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The five most (in)famous World Cup penalty shootouts

Of the 30 penalty shootouts in a World Cup, only twice has the World Cup final itself come down to it (1994 and 2006).

Al Jazeera

Commentary: I have months to live. Here’s how I’ve embraced acceptance

“You have many months to live,” my palliative care doctor told me recently. She must’ve thought that was more polite than saying “less than a year.” I have finally advanced to the stage predicted by my oncologist, who said seven years ago, “I’m thinking years, not months.”

Chicago Tribune

Review: 'Which Side Are You On,' by Ryan Lee Wong

FICTION: An idealistic college student plans to drop out to focus on community organizing, while his old-school Asian activist parents try to dissuade him.

Tribune News Service

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The jury that asked the spirit world for a verdict – and other bizarre tales from the courtroom

Criminal justice systems vary around the world. But in many countries, for hundreds of years, people have faced trial by a jury of their peers. In England and Wales, a jury is a group of 12 members of the public who are called to sit as judges of fact in…

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Brazil's top footballers lean toward Bolsonaro in polarized race

A few days before Brazil's first round of voting in this month's general election, a 13-second TikTok video electrified supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro: soccer star Neymar coming out in favor of his re-election bid.

Reuters

Explainer: Socrates and the life worth living

Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings. His life and death would go on to shape the history of Western thought.

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What is love? In pop culture, love is often depicted as a willingness to sacrifice, but ancient philosophers took a different view

Woven through Thor: Love and Thunder, Taika Waititi’s latest contribution to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a sentimental and age-old commentary on mortality and love.

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Electoral victory cannot legitimise everything that the government does, says former SC judge Chelameswar

“If people do not stand up and fight for their lives and liberties, no document, no Constitution can save their lives and liberties”

The Hindu

Singapore executions under scrutiny as more hanged for drugs

Questions being asked over speed of executions, legal representation, and the ethnicities of the condemned.

Al Jazeera

Socrates and Plato matter far too much to be left just to Britain’s elite

My favourite subject at school was Philosophy. I loved it because it showed me that many of the questions I lazily pondered at night — such as why we should do right over wrong, and how we know who we are — have been vigorously debated for thousands of years.…

Evening Standard

Slippery Slope Arguments in History: Socrates

From the Phaedrus dialogue: Socrates…. Where is deception most likely to occur—regarding things that differ much or things that differ little from one another? Phaedrus. Regarding those that differ little. Socrates. At any rate, you are more likely to escape detection, as you shift from one thing to its opposite,…

Reason

Cancelling Socrates review – Howard Brenton interrogates democracy in a rich play of ideas

Fine acting and lively dialogue save this philosophical play from feeling static as it applies Athenian ideals to modern dilemmas

The Guardian - UK

Cancelling Socrates: how the great philosopher sealed his fate with comedy

Playwright Howard Brenton asks why ancient Athens turned on its famous citizen, and how such an uncompromising free-thinker might fare in our own ‘age of rage’

The Guardian - UK

Whataboutism: what it is and why it's such a popular tactic in arguments

Whataboutism is an argumentative tactic where a person or group responds to an accusation or difficult question by deflection. Instead of addressing the point made, they counter it with “but what about X?”.

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