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Blog postWe are older than we thought: Recenctly human fossils were found that sets back the date when we left the African continent. It looks humankind started spreading some 200,000 years ago. And in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia (recently struck by a devastating earthquake) the oldest known cave painting. The inhabitants of Pompeii liked to get their food from streetstalls, proving not much has
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Blog postShe appeared in all his dreams.Once as two people,one playful and smart,the other serious and funnywhile stealing his heart.Once as a tree that was easy to hug,than as a scent that felt like a drugOnce she was a cloud,moving too fast and blocking his sun,later a priest who begged him to run.She was also herself, caring and fun.Complex and simple, serene and mysterious, rolled into one.===========
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Blog postYou can't blame conspiracy believers for believing conspiracies. We are wired to see connections. 35,000 Years ago that was a survival skill: 'Hey, that berry looks like the berry my mate Urhm died from, so perhaps I shouldn't eat it.' 'And 'It walks on two legs, just like me but the shape of his nose and the colour of his skin make me think he doesn't belong to my tribe and therefore is a
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Blog postThe Chinese and Russian governments have a way of dealing with individuals who are getting more power than the sitting president: they get incarcerated or 'disappear'.Alexei Navalny had just recovered from an attack on his life via poisoning when upon his return to Russia to reclaim his position opposite of president Putin, he was arrested. Authorities plan to hold him in custody, at least until
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Blog postHe came in, put his bag on the table and pulled something out. A rabbit. A white one. Plush.He waited.She entered, put her bag on the table and pulled something out. A diary. A red one. Leather.The rabbit caught her eye and she looked at him with wonder and a smile.'Is that yours?' she asked.'It was, but it's yours now. If you want it, that is.'She did.=================================Want to
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Blog postBit by bit more comes out of what the Trump family has cost American society. And I'm not only talking financially:If you don't want the people who protect you - literally with their lives - to use your bathroom, you make the American taxpayer pay an extra $3000 a month for security officers to urinate next door. Because that makes sense. Right? https://t.co/NR8vZ8Tlai— Terrence 'Wappiepedia'
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Blog postNext time people tell you there's no new friction at the borders because of Brexit, you can show them this Dutch TV clip of drivers being stopped and having their lunches confiscated. pic.twitter.com/B9eZfDWKFB— OwenAdamsYT (@OwenAdamsYT1) January 10, 2021 Exports from the UK to the EU have plummeted by 68%, British companies dealing with eel and lobster are going bankrupt, shelves in English
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Blog postOne day, people will look back at the period in history known as the Covid-pandemic. When over 1,3 million people died and millions more became incapacitaded from a disease that looked like the flu but was much more contagious and far more lethal than influenza. Perhaps they will even refer to it as 'The Covid-War' and governments will ask then senior citizens how they survived. Here's one of
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Blog postMany homeless suffer from mental issues. But what's the cause and what's the effect? Are people homeless because they have a mental problem or does homelessness cause mental issues?In Finland they had been studying the problem for years. Conclusion of the report: the problem most people have with homeless people is that they are out on the streets and cause irritations by begging, being drunk,
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Blog postThe only sound he heard did little else than emphasise the silence that followed his unspoken question.The slowly waking sun dressed the landscape gliding by in the magnificent display of colours you normally only see in artistically intended Science Fiction movies. The mood in the car was expressed in a delicate balance between serene peace and unspoken tensions.She sat on the passenger seat and
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Blog post'Follow the money!' is what is said when people want to know who really is behind a scheme, a campaign, a war. Although not always (sometimes people are simply stupid) very often a scheme is set up, a campaign is divised, a war is started by the person(s) benifiting the most.The 500 world's richest individuals added 1.8 trillion (just a bit more than an insane amount of money) to their wealth in
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Blog postBy know most people know a certain almost ex-president had the great thought of nuking hurricanes after he saw an old SciFi movie in which that was the preferred solution. In short: if something was on TV he believed it to be a fact. That doesn't only happen to old people with signs of dementia or drug addicts. We descend from people who didn't rely on Facebook and bad SciFi movies for
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Blog postMost elderly who would move, think, say and write like he doeswould be institutionalisedIt's okay to make stupid statements but from a president people expect he will have practiced his speech or had at least mastered the art of reading from a teleprompter:In 1968 Republicans stated everyone who even looks at a Russian is a communist and should be put in jail. Or be hanged. In 2019 the same
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Blog postThese people Chose the smartest amongst them To lead them towards a country in chaos where it has become normal to treat people like this: And like this: People ask their children: 'Why do you shout at people and do you throw around insults and swear words?' 'Well, mommy, if the president does it, why can't I?' Here's a clip showing how The Donald' feels about women: Even his most
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Blog postPictures don't lie. People do. By creative cutting and editing for example.Watch this clip, shared by reporter Andy Ngo, the son of Vietnamese refugees:Looks awful, right? A man being brutally attacked for apparently nothing. Outragous!But here's the full clip, 'accidentally' not shared by Andy Ngo:Different story now, eh? Mr. Ngo (and he's not the only one) is known to show pictures and videos
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Blog postDonald Trump brings out the worst in people. Even the usually incorruptible CNN anchor Anderson Cooper could not restrain himself while covering the 2020 presidential elections. Normally he is very polite and reserved but after a couple of long hours of working and having to listen to numerous false claims by Donald Trump and those few people on his team who still support him, even Anderson
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Blog postThe Queen's Gambit is one of the best things I watched this past year:'For the love of god, it finds a way to inject sex appeal into chess.'https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elaminabdelmahmoud/the-queens-gambit-netflix-what-to-watchChess can be an exciting game to watch.And a game I love to play.Do you play chess?Want to read (more of) my short stories? My author page: Terrence Weijnschenk at
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Blog postWe are spoiled. Sure, we can't go clubbing, theatres are shut, we only see our colleagues via Zoom and some of us have lost friends or relatives to an invisible enemy. But we have food and shelter and we can talk to our friends and relatives without being worried that they may not answer to our calls because they are 'different'. We have access to almost all accumulated knowledge in the world
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Blog postYou have all seen these nice statistics that prove a point, right? They look great, there's a long url mentioned at the bottom and they seem to prove what you already thought. Great!However, more often than not you are mislead. Have you ever actually followed the provided link or did you never 'have time' to actually do just that tiny little bit of research but shared the graph anyway, 'proving'
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Blog postWe have known for a while that plastic is found everywhere. Ever since its invention - just a few decades ago - it has taken over the world. There is literally no place in the world where you don't find plastic. Recently it was even found in the Mariana Trench! Scientists have found microplastics not only there but even near the top of the Mount Everest. That climbers where sloppy with leaving
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Blog postImmigrants are dying in custody but there's no outrage 'because they're just immigrants'. Immigrants are amazing people because somehow they are capable of being too lazy to work but at the same time they are stealing jobs from the locals. I've been searching but haven't found a single valid argument why immigrants should be held of at the border of any nation. Even one of the most tolerant
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Blog postNice things still happen. Really. To some it may seem having to stay at home a lot, not being able to go out and when you do having to wear a face mask is nothing less than living under a fascist regime and just a small step away from a new holocaust but it's nothing, really. And if you are really, really afraid perhaps you could try focusing on the nice stuff that's out there.Here are two
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Blog postShe was standing at the traffic lights with her bicycle. Leaning one hand against the black-and-white striped traffic light pole she was balancing, feet on pedals, trying her best not to touch the ground.He watched her and couldn't help thinking about the man who tried to fly by letting himself fall and then forget to touch the ground. The twinkle in her eyes told him that she had a secret that
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Blog postAll over the world people are rising up against their governments. And against scientists. They state they are living in a dictatorship because of facemask mandates, their local bars being closed and other measures governments are taking to control the Coronavirus pandemic, backed by scientists. People are crazy with frustration so are very gullible when it comes to 'news' that seems to back up
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Blog postYou basically do the same things everybody else does: you wake up, do things and go to bed. Every single day of your life. Well, most days anyway.But others seems to live meaningful and happy lives while you only seem to work from paycheck to paycheck, get groceries, do the dishes and watch Netflix. First of all: maybe social media is the culprit. When you look at the lives of others everyday to
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