Know Your World #61: Wanna get to school? Take the bike bus!

▶️ Now what on Earth is a “bike bus”? Watch this BBC report from Glasgow, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland.

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Know Your World #62: 🇮🇱Israel and 🇵🇸Palestine explained

▶️ It’s tempting to get emotional about the news these days. But as with every conflict there’s a long story to it that gets forgotten about when a conflict intensifies (=becomes stronger). Watch this explainer video by VOX to catch up on some background knowledge.

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Know Your World #63: Is friendship in crisis?

▶️ There are studies that suggest people have less friends today than they used to. Watch this talk by British-American scholar and writer Richard Reeves.

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🎉 Special Day: The History of Halloween

▶️ Whether you have any special feelings today or not, it’s worth looking into the history of Halloween as a festival that has conquered the world.

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Know Your World #64: Guns, Germs and Steel (Part 1)

▶️ This documentary from 2005 is a real classic. It tries to answer the question why Europeans, and more broadly Westerners, have dominated the globe for so long. Watch Part 2 here.

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Know Your World #65: Central Asia’s new alliances

▶️ Read this recent article from the Economist about the Stan countries’ foreign policy outlook for the coming years.

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Know Your World #66: All major religions in 10 minutes

▶️ Here’s a pretty concise (=short but informative) overview of the world’s religions. Check out their basic beliefs, in the name of world peace!

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Know Your World #67: The Great Global Warming Swindle

▶️ Here’s a 2007 British documentary that claims global warming is a swindle (=cheating). The term “global warming” has since been abandoned in favour of the more universal “climate change”. It’s been heavily criticised for going against mainstream science.

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Know Your World #68: AI can do your homework. Now what?

▶️ Should students be allowed to use AI? Here’s how the world of homework is changing. Good food for thought!

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🎉 Special Day: The #1 classical New Year song

▶️ Auld Lang Syne is a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish song that is rivaled (=challenged) only by ABBA’s Happy New Year. Check out the story behind it.

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🎊 And Happy New Year, everyone! Look forward to Afandi English nourishing (=feeding) your hungry mind in 2024.

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