Censored articles from around the world find refuge in this massive Minecraft map — Reporters Without Borders is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. In order to expand upon this goal, the organization has turned to an unlikely source: the video game Minecraft, and a 12.5 million-block neoclassical library containing banned journalism…

Until we stop looking at other human beings as the enemy, we’re going to keep having problems. — I keep seeing people writing about how the current administration has done all sorts of wonderful things, and I’m like… “No, they’ve done the absolute bare minimum to keep a Liberal order intact.” The current administration is certainly better than actual Nazis, but decades of Liberalism has also made fertile…

For this pandemic, and all those to come, we must build the resilience of an open heart and mind. — When we are confronted with all the fears of the world, it is easy to become lost, to flounder like someone drowning at sea. There are mitigating factors we can, and must, take in order to protect ourselves and one-another. But there are also serious problems at play when it…

Our biases can change, but first we have to recognize that they exist. — Did you know that human beings are biased toward optimism? About 80% of the population, according to estimates from numerous studies, display an optimism bias (Sharot, 2011). We assume we will enjoy our vacations. We assume that we won’t get into car accidents. We assume that we won’t get sick…

We’re all on the front lines of health and safety these days, so here’s what we can do. — If Covid-19 is still a problem, if there are other airborne diseases (like R.S.V. and influenza) that we need to be wary of, and if there will likely be more such illnesses in the decades ahead… what can we do? Covid-19 is Still a Problem, or: How Diseases Actually Work Can we prepare ourselves for the reality of our world?indubitablyodin.medium.com

In the face of overwhelming greed, it’s more important than ever to make a stand. — As we create further damage to the Earth’s ecosystems, destabilization will make room for more unique diseases. Rising heat, worsening living conditions (disproportionately for the poorest humans), and the destabilization of predatory ecosystems will all lead to more diseases, not fewer. How Can We Meet the Future with Compassion? For this pandemic, and all those to come, we must build the resilience of an open heart and mind.medium.com

The pandemic isn’t over, and its effects will be with us for decades, but information is a pathway to hope and power. — The risk of “Long Covid” symptoms increases every time you get infected. Like a shitty game of viral Russian roulette, you never know when your luck will run out. But what is Long Covid? How can we understand its effects when so much contradictory language has been used, and when…

Can we prepare ourselves for the reality of our world? — Between the 1860s and 1950, Australia attempted to kill a fuck-ton of rabbits using plague. Australia has fought some interesting wars. Like the time that their army lost a war against 30,000 emus. Anyway, the rabbit plague eventually worked — it killed almost all of the rabbits. But then, the…

Some of the weirdest, funniest, and most incredible events from military history. — Humanity has fought wars for about as long as agriculture has existed, but when one thinks of war one might be tempted to think of words like “heroism” and imagine stylized battlefields lit by the explosion of shells, where brave soldiers vie in a desperate struggle for some strategically-vital piece…