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Hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested this weekend to demand a ceasefire following the deaths of six more hostages in Gaza, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to reject the terms of a deal that would remove Israeli troops from southern Gaza. This comes after nearly 11 months of Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed over 40,000 Palestinians in the territory, according to local health authorities. “Our politicians won’t listen to anything, because they’re driven out of self-interest,” says Israeli peace activist Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother ... continua

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A closely watched civil trial that began in North Dakota last week could bankrupt Greenpeace and chill environmental activism as the climate crisis continues to deepen. The multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer, the oil corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, claims Greenpeace organized the mass protests and encampment at Standing Rock between 2016 and 2017 aimed at stopping construction of the project. Although the uprising at Standing Rock was led by Indigenous water defenders, Energy Transfer is instead going after Greenpeace for $300 million in ... continua

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We host a roundtable the morning after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, just five days after surviving an assassination attempt, delivering the longest acceptance speech in convention history. Trump began with a somber recounting of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a bullet grazed his right ear, and soon went off script to deliver a rambling diatribe against various political enemies and repeatedly demonized immigrants. “The first three or four days of the convention were pitched as a display of unity,” says ... continua

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Questa storia riguarda i vestiti che indossiamo, le persone che li realizzano e l'impatto che l'industria sta avendo sul nostro mondo. Il prezzo dell'abbigliamento è in calo da decenni, mentre i costi umani e ambientali sono cresciuti notevolmente. The True Cost è un film documentario rivoluzionario che alza il sipario su ciò che molti non conoscono, mettendoci davanti ad una domanda: chi paga davvero il prezzo per i nostri vestiti?

Can we tell true memories from false ones? For decades, Elisabeth Loftus has studied how memories of events that never happened are formed, and she has invented techniques to create them from scratch. But false memories have real consequences, and can change how we think and behave. What do these false memories tell us about the nature of memory itself? Speaker: Elizabeth Loftus, University of California, Irvine Moderates: Nicola Quadri, BergamoScienza Association Special thanks to Vita-Salute San Raffaele Università of Milano

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