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Lula 3.0 and the austerity trap

Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through his third term, macroeconomic indicators paint a fairly rosy picture of the country’s trajectory under his...

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Funding cuts on the rise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFY2ydsj3gE Money likes to go where money already resides. This truism is valid in the cultural sector as well, which has seen a lot of its funding opportunities disappear since 2008. And as funding disappears from the field, so do...

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Sleep tight, mate | Eurozine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulGsWDQTCM Loneliness is a serious public health issue. The Mental Health Foundation confirms that it makes it harder for people to connect, which leads to fear of social situations, and ultimately makes it more difficult to escape negative thoughts. The...

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Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human Body as a Modern Factory

In 1926, Fritz Kahn, a Ger­man gyne­col­o­gist and anato­my text­book author, pro­duced a lith­o­graph called Der Men­sch als Indus­triepalast (Man as Indus­tri­al Palace) that depict­ed the human body as a fac­to­ry, a chem­i­cal plant of sorts. Kah­n’s body came com­plete with mechan­i­cal lungs,...

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