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Estimates of civilian lives lost since March 2011 vary greatly, from about 117,000 to 226,000 – but the vast scale of this modern killing field is indisputable. “Tens of thousands of civilians arbitrarily detained in Syria remain forcibly disappeared, while thousands more have been subject to torture, sexual violence or death in detention,” the UN reported this month. Syria’s cities and economy are in ruins. Twelve million people face hunger. Such figures may have lost the power to shock. But the underlying moral question still has universal relevance: why is this carnage allowed to continue?

The pandemic has revealed weaknesses in our society, but it has also opened avenues for radical change; for conversations about how science can save humanity, how populism functions in a democracy, and how we should govern social media to prevent the rapid spread of misinformation. Stephan Lewandowsky is a cognitive scientist who studies how people think and make decisions. He investigates how trust and emotions are manipulated in a global health crisis.

Could this be a proof that aliens exists??

We were convinced that our neighbor is a vampire even thour our parents thinks we are just being paranoid.

It was Christmas Eve and I was working in the embalming room of a funeral home. The embalming room was everything the cop shows your grandparents watch conditioned you to think it was. A cold, utilitarian space with puke green tiles on the walls, tiles on the floor, and harsh fluorescent lighting. A row of freezers were to one side and an office area lay to the other. In the middle was a metal table where the magic happened. A large man with marble blue skin and a distended stomach was laid out like a Thanksgiving turkey in hell, a thin white sheet covering his privates. Christmas music drifted from an ancient transistor radio on a high shelf and snow filled the sole window. Death never takes a break and neither did I..... Listen till the end! Rumble up.