live in poverty.
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It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
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Why Work If You Don’t Have To?
Why work if you don’t have to? The truth is, when someone is rewarded without working for it, they lose something very special.
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Best location to choose, to build the first city of a new (re-started) civilization
Response to: "If civilization restarted and you had to pick the best location to build the first city, which location would you choose to ensure a long term strategic and economic advantage?"
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Nearly half of American workers don’t earn enough to afford a one-bedroom rental
Nearly half of American workers do not earn enough to rent a one-bedroom apartment, according to new data. Rents in the US continued to increase through the pandemic, and a worker now needs to earn about $20.40 an hour to afford a modest one-bedroom rental. The median wage in the US is about $21 an hour.
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How US high school culture brought teen values to the world
Adolescence isn’t a time of life so much as a frame of mind. Liberating yet damaging, it’s transformed the US and the world
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MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule
A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data. As the world looks forward to a rebound in economic growth following the devastation wrought by the pandemic, the research raises urgent questions about the risks of attempting to simply return to the pre-pandemic ‘normal.’
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35+ Hilarious Cultural Differences Between The US And Canada That Are Too Real
Now We Understand The Long Standing Love-Hate Relationship Between The US And Canada
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What does the dawn of demisexuals tell us? How sex-drenched society has become
Pop culture has become more and more sexualised, as sex is sold to us willy-nilly. But young people are turning away from it in droves, writes the Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
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How Money Changes the Way You Think and Feel
The term “affluenza”—a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, defined as a “painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste, resulting from the dogged pursuit of more”—is often dismissed as a silly buzzword created to express our cultural disdain for consumerism. Though often used in jest, the term may contain more truth than many of us would like to think.
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Wealth secret of the super rich revealed: be born into a rich family
The 10 richest dynasties, such as those behind Walmart and Mars, grew their net worth by $136bn during the pandemic, report finds
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Opinion | What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor
Why do we leave millions of people in poverty? The answer should make us uncomfortable.
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Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power
Will A.I. give us the lives of leisure we long for — or usher in a feudal dystopia? It depends.
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Social media CEOs hedge on whether they’d boot the 12 anti-vax ‘super-spreaders’ cited by states’ attorneys general – TechCrunch
On Wednesday, a coalition of a dozen state attorneys general called on Facebook and Twitter to step up their enforcement of their community guidelines to curtail the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on their platforms. Their letter specifically identified 12 “anti-vaxxer” accou…
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Here's why women across India are sharing images of themselves in ripped jeans
Uttarakhand’s CM Tirath Singh Rawat said that women are setting a “bad example” for society and leading to substance abuse by wearing ripped jeans.
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