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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HslUzw35mc - link to the video     The video goes around a topic of homepathy. Firstly, the speaker explains what homeopathy actually is. It's an alternative way of treatment, which bases around the placebo effect. Homeopathic "medicines" are made of mostly water and contain extremely small amount of ingredients that are usually not even proved to have any healing capabillities. Yet, somehow it has got to be the most popular alternative treatment and in many cases helped, where normal medicine failed. That shows us how big of a thing, the placebo effect is and how much  just pure belief in one thing can change. The video also suggests what normal medicine could learn from homeopathy, is that it should start looking at patients as individual beings, not just numbers. Words I didn't know: to dissolve - Shake the vial gently to dissolve the powder, avoiding foaming. dilution - The extreme dilution is supposed to make the i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmM6SUn7Es - link to the video.     The authors of the video ask a question, wheter organic food is truly better than conventional food. To answer the question they break it into 2 smaller questions: is organic food healthier and is it better for the environment? The evidence about the organic food being healthier is mixed, but overall, there are only small differences in nutritional value, so the health benefits of the organic food aren't very sigificant. When it comes to the impact on environment, organic food takes more land to produce, while more ecotoxicity comes from the production of conventional food. In the authors' opinion these results show, that conventional food actually has slightly smaller impact on the environment. In conclusion it's more important what you eat, than how it was produced. Words, I didn't know: noble - The motivation to buy organic food is clearly noble . on the fence - Scientists are still on t

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    For all the years in school, I had this big problem, that on the tests from some subjects, especially maths, I could pretty much never finish the test in time, which resulted in not doing tasks that I usually would be I able to do, if I had just a little more time. Nowadays I stil have this problem and it came to the point, that on the math tests I lose at least about 20-25% points because I can't make it in time and usually I would be able to do these tasks if I had more time. It leads to a reflection, why does the school put such emphasis on our timing? Is the time so important? Isn't knowledge enough?

    I  think this tendency has many causes that are very situational for a certain country or region, but in a lot of these situations you can say, that it is because the left side governments failed their people at some point. The "Bolsonaro situation" is an example of that, but it can also be compared to Polish situation (although on a much lower level of radicality), where the more liberal government was considered by a big part of the society to be thieves who do nothing and take money for it and so the more radical right wing party was elected. Also these radical politicans (as example Bolsonero or Trump) are oftenly persons with charisma and power and they are capable of doing radical changes without hesitation, which for a big part of societies of the countries that aren't doing well is what they need, because it gives them hope for a better future.

    Few days ago there were elections to local governments in Poland. The thing that really made me concerned was the frequency of people who voted. It was just 52,15% and it was actually the best score since the fall of communism in Poland. It truly bothers me why just a half of the country goes to vote and I wonder what could be a reason for the other half not to go there. I mean, are there SO many people who don't care about the welfare of their country? I know that for some people neither of candidates meets their expectations, but I think at least voting on the "less evil" is better than not voting. I think not voting is kind of an ignorant attitude. And for example in Spain or Germany the average frequencies are above 70% and I wonder what makes their frequencies so much better than ours. Is Poland a society of ignorants?