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William Shatner to Be Oldest Astronaut at 90 – Here’s How Space Tourism Could Affect Older People

Nick Caplan Christopher Newman Northumbria University, Newcastle Nick graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2005 with a PhD in Biomechanics. He subsequently joined Northumbria University where he is now Professor of Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Director of Postgraduate Research for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Christopher

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COVID-19 Could Nudge Minds and Societies Towards Authoritarianism

COVID-19 Could Nudge Minds and Societies Towards Authoritarianism

Leor Zmigrod University of Cambridge Leor Zmigrod’s research aims to combine experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study the psychological processes that underlie ideology adherence and group identity formation. It is a little-known fact that humans have not one but two immune systems. The first, the biophysical immune

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Becroft Wants to Soften the Softest Soft Youth Justice System

Becroft Wants to Soften the Softest Soft Youth Justice System

Darroch Ball Co-leader Sensible Sentencing Trust The outgoing Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft wants to get rid of Youth Justice Residences. That old chestnut. It seems he is suffering from the same condition he was afflicted with a couple of weeks ago when he wanted spit-hoods abolished for

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A Request from the Moderation Team

A Request from the Moderation Team

HR Hi everyone. The BFD is humming even more than usual with 1.7 million or so people being in lockdown until recently and highly likely to be locked down again. The hot topics are, of course, covid, the government and the media. Emotions are high and commenters obviously want

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A Ray of Light Shines into the Dystopia

Angus Aardvark We see that the government has attributed Maori “Vaccine Hesitancy” to the residue of centuries of colonialism leading to a distrust of the government. How convenient for those who view everything through the lens of race. In reality, distrust of the government is the inevitable result of several

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COVID Is the Health of the New Zealand State

COVID Is the Health of the New Zealand State

Joanna Pennyfeather “War is the health of the state”, declared Randolph Bourne in his essay The State, written during the First World War. The central thesis of the essay is that the state thrives during conflict. Crises and conflicts are the food that fuels the growth of the state, which

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My Line in the Sand

My Line in the Sand

Scott Kennedy Guest post on sojournal.co.nz I am not an emotional person. In the last 20 years of life, I believe I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I have wept. Not that I think this is a virtue, it just seems part of

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Europe’s Delusional ‘Green Energy’ Disasters

Europe’s Delusional ‘Green Energy’ Disasters

Larry Bell cfact.org CFACT Advisor Larry Bell heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of “Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax.” Europe’s

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The Great New Normal Purge

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org So, the Great New Normal Purge has begun … right on cue, right by the numbers. As we “paranoid conspiracy theorists” have been warning would happen for the past 18 months, people who refuse to convert to the new official ideology are now being segregated, stripped of

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Vaccine Mandates Twist COVID-19 Saga

Vaccine Mandates Twist COVID-19 Saga

covidplanb.co.nz The most recent twist in the covid-19 saga is forcing hard-working New Zealanders to believe in the story of the ‘deadly virus’ and ‘saviour’ vaccine. This will inevitably mean many will now be forced to choose between their jobs and their sense of autonomy over

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