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Конфискация телефонов в школе • Confiscation des téléphones à l'école • Confiscation of phones at school

Confiscation of phones at school?

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The behavioral and intellectual decay of this new generation can only be brought back to normal when limits are set
société du savoir, общество знаний, knowledge society, cyborg, développement personnel, киборг, самосовершенствование, personal improvement

How We Got Dumber: Why the Flood of Knowledge Fails to Make Us Learn

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Digital middle ages: become a cyborg and forget self-improvement. Progress or surrender?
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Violence sanctified by the Catholic Church?

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Why Catholic churches are so often filled with paintings and statues that openly display explicit, deadly violence?
Black Friday, Halloween • Why do we copy everything from the Americans • Anton Malafeev

Black Friday…
Why do we copy (everything) from the Americans?

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What intellectual chain of events led us to copy this "festival" — without even translating its name?
Общая культура и посредственность общества. Médiocrité de la culture générale de la nouvelle génération

The mediocrity of today’s youth’s general culture

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It’s not so much the rise of artificial intelligence that’s frightening, but rather the pervasive decline of natural intelligence…
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Speculative Design for Ecocentric Innovation

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Why our idea of sustainable innovation is driven by anthropocentrism? And how can new design orientation help to shift to ecocentrism?
The Bicycle Horn : Vision, Identity and MasculinityTeun Hocks

The Bicycle Horn : Vision, Identity and Masculinity

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The sound of a bicycle horn might move one forward on their life or career goals. Why and how a childhood gift may influence the rest of an adult’s life.
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Wounded Boys and Men – Masculinity in American Culture

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Do you find Americans aggressive? See how American culture defines masculinity and you may change your point of view, or at least look at things from another angle
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A letter from my Chinese student

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A detached and realistic perspective from my former student on our convoluted world and its entangled societies
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The hypocrisy of asking ‘How are you?’

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The Russians find it hypocritical when Westerners ask others "How are you?" without really worrying about the answer...
high-employee-turnover-in-China-is-not-a-matter-of-money

High employee turnover in China is not a matter of money

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What motivates people in China? What makes them loyal and engaged? And why Chinese manufacturing costs are increasing?
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Cultural Analysis Of Economic Paradoxes

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Could religions explain why the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic countries are more efficient in business and have better economic functioning?
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Do women contribute to the glass ceiling and how?

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The gender pay gap exists. Breaking the glass ceiling seems impossible. But how can women solve this sociological issue?
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What is the right strategy to win a tender and why?

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How comes that you never win tenders? What you need to know from a research about a tender's functioning to finally avoid losing...
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What is most important: Information, Knowledge, Experience, Strategy or Intuition?

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The most important and/or necessary of the 5 elements + a new perspective on knowledge
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Why people are (always) looking for a new job?

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Over half or maybe even 3/4 of the population in the nowadays world is not satisfied and undergo constant discomfort in their job
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What value is most important to people in each country?

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Have you ever wondered how each country forms your values? Infographic "No.1 VALUES IN EVERY COUNTRY": 80,000 people told what they value most in life
Corporate-Meeting-Корпоративное-совещание-Video-sketch-эксперт-специалист-собрание

Reality of corporate meetings and of notion “expert” (video sketch)

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A parody of a corporate meeting characterizing nowadays society and its business codes and attitudes — whatever the culture! Laughs and good food for thought in the same video
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Why the education system needs to be changed?

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The best explanation of the education system's paradigm and its weaknesses in the world. How should we change our approach?..
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The World Without Electricity

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In a world without electricity, you wouldn’t be able to read this article. A pragmatic reflection on the lifestyle of 'the day after'
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Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents’

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Interesting facts about "Flynn effect" — IQ evolution of new generations in comparison with those before it during last 100 years
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15 Interesting Facts About The World’s Languages

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Which languages (out of the 6.000) are the most spoken OR widespread on the web? The longest alphabet and acronym in the world...