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Know Your World #60: Expired or not?

▶️ When it’s so hard to make food, why do so many of us waste so much food? One of the reasons: expiry dates. Let this video convince you to trust your senses a little more than a printed date.

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Future #15: Obsolescence

▶️ Technology has not only changed our lives, it has also changed itself completely. Cassettes and CDs were once so common that we thought they’d stay around, but now they are obsolete (=no longer needed), like many other things.

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Know Your World #61: Wanna get to school? Take the bike bus!

▶️ Now what on Earth is a “bike bus”? Watch this BBC report from Glasgow, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland.

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Know Your World #62: 🇮🇱Israel and 🇵🇸Palestine explained

▶️ It’s tempting to get emotional about the news these days. But as with every conflict there’s a long story to it that gets forgotten about when a conflict intensifies (=becomes stronger). Watch this explainer video by VOX to catch up on some background knowledge.

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Know Your World #63: Is friendship in crisis?

▶️ There are studies that suggest people have less friends today than they used to. Watch this talk by British-American scholar and writer Richard Reeves.

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🎉 Special Day: The History of Halloween

▶️ Whether you have any special feelings today or not, it’s worth looking into the history of Halloween as a festival that has conquered the world.

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Know Your World #64: Guns, Germs and Steel (Part 1)

▶️ This documentary from 2005 is a real classic. It tries to answer the question why Europeans, and more broadly Westerners, have dominated the globe for so long. Watch Part 2 here.

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Know Your World #65: Central Asia’s new alliances

▶️ Read this recent article from the Economist about the Stan countries’ foreign policy outlook for the coming years.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #economist
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Know Your World #66: All major religions in 10 minutes

▶️ Here’s a pretty concise (=short but informative) overview of the world’s religions. Check out their basic beliefs, in the name of world peace!

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Know Your World #67: The Great Global Warming Swindle

▶️ Here’s a 2007 British documentary that claims global warming is a swindle (=cheating). The term “global warming” has since been abandoned in favour of the more universal “climate change”. It’s been heavily criticised for going against mainstream science.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary