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A more active Sun, with more sunspots and that produces more frequent and more energetic space weather events, has a much greater potential for affecting the Earth in a number of ways.&nbsp;
&nbsp;For a more in-depth look at this topic, have a look at the article below.
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Get Wiser in 10 Minutes

All the content here makes you more curious to learn and expand your knowledge. There will be weird, surprising, fun, and exciting facts about everything. Let’s start the brain teaser 🧠
Today's hit topic: The Evolution of Consciousness
Consciousness poses an important difference: In all of these other cases, we theorize about things we can’t observe in order to explain what we can observe. Uniquely with consciousness, the thing we are trying to explain cannot be publicly observed.
How then can we investigate consciousness? Although consciousness can’t be directly observed, if you’re dealing with another human being, you can ask them what they’re feeling, or look for external indications of consciousness. And if you scan their brain at the same time, you can try to match up the brain activity, which you can observe, with the invisible consciousness, which you can’t. The trouble is there are inevitably multiple ways of interpreting such data. This leads to wildly different theories as to where consciousness resides in the brain. Believe it or not, the debates researchers are currently having in the science of consciousness closely resemble debates that were raging in the 19th century.
Cover: Lancet Neurology - Mario Wagner
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Brainteaser: The Evolution of Consciousness

Quick meditation can help you become more in tune with your body and its needs. It can also help you tune out distractions and focus on the present moment, especially if you have a busy or stressful lifestyle. By regularly quieting your mind and focusing on your breath, you can learn to listen to your body and recognize when it needs rest, nourishment, or other forms of self-care. This can help you make healthier choices and better manage your physical and emotional well-being. Use these quick meditations as a tool to boost your productivity, manage your emotions, and find balance in your daily life. Please take a deep breath and begin your journey to inner peace with our quick meditation curation.

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Quick Meditation

Looking for a little pick-me-up? Look no further! This curation is here to brighten your day and bring a smile to your face. Go ahead, indulge in a little self-care and treat yourself to some feel-good content. You deserve it 🌻
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Silver Linings

This week's top pick: Prince Harry - Spare
The highly charged "Spare" memoir, written with the help of a talented ghostwriter, reveals much more than just Prince Harry's adversaries. The ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer who the author of The Tender Bar, has written the most riveting memoir. The memoir challenges the current orthodox establishment, and offers insight into the life of a royal spare, someone who is second or third in line to the throne, and the challenges they face.&nbsp;

〰️ Updated every Saturday.
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Guilty Pleasures

Feeling productive can be a challenge, especially in today's fast-paced and busy world. But with the right mindset and approach, it's possible to increase your productivity and accomplish more in less time. In this curation, we'll be sharing some practical tips and techniques to help you boost your productivity and achieve your goals.
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Feeling Productive

Do you find yourself scrolling through social media during your lunch breaks? If you would rather spend it on 'information breaks' that can make your life a little better, this one is for you. We promise it won’t take a lot of time. 5 minutes.


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Bite-Sized Knowledge 

Warning ⚠️ This curation will make you calmer. If you feel anxious or stressed, have a go at these posts for changing your mindset.

〰️ Updated every Sunday.
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Calm Sundays

Small talk has never been our strong suit. Here are some topics you can throw around at parties, lunch breaks or ... dates? Inspired by We are not really strangers, these are great topics to talk about when getting to know someone.
⚠️Disclaimer: Some topics are more contrarian/bold than the rest. Maybe hold them off during work hours.
Conversation Starter of the week:
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<li>Ask someone you are getting to know if they found their “IKIGAI”. If not what do they envision it as? </li>
<li>Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means your ‘reason for being.’ ‘Iki’ in Japanese means ‘life,’ and ‘gai’ describes value or worth. Your ikigai is your life purpose or your bliss. It’s what brings you joy and inspires you to get out of bed every day.</li>
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〰️ Updated every Friday. Image: Andhika Ramadhian
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Conversation Starter

This curation includes fun, unique, cool, and interesting websites you didn’t hear before. Start to discover!
Website of The Week
<a href="http://pixelthought.co/" target="_self">Pixelthought.co</a> will help you to do a 60 seconds meditation and feel more relaxed. You will feel less stressed after it. Just try 🌾

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- Artistic and more candid stock images - Fonts fonts fonts - Colour pallettes - Mockups - Branding - Icons, Vector Art, Hand-drawn Illustrations - UI/UX - Inspiration hubs

The Absolute Best Websites for Designers

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Pinterest isn't bad, but the content can sometimes be cluttered with duplicates and unrelated material. Here are a few of my favourite alternatives when I'm looking for inspiration.
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Stop Using Pinterest

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My Substack account

The average tenure for a startup revenue executive is 17 months. At this pace, you'll work for 14 companies over a 20 year career. Here's what you need to achieve your professional goals in this environment: 1. Functional training in your role from trusted outside resources (your company will NOT have the means to sufficiently train you on anything but their industry and their product). 2. Regular, centralized access to the newest sales and marketing technologies so you know how to use them and whether they’re a fit for your team 3. Vetted recommendations from peers on 1 and 2 4. A job board and a community 5. Centralized access to top tier private equity and VC firms managed independently of your current employer’s financing strategy 6. Knowledge on how to build your own consulting and advisory business to provide secondary revenue streams 7. The ability to negotiate executive compensation with assistance from the world’s leading experts 8. A permanent homebase filled with people that care about you and are looking out for your best interests without conflicts or obligations to anyone else. A place whose incentives are completely aligned to your professional success. As a tech entrepreneur, there are plenty of things to do, resources that should be read. I am sharing the articles I recently read in this curation.

Must-Read Articles for Tech Entrepreneurs

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The classification of civilizations according to quantum physics often references the Kardashev Scale, which includes:<div><div><ul><li>Type I: Utilizes all available energy on its home planet.</li><li>Type II: Harnesses energy directly from its star, potentially using structures like Dyson spheres.</li><li>Type III: Utilizes energy at the scale of its entire galaxy.</li></ul></div><div>Extensions of this scale propose higher types, such as Type IV (intergalactic civilizations) and Type V (multi-universal civilizations), which could manipulate energy and matter across multiple universes, leveraging advanced quantum technologies</div></div>

Which type of civilization are you? Take the quiz.

<div>In this curation, I'll be listing a selection of movies that are suggested by many different directors as their favorites. This curation will cover such movies which were released prior to 1960.</div><div>Enjoy and stay gold.</div><div> </div><div>Cover photo: Metropolis&nbsp;(1927) directed by Fritz Lang</div>

Acclaimed Directors’ Favorites | Oldies&Goldies (Prior to 1960)

Explore these insights and take control of your schedule, so you can fuel your passion and build your side hustle into something bigger.
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How to Create Time for Your Side Hustle

Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, writer, and a teacher. In 1972 she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the Wages For Housework campaign internationally. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement. She is one of the co-founders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, an organization dedicated to generating support for the struggles of students and teachers in Africa against the structural adjustment of African economies and educational systems.

From 1987 to 2005 she taught international studies, women studies, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. All through these years she has written books and essays on philosophy and feminist theory, women’s history, education and culture, and more recently the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons 



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Journalist

As the war in Ukraine continues, the devastation and human cost of the conflict is mounting. But as well as the human toll, there has been a terrifying assault on democratic values such as freedom of the press. Journalists and human rights defenders in both Ukraine and Russia are facing enormous challenges and independent voices are being stifled.
In Russia, free speech is being systematically extinguished as independent media is closed down and critical reporters are forced to flee the country. In Ukraine, the local media community is fighting a courageous battle for truth-telling in wartime conditions while standing up for press freedom. Everywhere propaganda and censorship have thrown a cloak of secrecy over the most dangerous conflict to break out in Europe since the Second World War.
In this context, the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), with the support of the Evens Foundation, has commissioned a series of articles about the ethical challenges facing journalists covering this war – in Ukraine, Russia and around the world.
Experts and journalists will write about the ethical challenges of reporting conflict zones; the Ukrainian journalists struggling for impartiality; the courageous resistance of journalists in Russia; and the impact of social media and disinformation on coverage of the conflict.
This series will highlight the importance to news media of the five core values of professional journalism as an antidote to propaganda and censorship. These are:
•	accuracy and fact-based reporting;
•	independence;
•	impartiality;
•	humanity and respect for others; and
•	accountability and responsible reporting.
It can be a struggle to maintain these values at the best of times and is even more difficult during war, when combatants on all sides demonise their opponents and turn to malicious lies and propaganda to win over public opinion.
All journalists reporting the war in Ukraine are facing an ethical struggle to tell the story of the conflict in a fair, unbiased and accurate way.
Several storylines have emerged since the Russian invasion which demonstrate the challenges facing news media. One of the most important concerns is the many allegations of war crimes being committed. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sent a team of investigators and forensics experts to Ukraine which it describes as a “crime scene”.
Ukraine is conducting its own investigations and has said it is examining 21,000 war crimes and crimes of aggression allegedly committed by Russian forces since the start of the invasion in February. On its side, Moscow has charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity. Russia is also investigating suspected mercenaries from the UK, the US, Canada, the Netherlands and Georgia. All sides strongly deny committing war crimes, with Russia even blaming Ukraine for targeting its own civilians and shelling its own infrastructure.
Making sense and truth-telling in this confused situation, which is heavily influenced by untested intelligence and blatant propaganda, is an important job for Ukrainian and Russian journalists. Verifying the claims and counterclaims with testimony from the field, talking with victims and eyewitnesses and only using reliable and trustworthy sources of information is essential.
In particular, journalists must cast a sceptical eye over the claims of official sources. However, fully testing the claims and counterclaims may have to wait until a ceasefire.
The refugee crisis that developed almost immediately after the invasion is another important story with many ethical pitfalls. Around six million Ukrainians have fled, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in what has been Europe’s largest refugee crisis in almost 80 years.
Countries across Europe and particularly neighbouring states like the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have opened their borders and offered shelter and financial aid to those fleeing the war. Many Ukrainians have also fled to Germany, France and the UK. European countries have welcomed the displaced Ukrainians with open arms, with visa-free access and permission to access jobs and social services.
But hostility towards refugees, particularly in certain countries of Eastern Europe, has begun to emerge. Rampant inflation is now fuelling a less-welcoming climate. From Warsaw to Bucharest, social networks are flooded with outraged posts showing, with context, luxury cars registered in Ukraine and prosperous individuals waiting for their allowances in front of administrative buildings.
A typical distortion in the Czech Republic, one of the neighbouring countries in the forefront of hosting refugees, falsely alleged that a Ukrainian family could accumulate up to 90,000 crowns (3,700 euros) in public aid, more than the income of many Czech families.
ETHICAL TELLING OF THE REFUGEE STORY
The ethical telling of the refugee story requires journalists to avoid bias, rumour and speculation, to be wary of social networks and internet noise, and to focus on evidence and verifiable facts.
Most refugee agencies and economic data reveal that, like most migrants and refugees, Ukrainians look for work to pay their way when they arrive in new countries. Journalists also need to be alert to the fact that anti-Ukrainian sentiment is a hallmark of Russian propaganda.
Another angle to this story is the contrasting way Europe responded to the refugee crisis in 2015, when more than a million people from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere crossed into Europe. Countries responded by tightening borders and negotiating a deal with Turkey to stem arrivals.
Journalists have been quick to show that the crisis in Ukraine differs from other conflicts. A CBS correspondent described Kyiv as unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, calling it “a relatively civilised, relatively European” city. Europeans see Ukrainians as white and Christian. There are also cultural similarities and a common history with neighbouring countries like Poland.
It’s important for ethical journalists to understand these nuances and the historical context and to be aware of how politicians, such as Hungary’s Viktor Organ, may seek to use these differences to divide communities. Above all, they must avoid perpetuating the image of people from the Middle East, or sub-Saharan Africa as “others” escaping distant conflicts and suggesting, therefore, that their plight is less worthy of shock and empathy.
Journalists need to be cautious about how they report these issues. Providing background is vital but consistency and the ethic of humanity in reporting require news media to avoid reporting that which deliberately seeks to portray some refugees and migrants positively and others from the Mediterranean and the Global South in a negative light.
DISINFORMATION AND WAR
Before the war, the EJN compiled a report on the problems facing media in Ukraine. It found that most mainstream television stations, radios and online outlets were controlled by oligarchs whose support could make or break politicians and who had no interested in balanced and ethical journalism, or reporting that was sensitive to women and minorities.
These oligarch stations were the most popular in Ukraine as their well-funded programming looked highly professional. Before the war, Ukrainians who wanted a balanced picture of what was happening in their country had to channel surf between stations or turn to small, independent websites and radios funded by the international community or crowdfunding campaigns. This independent media scene was vibrant but always threatened by lack of money and a limited audience. With questions marks over the independence of the public broadcaster, Ukrainians tended to distrust media and were vulnerable to the flood of disinformation coming from Russia.
Disinformation sent via Telegram and Facebook was particularly prevalent in early 2022 prior to the February invasion as Russia amassed troops on the border.
Despite the war, Ukraine journalists are continuing to strive to improve the media situation in the country. In July, the two major journalists’ groups, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine and the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine, urged the authorities to bring media regulation into line with European standards of press freedom. The two groups, with the support of the European Federation of Journalists, welcomed the decision of the European Union to grant Ukraine the status of an EU candidate country and used the moment to highlight how the country’s current media law is out of step with European standards.
The Ukraine parliament is considering a draft media law introduced two years ago, but journalists say many of the provisions are contrary to European values. They cite how the new law would give arbitrary and disproportionate regulatory powers covering all media to the national regulator, the National Council on Broadcasting.
In Russia, the situation is far worse. The life of independent journalists in Russia has already been made impossible with the introduction of new laws that can lead to jail for up to 15 years for any journalist or independent activist who criticises the war, the army or government policy over its “military operation in Ukraine”. Even use of the terms “war” or “invasion” has been forbidden by the media regulator.
NEED FOR GLOBAL COOPERATION 
The Independent Media Trade Union in Russia has been suppressed and the Russian Union of Journalists has been steadfast in its lack of resistance to government pressure.
Not surprisingly, in the absence of institutional resistance to their situation, dozens of journalists have fled the country and those inside are forced into silence with only the occasional voice of resistance being heard through isolated podcasts or social media posts.
All of these issues – reporting the war itself, investigating the complex questions of war crimes and the refugee crisis, and reporting on internal struggles for free speech – illustrate the ethical and professional dilemmas facing journalists.
How news media do their work in these difficult conditions impacts public opinion and may even exert some influence on the war and its aftermath. In particular journalists can demonstrate, by attachment to independent journalism and the five core values of the EJN, that media freedom is an essential part of the enabling environment needed for peace, democracy and respect for human rights.
Over the coming months we will focus on the importance of this work and in the process underscore why ethics matter in telling the story of Ukraine both now and for the future.
Aidan White Biography
Aidan White founded the EJN in 2012 after he left the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) where he was General Secretary for 25 years, during which time he helped create the world’s largest organisation of journalists with members in 126 countries.
Aidan worked as a journalist with newspapers in the United Kingdom, including the Birmingham Evening Mail, the Financial Times and The Guardian.
He has written extensively on human rights, ethics and journalism issues and played a leading role in establishing International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), a global network of free expression campaigners, in 1993, the International News Safety Institute (INSI), the global campaign for news safety in 2003.
In 2014 Aidan served on the appointments panel of IMPRESS, the Leveson-compliant alternative press regulator in the UK.
Aidan has recently edited numerous reports for the EJN, including on press freedom in Turkey (Censorship in the Park, 2014), self-regulation in journalism (The Trust Factor, 2015), corruption in journalism (Untold Stories, 2015), media coverage of migration (Moving Stories, 2015), media literacy (Journalism Ethics: An inspiration for free expression and media literacy, 2016), challenges for journalism in post-truth era (Ethics in the News, 2017), and trust in ethical journalism (The Key to Media Futures, 2018).


The Ethics of Telling Ukraine's Story

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For some time now, American officials have been raising concerns about the potential dangers of TikTok. But until recently, their warnings have mostly fallen on deaf ears when it comes to concrete action.
Last week, however, was a pivotal moment, as a new law gave the US government the authority to seek to ban one of the nation's most popular apps.
So the pressing question is: Should you consider removing the app and severing ties with your online communities or revenue streams on TikTok? And in light of this development, which social media platform might be next in the government's crosshairs, and what considerations should you take into account?

TikTok Ban Was Here: What's Next?

David Lynch writes in his book Catching the Big Fish that he's never been a good writer, and he’s fond of cinema as a unifying medium where writing, camera movement, blocking, score and all these audio-visual elements come together and turn into something that didn't exist before, an immersive story. That’s why he thinks cinema is the best medium to visually manifest and decipher what’s playing inside the mysterious kinetoscope that is dreams. 

How can a filmmaker underscore the feeling of entrapment, seamless time and place transitions, and horrendous scars hiding behind the band-aid on our brains? The parts you don’t want to see disguised as an object or an event, or a person. A severed human ear or a dwarf talking in reverse speech. Movies have turned our inner darknesses into outer world species, like the boogeyman, the monster, just like dreams do. Humans are flawed species, imperfect creatures, and we exhaust ourselves trying to mask them, although our psyche has a sick and twisted side that appears as dreams and nightmares, which bring those about. David Lynch’s dreamscapes is arguably a unique art form, a visual language in itself, for that matter. Literature too, for example, has its literary devices like stream of consciousness (shout out to the master Virginia Woolf) that somewhat embodies dreaming and the floaty, mental heaviness some sort of feeling after waking up, but cinema not only embodies it but renders us passive audiences in someone else’s dream. 

After watching David Lynch, namely Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway, many audiences think they didn’t understand anything or missed something important that’s driving the whole plot, but actually, maybe, it’s not the case. This curation is the meeting point between David Lynch’s dreamscapes, transcendental meditation, and some relevant philosophy and science on dreams playing out in Lynch’s characters’ inner worlds. 

From Bob's Big Boy chapter: "There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner."

Tip: Watch/listen to/read the curation with David Lynch's The Big Dreams album. Pinned here is a Moby remix of the title track. 


David Lynch: See You in My Dreams

Psychology enthusiast, part-time therapist, full-time warrior of anxiety

Bookshelf of my library. I hope it will be infinite, all from Goodreads.
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The Infinite Bookshelf

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“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places.”

- The Travel of Art, Alain De Botton

Over the years, I’ve read a lot. Some have left the kind of impression where I utter the words as I move through the day. Especially these days, I am reading a lot from philosophers, writers, and poets about the way they see journeys.

"The Art of Travel" written by Alain De Botton, changed and shaped the way I am going to travel and transformed the way I see the journeys. 

That's why I decided to create a memory, a curation named "The Art of Travel" about travelling, discovering and finding yourself in a different place. 

Please don't forget, going on vacation and travelling it is not the same.

The Art of Travel

Let’s be real: financial freedom is a goal we all strive for, yet so many of us start off on the wrong foot. Lucky for you, we’ve curated a list of YouTube channels that are packed with insights and answers to help tackle your financial challenges.
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