Posts tagged Racism
Coarse and Curly
Coarse and Curly

Hair: A weird thing humans have weaponized, leverages, and used many culturally unique and important ways. There's actually a million things to say about this, but we took on the race angle in this conversation. This is a very brief history about afro-textured hair; when the racism and discrimination started, how far it has came, and how much more education and understanding we need.

Recommendations:
Abraham: Turning Red (movie: https://movies.disney.com/turning-red)
Shane: Stranger Things Season 4 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80057281)

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GeneticsWWDWWDAbraham, Shanebraham, Abortion, Discrimination, Racism, African American, Black People, Dark Hair, Hair, AfroComment
236 | Don't You D.A.R.E.
236 | Don't You D.A.R.E.

Drugs. The single greatest threat that humankind has ever faced… according to Nancy Reagan. Politicians and depots have known for a long time that fear can unite a people. In the 1980s, stoking fear about and going to “war” with drugs gave the sheeple a common enemy to fear and stoked good fear for their warrior politicians. One of the ill-begotten ideas sprung forth was the D.A.R.E. program. This program was specifically ideological and eschewed empirical evidence. As such, this programs hemorrhaged money for years until it was finally abandoned. Learn about about the rise and epic fall of the D.A.R.E. program and share your D.A.R.E. stories with us!

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Children, Human Bias, Psychological History, Social ScienceWWDWWDAbraham, Shane, Shane Spiker, Shanebraham, Drugs, Psychedelics, Devil's Lettuce, Lettuce Head, Eternals, Chocolate Truffles, Reagan, War on drugs, Classism, Racism, D.A.R.E., PoliceComment
234 | Poisoned
234 | Poisoned

Don’t poison yourself. Some people do and they do it on purpose, but not to die. In fact, they do it to prevent an early death. This practice is called Mithridatism, named for the legend of Mithridates the King of Pontus who took small doses of poison to prevent assassination attempts. One of our early chemists, Mithridates’ scientific work lives on today. In fact, the theme of Mithridatism is commonplace today in many things that we do.

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Liesure, The Brain, PhilosophyWWDWWDAbraham, Shane, Shane Spiker, Shanebraham, Poisoning, Poisoned, Self-poisoning, poison, mithridatism, Mithridates, Pontus, Rome, Sexism, Racism, Microdosing FearComment