Weight of the world is killing us
While modern science and medicine offer us more opportunities to live longer and healthier lives, modern lifestyle – our diet (both quality and quantity), lack of exercise, stress and other …
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The Mystery of African COVID
“New York Post” sets up the mystery: The novel coronavirus has infected more than 26.35 million people, with just four countries accounting for over 15 million cases. They are America, Brazil, …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 7: The Finale
It’s been a great journey discovering the wise, the weird and the wonderful folk sayings from all parts of the world. You can check the previous six posts at your …
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Terror doesn’t sleep
Back in mid-March, in one of those “irony of ironies” moments, ISIS has issued a travel advisory to its members not to travel to Europe: “stay away from the land of …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 6
Distract yourself from COVID 24/7 and enjoy some wisdom of the ages from all corners of the world. Coincidentally, when proverbs and folk sayings were coming into being, life really …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 5
With Coronavirus 24/7 and the world turned upside down indefinitely, wherever you are in self-isolation, make yourself some tea, sit down and enjoy the wisdom of the ages from different …
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How dare he!
It seems like Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali stole even more of Greta Thunberg’s childhood by winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, beating the 16-year old Swedish Apocalyptic who seemed …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 3
Dedicated to my uncle Stanislaw from Lodz, Poland, who is the biggest fan of the series so far. Nevertheless, I hope that all of you will find something insightful and …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 2
I won’t lie and say that “The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World” are back by popular demand. Unlike the still often remarked upon and secretly missed “Girls …
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Low CO2 killed the megafauna star
As with the present day fauna and flora extinctions, humans have been traditionally blamed for the extinction events over the past several tens of thousands of years. Maybe not so …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World
Oh Germany, really? As the Russians say, “proverbs are the coins of the people” – and they should know, as both Tsarism and communism ensured the people didn’t have too …
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Can you draw as well as the oldest humans?
The oldest yet drawing by a modern human has been discovered in South Africa and it’s more than 30,000 years older than the previous oldest ones in Spain and Indonesia: …
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Victoria doesn’t have a gang problem; it has a policing problem
Another mass riot in Melbourne, another official “meh”; Victoria Police top brass are reeling from deepening criticism that their no-arrest policy is failing to tame teen gangs following a violent …
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Go West, young Waleed, go West
There is no African gang violence problem in Melbourne. I repeat, there is no African gang violence problem in Melbourne: Residents have told of their terror as up to 100 rampaging …
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Worried about gang crime? Depends where you live
Sick and tired of constant “nailing it”, two weeks ago the Golden Logie winner Waleed Aly instead “slammed” Malcolm Turnbull and took “a savage swipe at politicians” over the issue …
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Reuters Reuters on the wall, which countries are the worst for women of them all?
This is more than just stupid, it’s actually obscene: A 2018 survey… conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation found India to be the most dangerous country in the world for women. Afghanistan and …
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