You can often hear that the body does not need sugar at all, and only harm from it. They say it causes cancer, diabetes, tooth decay, and makes children hyperactive. Which of these is true and which is myth?
Complete and complete ignorance of their own history by the broad masses of the population - white, black and colored - is a great achievement of the American educational system of the twentieth century. It turned ideologically framed myths about slavery and slavery into an excellent fuel for fueling revolutionary protests in the United States, for riots and robberies, as well as for disgusting scenes of humiliation of human dignity on the basis of race
Philosophy seems to have existed ever since man learned to be aware of himself and the surrounding reality. But why is it needed? There are physics, biology and chemistry that explain the laws of nature. There is literature and history that immerse us in a completely new context. What does philosophy do? And, most importantly, how can it be useful to a modern person?
The underworld is trying to control many segments of social life: according to experts, part of the business, state-owned enterprises and banks in Russia are under the control of organized crime. Is society able to oppose something to this universal evil?
The author of How We Learn, Stanislas Dean, outlined the four pillars of learning. These include attention, active engagement, feedback, and consolidation. We reread the book and went into more detail about these features and what helps to strengthen them
Everyone likes to believe that they are rational and reasonable in actions and words. However, he is not always able to clearly and objectively see himself from the outside. Not everyone can accept arguments against themselves and, as practice shows, at such moments we behave irrationally
In any discussion of Russian problems, the opposing side almost always asks the same question - what are we doing in Syria? This is a hint that we, like the USSR, have gotten into other people's affairs and are again spending money on foreign countries, but our people are "malnourished"
More than 400 thousand of yesterday's students are at risk of not finding a job due to the pandemic. Business is in no hurry to get up from its knees, and experts say it will be difficult for everyone
The official resources of the Moscow mayor's office once again "made happy" the residents of the capital of the so-called. "Indulgences" designed to soften the continuing vague "high alert" regime, and of course the "self-isolation regime". Mr S.S. Sobyanin graciously allowed citizens to leave their homes for walks - no more than three times a week
Most people cannot read, most do not even really know why they are reading. Some consider reading to be mostly a laborious but inevitable path to "education," and for all their erudition, these people will at best become an "educated" public. Others see reading as an easy pleasure, a way to kill time, in fact, they do not care what to read
Virtuality - a fictional, imaginary object, subject, category, action not present in the real world, but created by the play of imagination
Psychologist Olga Gulevich on the effect of stereotypical threat, gender and racial stereotypes
Pindos, Fritzes, Ukrainians, khachi, lumps are offensive nicknames of foreigners, known to every resident of Russia. However, what do foreigners themselves call Russians?
Before man began to create medicines in laboratories, nature itself served as the world's "pharmacy". People of different cultures and nationalities have collected and specially grown certain plants for centuries to treat various ailments. Today, despite the fact that many products still contain medicinal herbs, many people are skeptical about traditional medicine
IS IT POSSIBLE TO REPLACE MODERN HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS WHEN CLEANING IN THE HOUSE WITH ECOLOGICALLY CLEANING AND NATURAL DETERGENTS?
Wood tar is a product of dry distillation of the bark
If the world is not careful, renewables can become as destructive as fossil fuels
Fraud on an especially large scale in the amount of 129 million rubles in the Seventh Studio case has been proven. The court found that Serebrennikov himself was in charge of the general management of the "criminal scheme" of stealing money allocated by the state for the Platform project. And two producers, Itin and Malobrodsky, prepared overstated funding requests and helped steal money
At the very beginning of 2020, the state organizer of the Stoloto lotteries announced a record win in the history of the country - 1 billion rubles. This fantastic amount has already seriously stirred up the sales of lottery tickets - all the latest editions are being sold out. Why are there questions about winning a record, how is money distributed in this business and how big is the chance of getting rich by winning the lottery?
In Germany, they conducted a study and found out the degree of influence of criminal clans
Moscow. December 23rd. The Pushkinsky District Court of St. Petersburg has announced the verdict against the former rector of the St. Petersburg State Agrarian University
Let's talk about four experiments in which a person was perceived as a guinea pig. But be warned - this text may sound unpleasant
MEP from Latvia Tatyana Zhdanok demanded that the country's authorities open a criminal case against the politician and director Raivis Dzintars, who shot a documentary film glorifying the "exploits" of Latvian legionaries "Waffen SS"
Soviet soldiers pulled 15 American, 5 British, 8 Dutch and 33 Belgian generals out of concentration camps, as well as the former Prime Minister of France and the commander of the Norwegian army, Captain I Rank Valery Novikov reminds readers of the IA Realist. Who remembers this today?
The benefits of regular exercise are well known and beyond question. Constant exercise can help improve health, slow aging, and prevent type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. However, the mechanisms underlying all these miraculous effects are still poorly understood and are of great interest to scientists
The future always beckons with its uncertainty. And as Pushkin wrote, "the human mind … is not a prophet, but a guesser, it sees the general course of things and can deduce from it deep assumptions, often justified by time …"
Glazed curds from dubious raw materials are especially harmful
Suppose a hypothetical situation: we live on an island without connections with the outside world, and we grow corn, which we eat. And we grow it badly - that's why we eat badly
Many people are convinced that modern technologies will change schools and universities beyond recognition. Education will move online, students on the Internet will listen to lectures by the best professors of the planet, history will be replaced by the game "Civilization", instead of textbooks and notebooks there will be tablets, the classroom system will give way to an individual approach to the student, and each of them will be able to form a curriculum for themselves based on from desires, possibilities and needs
The current food system can only feed 3.4 billion people, according to newscientist.com. In the event that a person does not go beyond the planetary boundaries, most of the world's population is threatened with a shortage of food
In Russia, it seems, there is a giant network of resellers of drugs supplied to medical institutions and already paid for from the budget
A jury in the American city of West Palm Beach had to consider an unusual case. The killer claimed that he had committed the crime in a dream and did not remember anything about what happened. Should you believe him? Or is he cheating to avoid punishment? "Lenta.ru" studied the history of the murderers-somnambulists and found out how that process ended
Olga is just a citizen of the world: a girl was born in Moscow, traveled a lot with her parents since childhood, lived a little both in Finland and Hungary, and then married a Frenchman and moved to Great Britain, where she has been living for the last seven years. Olga, as you know, can tell a lot about the differences between countries
How long have you seen people in our national costumes on the street? Have you ever seen it? From a certain point, we have artificially created an incredible demand for foreign clothes, and for a lot of money. Who needed it?
Depending on who you talk to, Facebook will be considered either the savior or the killer of modern journalism. About 600 million people watch news stories on Facebook every week, and the founder of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg, does not even hide his plans to dominate the digital news distribution
Today the problems of cyber defense have become aggravated in society. The level of crime related to identity theft is increasing from year to year in all countries of the world. Sometimes it seems that it is impossible to defend against hackers. But in reality this is far from the case. Here are five very simple but useful tips to add a couple of points to your level of online security
Recently, a trend has appeared in the information field, which is supported by many talkers and writers, admins of groups in social networks, which can be expressed in the following terms: "a digital concentration camp is coming, total chipping and similar slogans." These statements did not appear from scratch
There are many white spots in the history of mankind, or vice versa, events that still cannot be explained by official science. Therefore, in pursuit of sensations, enterprising businessmen often go for the falsification of historical relics and masterpieces of art. And sometimes they turn out to be so high-quality and successful that they continue to believe in their authenticity even after being exposed
Heroin, mercury, bleeding and surgery that transform patients into apathetic zombies. The Swedish Illustrerad Vetenskap offers a peek into the horrific archive of medicine. Here are ten of the biggest mistakes doctors made from antiquity to the 20th century - and only one of them brought pleasure, not suffering
It is difficult to argue with the fact that what has been happening for almost twenty years with the culture of our country cannot be called anything other than destruction. One gets the impression that a monstrous experiment is being carried out on the peoples of Russia