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For about five years, I was swept up into a cult-like ideology called “Rationalism”, via the writings of cult leader Eliezer Yudkowsky on his website Less Wrong. I'm ready to talk about it.

Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2023 FW13 as a quasi-moon, a space rock orbiting the sun nearly in tandem with Earth.

Malaysia says new ruling by French court could overturn a $14.9bn award handed to Filipino heirs of the Sulu sultanate.

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How our culture, politics and technology became infused with a mysterious social phenomenon that everyone can feel but nobody can explain.

Ambikapur, located in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, is a small city that houses about 200,000 people. In the recent years, the city has become synonymous with ‘cleanliness’, as the decentralised waste management plan undertaken by the city’s municipal corporation, has won national and international recognition. Maxima Minj, 45, who has been working at the city’s Nawa […]

Without a spouse in the house, single moms do fewer chores and get more sleep.

The legal case brought by Sulu Sultanate heirs against Malaysia highlights the unexpected links between present day tensions and European colonialism in Southeast Asia.

RCP has discussed a lot of cases where coercive control is present. Many of you have asked "What is coercive control and what is the new law in England and Wales that Laura spearheaded and Evan was an adviser on?" Both Laura and Evan were in the UK at the same time, speaking at the same conference on coercive control. They sat down in a dressing room to discuss it. New to Real Crime Profile? Never miss an episode by subscribing today at smarturl.it/realcrime

In the Netherlands, about an hour and a half south of Amsterdam, there’s a city called Breda. Like many Dutch towns, it has cozy narrow streets, canals and plenty of bicycles. But there’s one historic building – right in the middle of town that really stands out from the rest. It’s a big, cylindrical structure,

Listen to The History of US Agriculture: How Jim Crow paid off for the Midwestern family farm from Farm to Taber. Episode cover photo: “Roy Merriot getting ready to move a transportable house. He is a tenant of a 160 acre loan company farm which has recently been sold, and is now holding a ‘quitting farm’ sale. This is the third farm he has lost in the last ten years.” Russell Lee, photographer, December 1936, from Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photographs, Yale University Photogrammar Project. Available at https://photogrammar.org/photo/fsa1997021314/PPTranscriptFull bibliographyMain sources in this episode:SC food imports in 1917: Kirkendall, Richard S. 1988. Henry A. Wallace’s Turn Toward the New Deal, 1921-1924. The Annals of Iowa 49(3):221-239. Accessed 3 Mar 2022. Available at https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/10699/galley/119275/view/The Rise and Fall of Pellagra. 2018. Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick, Werner Troesken. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 23730. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w23730Shu-Ching Lee. 1947. The Theory of the Agricultural Ladder. Agricultural History 21(1):53-61.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3739772?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentsPossession and Power: The Legal Culture of Tenancy in the United States, 1800-1920. Adam Jacob Wolkoff. Dissertation, Rutgers, 2015.

The hero in Disney+'s show American Born Chinese follows a familiar journey for colonized people, predicted by theorist Frantz Fanon.

I   They made the desert bloom, tall sparkling towers and clean Bauhaus lines, and apple-ring acacias, and teal blue shuttle buses, and stock exchanges, and theme parks, and for some it was the best time ever and for others it was just fine. ‘Three decades ago, the site of…

The ethnic minority can now openly express their cultural identity but remain vulnerable to prejudice.

Cities from Canggu to Medellín are welcoming tech workers, but locals complain they’re being priced out.

Saudi Arabia became a top shareholder while its spies infiltrated Twitter.

"If we ignore climate change as a public health threat, we are abdicating our role as healthcare providers"

Go inside the Israeli apartheid system to learn how it affects the daily lives of Palestinians.

LINDA LIM explains the complexities behind Singapore’s seemingly alarming number four rank in The Economist’s Crony Capitalism index. Regardless of the scale and impact of political connections in the Singapore economy, though, the republic’s status as an enabler of crony capitalism in other countries should be of concern.

Her debut book, The Trauma of Caste, exposes caste oppression in the South Asian subcontinent and the United States.

Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis

Since April 2020, there has been a systematic campaign of judicial harassment by the Perikatan Nasional government targeting the media and journalists for their reporting, including independent news outlet Malaysiakini and Al Jazeera. The authorities are pursuing activists and government critics, as well as opposition parliamentarians, using an array of restrictive laws to stifle criticism. Individuals calling for or holding peaceful protests have also been questioned or arrested.

With its subversive poetry, rejection of politics, and ecstatic rituals, Sufi Islam continues to surprise and to thrive

The pronoun switch is helping women forge deeper religious connections

Math is called the “universal language,” but a unique dialect is being reborn

Indonesia, a multicultural country, exhibits high diversity of cultural heritage. Sambal, for example, a traditional chili paste or sauce usually consumed as condiment, has been an integral part of Indonesian food culture for centuries. Initially, sambal was prepared using native ingredients such as pepper and ginger. Cayenne pepper (Capsicum annuum), a native American plant, was incorporated in sambal recipes in the sixteenth century and since then, it has been the major ingredient of Indonesian sambal. Each region of Indonesia has its own traditional versions of sambal, distinguishable by its ingredients or production methods. The aim of this review is to identify and establish a profile regarding the diversity and geographical distribution of 110 different varieties of sambal in Indonesia reviewed from various cookbooks. The island of Java exhibits the highest amount of sambal variants (64.5% of sambal variants found in Indonesia) among other islands. More than 80% of the identified Indonesian sambals are prepared by crushing and cooking the ingredients. Some also are served as raw sambals in all islands in Indonesia, except Java and Sumatra. Besides chili pepper, sambal production often involves the use of diverse secondary ingredients that gives a unique identity for every sambal recipe (e.g., fruit, local food, aromatic herbs, etc.). Nowadays, sambal is produced both traditionally for direct consumption and modernly in food industries, thus resulting in commercially packaged sambals with long shelf life. Sambal also has potential to contribute to the nation’s economic conditions, mainly by supporting the development of small and medium enterprises. With regard to novelty, this is the first international review discussing the diversity of sambals in Indonesia in a thorough and comprehensive manner.

The art of winning hearts and minds through food is central to gastrodiplomacy, where nations and regions aim to promote their wares beyond their borders. Kiki Aranita took a closer look.

How a Scottish polymath forever changed the course of gender in science and made a high art of connecting the seemingly disconnected.