Indonesia - 80 million a day

Indonesia, where you can get a pack of cigarettes for about a dollar has become the third largest market for tobacco products world wide. Ab...[more]

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Optical illusions show how we see

How do we see the world and why do we see it the way we do? Is everything the way it seems to us? How does our vision work and how close is ...[more]

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The Released - mentally ill ex-convicts

A rather big percentage of convicts in the USA are mentally ill and need constant medical treatment and psychological guidance. But most of ...[more]

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The METH Epidemic

Meth - or 'Crystal Meth' as it is also called - is probably the most addictive drug that exists. What is even more dangerous: it i...[more]

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In Defense of Food

After publishing several books about the food industry, highlighting its problems and (in some sort) perversity, Michael Pollan got a lot of...[more]

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A journey to the center of your mind

"Ramachandran is a latter-day Marco Polo, journeying the silk road of science to strange and exotic Cathays of the mind. He returns lad...[more]

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