Today I Learned
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The world is in debt, but who are we in debt to? Pro-wrestling is fake, so why do we love it? These are the kinds of discussions we have on Today I Learned -- a weekly show exploring a plethora of topics, to satisfy your curious mind!
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What’s All The Buzz About Bees?
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May 18, 2026 |
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What is Tekat?
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May 11, 2026 |
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Strait of Hormuz: Why This Narrow Waterway Matters to the World
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May 04, 2026 |
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What is a Recession, Really?
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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How to Prepare for Doomsday (and Other Emergencies)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Why is Philosophy Important?
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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The Disposable Agents of Moscow
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Ballet in The Modern Age
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Why Malaysians Love Adibah Amin
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Why Are Women-Only Spaces Still Important?
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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What Stories Lie in The Forgotten Valley of Wang Kelian?
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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A Skeptic’s Take on the Epstein Files
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Who Will Win the Cyberwar?
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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How To Be Better At Money
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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How To Smoke The Last Cigarette of Your Life
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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How Can I Sleep Better?
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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How To Make Friends
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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How To Survive Family Conflict (Holiday Edition)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Who Are The Palestinian Christians?
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Are Humans Fundamentally Individualistic or Collectivistic?
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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What If We Reimagine Food Through Chemistry?
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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What The World Looks Like Through A Child’s Eyes
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Why Should We Dance?
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Why Study the Media?
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Why Should We Care About the ASEAN Summit?
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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What is Digital Sovereignty?
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Do Our Bodies Feel at Home in Space?
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Understanding Our Role In The Planet’s Health
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Can Our Laws Stop Bullying?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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The Shadow of the Cultural Cold War
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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What Makes A Nation, A Nation?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Who Will Be the Next Dalai Lama… And Why Is It So Political?
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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80 Years On, Have the Hibakusha Received Justice?
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Is Breakfast a Scam?!
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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How Colonial Violence Shaped the World’s Greatest Museums
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How Is Warfare Changing?
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Should We Worry About Fewer Babies?
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Why Are People Going Crazy Over Labubus?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Is Chasing Happiness Making You Unhappy?
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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How Can We Better Understand the Conflict in Kashmir?
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Do You Parent The Same Way Your Father Did?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Being Someone Else’s Voice, With Sign Language
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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You’re Having an Existential Crisis... Now What?
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May 26, 2025 |
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What is the Real History of Tea?
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May 19, 2025 |
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Should (And Could) We Eradicate Mosquitoes?
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May 05, 2025 |
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How Will The Next Pope Be Elected?
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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How to Cultivate Creativity in Arts and Science
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Are There Serial Killers in Malaysia?
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Tariffs 101
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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How to Argue Against Conspiracies (Without Losing Your Mind)
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Can DEI Be Done Right?
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Crypto: The Good, The Bad, and The Blockchain
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Can Fasting Prevent Diseases and Delay Ageing?
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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All You Need to Know About Timor-Leste
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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What Is The Chingay Parade All About?
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Batu Caves: A Treasure Trove of Biodiversity
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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New Year, New Skills
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Celebrating Chinese New Year in a Modern World
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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How Will Trump 2.0 Change America?
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Creating A Sustainable Fitness Regime: How To Start Strong and Stay Strong
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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How Do I Make Vegan Food Taste Good?
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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What is the Mediterranean Diet?
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Why Do I Hate Hearing My Own Voice?
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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What Makes Art, 'Art'?
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Why We Should Learn to Take a Pause
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Flushing Out The Truth In Our Public Toilets
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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What Ancient India Gave The World
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Navigating The Political Divide
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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What is Deepavali?
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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How Do I Prepare My Autistic Child For Employment?
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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ASEAN for Beginners: What It Is and Why It Matters
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Seniors, Live Out Your Best Lives
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Why Tears Spread: Stigma, Culture, and Emotional Responses
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Why Can’t I Regenerate?
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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The Ultimate Guide On Where To Learn About Sex
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Who Was Our Bapa Merdeka?
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Could Planet of the Apes Actually Happen?
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Can We Combine Our Languages Into One?
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Understanding Our Indigenous People
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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What Happens If There Are No More Malayan Tigers In The Wild?
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Do Video Games Cause Brain Rot?
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Do Emojis Make It Harder for People to Understand Me?
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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How Can I Avoid Raising a Brat?
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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How to Write Creatively
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May 26, 2024 |
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Why Do We Take Turns When Interacting?
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May 19, 2024 |
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Why Do People Self-Sabotage?
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May 12, 2024 |
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The Importance of Hope!
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May 05, 2024 |
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Why Do We Celebrate Labour Day?
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Does Your Mind Keep Dwelling on Worst-Case Scenarios?
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Scam Spotting 101
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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How Does the Placebo Effect Work?
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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How Do Languages Form and Evolve?
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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What Exactly is Bank Negara Malaysia?
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Is Malaysia Happy?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Striving For Perfection vs Healthy Striving
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Can Language Shape Emotions?
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Why Self-Love is Important in Healthy Relationships
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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How Does Memory Shape Perception?
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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What is Overnight Policy Rate (OPR)?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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What’s Your Personality?
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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How to Find Your Voice As a Writer?
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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How to Be Content in 2024?
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Bahasa Malaysia is In Our Blood
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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The Uncomfortable Feeling When Confronting Information That Contradicts Your Beliefs
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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How to Survive Long Distance Relationships
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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How Does the Ringgit Become Stronger or Weaker?
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Is the Pursuit of Happiness a Meaningful Goal?
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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What Does Global Privacy Laws Say About Data Protection?
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Ikigai: How To Discover What Gives Your Life Meaning
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Are People Inherently Selfless or Selfish?
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Palestine Fights Back!
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Ponzi Schemes & Pyramid Scams
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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How Language Shapes Identity
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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What is Fiscal Policy?
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Separating the Attorney General & Public Prosecutor
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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15-Minute Learnings on BFM's 15th Birthday
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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The Psychology of Online Dating
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Why is Freedom of Expression Important?
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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What is GDP, Exactly?
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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We All Die in the End … So?
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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What is Money Laundering?
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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The Dos and Don’ts of War
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Tax The Rich. Who’s The Rich?
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Why Intersectionality is Important
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Why Do I Get Angry?
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Who Am I?
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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What Are Love Languages?
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May 28, 2023 |
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How Will Technology Impact Unemployment?
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May 21, 2023 |
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Why Do Wars Happen?
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May 07, 2023 |
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Pufferfish: Deathly or Delicacy
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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How Criminals Use Cryptocurrencies to Fund Their Operations
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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What Are War Crimes?
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Ghosting: Disappearing Without a Trace is Harmful
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Unpacking the Malaysian-Indian Identity
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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The Power of Knowing Yourself: What is Self Awareness?
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Not a Budaya Barat: An Overview of Feminism in Southeast Asia
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Here’s What You Need to Know About the Israel-Palestine Conflict
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Is Nepotism Immoral?
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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How to Persuade and Influence
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Why Are Wages in Malaysia So Low?
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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How Will ChatGPT Change the World?
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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What Can Ancient Greek’s Perception of Time Teach Us About Thinking?
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Anatomy of Failure
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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What Is Love?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Setting New Year’s Resolutions the Right Way
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Anwar Ibrahim: Student Activist, Prisoner, Prime Minister
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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What Changed After GE14?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Overcoming Political Apathy: Remaining Hopeful in Times of Turmoil
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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GE15 - Everything You Need to Know as a Voter
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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How to Be a Good Listener
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Women, Life, Freedom: Iran Uprising Explained
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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The War on Drugs Has Been a Failure
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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How to Consume News and Maintain Sanity?
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Nobody is Self-Made: Why Dependency is Not a Sign of Weakness
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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101 on CBT & Money Laundering
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Myths & Facts on the Malaysian Social Contract
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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101 on the RM 9 Billion Littoral Combat Ship Scandal
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Is My Workplace Toxic or Am I?
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Reflecting on Shinzo Abe’s Death One Month On
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Anti Sexual Harassment Bill - From Conception to Parliament
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Musk & Twitter: The Saga Continues
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Why Do We Feel Shy?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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What’s Up With China: Chinese Socialism vs Capitalism
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Julian Assange Saga Explained
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee?
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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What on Earth is Inflation (and Recession)?
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial Explained
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Can Money Buy Happiness?
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May 31, 2022 |
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Why the Philippines Elected Cruel Dictator’s Son as President
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May 24, 2022 |
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What is Rape Culture?
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May 17, 2022 |
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How Billionaire-Owned Social Media Sites Hurt Free Speech & Democracy
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May 10, 2022 |
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Busting Common Myths on Healthy Eating
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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How Mamak Restaurants Represent & Promote Social Cohesion
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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History and Significance of Wrestlemania
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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What Exactly is Happiness?
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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What Exactly Are Economic Sanctions?
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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How Do Parties Win Elections Without Getting Majority of the Votes?
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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IWD 2022: Busting Myths About Feminism
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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101 on Russian-Ukraine Conflict
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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How to Get Over a Breakup?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Everything You Need to Know About Sexual Consent
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The Myth of the Malaysian Indian Alcoholics & Gangsters
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Why Are Breakups So Difficult?
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Pro-Wrestling is Fake. So Why Do We Love It?
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Best of 2021: Political Economy & More
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Best of TIL Part 1: Fun Things We Learned in 2021
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Is Marriage Anti-Feminist?
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Why Are People Xenophobic?
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Is the US Media System Broken?
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Germany, The Left & Elections
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Millennials Can’t Afford to Buy a House - What’s the Solution?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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What is Colourism?
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Should Malaysia Legalise Medical Cannabis?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Young People Are Suffering. Is Socialism the Solution?
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Young People Are Suffering. Is Socialism the Solution?
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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How the US Ended Up With Two Right-Wing Parties?
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Flowers & Vulvas: Why Open Conversations About Sex & Our Bodies Are Important
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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The Ideologies of Political Parties in East Malaysia
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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The Ideologies of Political Parties in West Malaysia
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Making Sense of Malaysia’s Economy
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Making Sense of Malaysia’s Economy
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Why Does Absolute Power Corrupt Absolutely?
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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How Language Shapes Thought
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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How Harry Potter Shaped Culture
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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How Harry Potter Shaped Culture
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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What is “Failed State,” and is Malaysia on the Road to Becoming One?
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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How We’re Still Colonised
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Left Wing, Right Wing, Centrists & Moderates
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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What is Juneteenth?
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Why Do We Swear?
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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What is Patriarchy? And How Does it Hurt Women & Men?
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Introverts: Antisocial or Misunderstood?
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Communism vs Socialism vs Capitalism vs Democratic Socialism
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May 25, 2021 |
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Communism vs Socialism vs Capitalism vs Democratic Socialism
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May 25, 2021 |
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The World Is In Debt. But Who Do We Owe Money To?
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May 18, 2021 |
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Why Are People Racist?
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May 11, 2021 |
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What Is Feminism? And Why Do Some See It as a Dirty Word?
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May 04, 2021 |