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Does the cult of warrior spirit strengthen an army, or does it lead to strategic chaos? A martial arts historian reads the ideas of the US Secretary of Defense through a medieval lens. By Maciej Talaga The United States entered its confrontation with Iran with an overwhelming technological advantage, the
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People on the Spectrum Often Mask Their Neurodivergence. What Price Do They Pay? Masking is not an occasionally used tool but a constant effort aimed at surviving in a world created by and for the neurotypical majority. By Jędrzej Grodniewicz and Anna Urbanek Imagine you receive an invitation to an
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Digital tools are causing us to do more and more things without thinking. We become passive and exhausted — outrightly done-to-death by convenience. But this process can be reversed. By Olga Drenda Michał was born in the early 1980s. At school he was good at orienteering. He could calculate
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Sociologists asked about the reasons why Poles are giving up religious practice. By Piotr Sikora It is already an obvious fact that secularization in Poland is accelerating. It is worth understanding its causes, however. An important contribution to that understanding comes from CBOS research whose results were published at the
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Media attention focuses on the Church's crisis and accelerating secularization. But many young people still find their spiritual home in Catholicism. By Piotr Sikora "Faith is above all a decision. From the moment of that decision, my conscious faith began. Faith is trust arising from experiencing God
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Life alone has become easier and more convenient than ever. Large corporations have built an entire business model around it. By Jakub Dymek There is one thing that the internet — as it forced its way into our lives in the first decade of the 21st century — promised above all else.
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We stand on the threshold of another AI revolution. Growing lonelier, we reach for the illusion of closeness in the digital world. By Agata Kaźmierska At first, the only noticeable change was that 14-year-old Sewell lost interest in things that had previously excited him, like Formula 1 racing
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DAVID REMNICK, editor-in-chief of The New Yorker: “I’d sooner jump out a window than let The New Yorker go dumb. I’m enormously lucky, because my owner thinks the same way. There are readers who appreciate that. Maybe there aren’t 300 million of them, but a