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Reliability is magnetic because humans are hardwired to avoid risk, so once you prove yourself trustworthy and reliable, you become the default choice for opportunities without ever asking for them.

В Япония съществува понятието „madogiwa-zoku“ (窓際族) – „племето до прозореца“. Така наричат по-възрастни служители, които получават символични работни места с малко или никакви отговорности. Вместо да ги пенсионират компаниите ги оставят на заплата като жест на уважение към дългогодишната им служба

(Truth is the Daughter of Time; Cronos, a bearded old man, winged and naked, bears aloft Veritas, personified as a young, naked female, both airborne; Veritas holds a drapery which is entwined about them both; below, Invidia, or Envy, personified by a winged female with snakes for hair, lies vanquished upon the ground, gnawing at her own heart; rocks form a backdrop behind the figures; below image, an inscribed cartouche upon a feigned wall. Engraving – British Museum, Museum number 1957,0413.258)

“Veritas filia temporis” ~ Truth is the daughter of time.

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it." ~ John Lennon during an interview on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971

'It will be a great hoax in the history of mankind': How fake Hitler diaries fooled the British press In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, the forged diaries were an extraordinary hoax.

Adolf Hitler died on this day 80 years ago. This is the story of how fake "Hitler diaries" fooled the German and British press four decades after his death: bbc.in/3GhPvpv

Polish parcel locker network InPost buys UK delivery firm Yodel for £106m Deal will create third largest independent delivery business serving online retailers in Britain

It comes after the £3.6bn takeover of Royal Mail’s parent company International Distribution Services by the Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský, amid an industry shake-up fuelled by a boom in online shopping and parcel deliveries.

‘We’ve been living in hell’: Russian locals accuse authorities of neglect during Ukrainian occupation Though Kyiv’s forces have largely been pushed back over the border, civilians are struggling to rebuild their lives

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Russian soldiers are getting better at rapidly spotting and smashing enemy artillery Bitter experience in Ukraine has taught Russian artillerymen to be more agile and sophisticated. Their aim is improving.

Bitter experience in Ukraine has taught Russian artillery to be more agile and sophisticated in ways that could threaten NATO forces in a future war.

How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking? Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. But our mental processes are more mysterious than we realize.

Thinking in pictures, thinking in patterns, thinking in words—these are quite different experiences. But do thinkers themselves fall into such neat categories?

In a break from U.S., British PM calls for probe into Israel's killing of emergency workers in Gaza “There’s got to be an investigation,” Keir Starmer told British lawmakers.

British PM Starmer calls for a probe into the killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza after a video appeared to contradict Israel's account of the incident and it walked back its version of events.

40 percent of world's power clean but emissions rising - report - BBC News More clean electricity was generated in 2024 but there was a rise in the amount of coal and gas burnt too.

In 2024, more than 40 per cent of the world's electricity was generated without burning fossil fuels. However, carbon dioxide emissions, which warm the planet, have risen to an all-time high.

Exposure to Drinking Water Trihalomethanes and Risk of Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Epidemiologic Evidence and Dose–Response Meta-Analysis | Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 133, No. 1 Background: Chlorination is a widespread method for drinking water disinfection that has the drawback of introducing potentially carcinogenic chemical by-products to drinking water. Objective: We sy...

🚰 Chlorinated water and cancer risk

A new meta-analysis links trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water to higher risks of bladder and colorectal cancer - even below current US/EU limits.

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Към февруари 2025 г. числеността на британската армия е около 71 300 войници, като се очаква тя да спадне под 70 000 през следващите години. Това е най-ниската численост на армията от епохата на Наполеоновите войни насам.

Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term | CNN Politics When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his first administration, the Danish prime minister called the idea “absurd” and rebuffed him outright.

Danish officials are being warned by President-elect Trump's allies and advisers that he is serious about buying Greenland from Denmark, multiple Danish officials told CNN.

According to new data obtained by Greenpeace, oil and chemical companies that created a high-profile alliance to end plastic pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the waste they diverted from the environment.

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