Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/31/take-two-van-goghs-daily-the-growing-popularity-of-museum-prescriptions #Artanddesign #Mentalhealth #Worldnews #Museums #Culture #Doctors #Society #Health #Canada #Art

Science fiction may help foster a sense of global solidarity by evoking awe, study finds

https://www.psypost.org/science-fiction-may-help-foster-a-sense-of-global-solidarity-by-evoking-awe-study-finds/

In the 1970s, a group of female students at Tohoku University began demanding the university provide free menstrual products in restrooms. They were met with ridicule. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/japan/society/japan-gender-equality-movement-menstruation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #women039sissues #menstruation #health #students #tohokuuniversity

"Data2Action exists to make emerging technology work harder for humanity, enabling us to co-create a healthier, fairer and more sustainable world for all. [...]

We’re recruiting *13 funded doctoral fellows from Europe and beyond* to work collaboratively across a range of interconnected cutting-edge research and development projects."

#HorizonEurope #UKResearchAndInnovation #UKRI #MarieCurie #MSCA #DoctoralNetwork #PhD #DataScience #Data2Action #SocialInnovation #SocialImpact #LivingLabs #CoCreation #Collaboration #Transdisciplinary #Dissemination #Communication #NetworkBuilding #CommonGood #AI #CuttingEdge
#Technology #Humanity #Health #Fairness #Sustainability #SustainableWorld #PublicGood #SocialPioneers #ArtificalIntelligence
#SectoralExperts #Society #RealWorldSolutions #ClimateChange #SocialJustice #Democracy #Aging #People #Planet

http://www.data2action.eu

Great CACM article about UK's Horizon Post Office scandal #Software #QA #Validation #Verification #Society https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-software-bugs-led-to-one-of-the-greatest-miscarriages-of-justice-in-british-history/

Many needy households in Japan are considering reducing their living expenses to cover the necessary spending for their children enrolling in junior or senior high school in April, a survey has found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/japan/society/needy-households-school-preparation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #schools #surveys #poverty #children #aid

Rethinking Truth, Reconciliation, and Justice in Cambodia (A free, 17-page article from 2021)

Tags: #Philosophy #Justice #Society #Cambodia #Demons
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/resilient-relations_deangelo-darcie

TO CUTTY-EYE. To look out of the corners of one's eyes, to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the fellow looked suspicious at us.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Nouveau

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/nouveau/

There is a story that has been repeating itself for centuries, each time dressed in new words and new faces, a narrative that the masses have always found easy to believe.

#discrimination #populism #minorities #immigration #politics #society #europe #lgbtq_plus #europeanunion #humanrights #community #humanrightsmatter

https://officinaprogetti.org/en/a-story-we-must-stop-telling/

What identity do we truly want? That of an isolated country or that of a stronger, more united European community?

#eu #europeanunion #europe #politics #economy #society #identity #humanrights #peace #defenddemocracy

https://officinaprogetti.org/en/divided-and-vulnerable-europes-radical-right-and-sovereignists/

Interesting read.

#tedpill #future #Tech #SocialMedia #society

NYTimes: The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/magazine/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-luigi-mangione.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Every day, inevitably, we confront the limits of our knowledge. Ignorance, in itself, simply means “not knowing.” What turns it into “the mother of all evils,” to quote Plato, is the way we manifest it.

#thinking #ignorance #society #philosophy #psicology #culture #wisdom #knowledge #personalgrowth #criticalthinking

https://officinaprogetti.org/en/the-two-faces-of-ignorance/

FRATERS. Vagabonds who beg with sham patents, or briefs, for hospitals, fires, inundations, &c.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

How a ban on food dye in West Virginia has forged an unlikely alliance https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/west-virginia-food-dye-ban #RobertFKennedyJr #WestVirginia #Republicans #Society #Health #USnews

Married To The Land

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/married-to-the-land/

Sexual assault allegations seem to be a badge of honor in Trump’s America. Was #MeToo an epic failure? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/30/metoo-movement-backlash-womens-rights-young-men #Trumpadministration ##MeToomovement #Sexualviolence #DonaldTrump #Classissues #TaranaBurke #SusanFaludi #AndrewTate #USpolitics #USeconomy #ElonMusk #Society #Gender #USnews #Women #Men

https://www.europesays.com/1954867/ PM Mitsotakis Visits Israel for Talks on Defense, Energy, and Stability #Climate #Culture #Energy #EnglishVima #Finance #NewsInEnglish #Opinions #Politics #science #society #tourism #TovimaEnglish #TovimaEnglishEdition #tovima.com #wsj

Beniko, a former sex worker, has set out to document Tokyo's red-light history through photography. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/30/japan/society/tokyo-sex-worker-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #prostitution #tokyo #yoshiwara #photography