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Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

Whether it started on accident, was part of a specific campaign, or originated in Greece , this meme seemed to really have legs! This is for a campaign against violence on children.&# Most of my Facebook friends had jumped on the bandwagon by Saturday night, as you can see by the screen shot below collected from my news feed.

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Ancient Greece 2.0: Arts Participation before the Industrial Age

Museum 2.0

Proper audiences were like docile children, seen and not heard. Arts institutions began publishing instructive placards and documents to train audiences to behave more formally and to treat artists and artworks with silent respect.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

It’s extremely difficult to change the things we internalize as children. With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness. Once in the system, it was all about avoiding failure.

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

Children go door to door dressed as an angel reciting verses from the bible story and opening piñatas filled with presents and candies. Nick arrives on the eve of December 5, with children waking up with presents the next morning. This festival is a little like a Christmas version of trick or treating.

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Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech

TechCrunch

We see historic fires in Greece, Portugal and North America’s entire West Coast ; epic floods in Germany ; devastating tornadoes in historically temperate geographies such as the Czech Republic ; record-breaking hurricanes in the Caribbean and Philippines; drought in Syria that ultimately led to civil war; destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

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Best movies by women creators on Netflix

Mashable Tech

Do all moms find fulfillment in their children? Olivia Colman is awkwardly enthralling as Leda, a middle-aged woman on a solo vacation in Greece who finds herself drawn to a young mother, Nina (Dakota Johnson), who is staying at the same resort.

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