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In around 2010, social media appeared in all of our lives. And ever since then, different societies around the world have become more and more polarised. In America, the country was split directly in half as Donald Trump became President of the United States. In Brazil, the country was also split down the middle as […]

Freepik.com When you look down at your smartphone a barrier of energy forms around you. This barrier cannot be seen with the naked eye but it can be felt, by you and those around you. All of your body language, your entire being, sends the following message to the world around you: Leave me alone.

Those innocent little games on the app store. Yes those ones. The free ones. Watch out. In the modern day, almost everything is optimised to take money out of your pocket. Those free games want you to pay. And they will attempt to psychologically manipulate you until you do. Mobile games are highly addictive products.

Freepik.com The soldier sat quietly with the young boy, playing yet another game of chess. He ignored the guilt panging in the back of his mind as he hid underground from the clashing of metal and screams that echoed through the room from outside. His armour and shield leant up against the wall beside the

You’ve witnessed countless smear campaigns throughout your life, but you didn’t notice. You’ve had your opinion about particular individuals shaped for you without your consent on multiple occasions. Think of a politician or celebrity that you dislike. Did you form that negative opinion of them by yourselves, or have you been manipulated? What do you

For a long, long time, humanity has been informationally stunted. For decades, most of our information came through the television, newspapers and the radio. News organisations presented everything we knew about the outside world to us and we accepted what they told us. Hugely complicated issues were condensed into 5 minute segments squished between commercial

  “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic”– Commonly attributed to Stalin Let’s look at two stories. “Harm to a particular person invokes anxiety and sentiment, guilt and awe, responsibility and religion (but)… most of this awesomeness disappears when we deal with statistical death” – American Economist Thomas Schelling As stated

The world is fucked. Climate change. War. Poverty. Deadly pandemics. Corruption. Evil. Rampant crime. Racism. Sexism. Inequality. Overpopulation. Biodiversity collapse. Everything is broken. And humanity is doomed. What’s the point in having children if they’re going to grow up in a hellish environment? Why should children bother studying at school when climate change is going

On every major website, a game is being played. The aim? To take as much money, data and personal information from the customer as possible. While the website owner is aware that such a game is being played, the customer is not. In the internet landscape, dark patterns are embedded everywhere. Not only on the

39% of adults around the world are now overweight. This isn’t a problem restricted only to western countries – this is a global problem. More deaths are now caused by obesity than starvation. Our ancestors, who dealt with famine on a regular basis, could have never imagined that we would now have the exact opposite