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Scotland Demands Referendum: Britain’s United Kingdom Falling Apart?

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 6, 20220

Scotland is a very proud part of the United Kingdom. They were annexed in 1652 by the English and have been part of England in the post-colonial United Kingdom. Today, the people of Scotland have been at odds with the British due to the control, dictation and administration London has over Edinburgh. Hence, in 2014, London gave Scotland a choice of freedom from England. Contrarily most Scottish voted no due to England's membership with E.U. However, this opinion changed with Britain's 'Brexit' dramatics. While the fiasco was going on, a poll showed 60% of the Scots wanted Britain. Consequently, the entirety of the UK wanted London not to leave EU eventually, the British were successful, and the UK left EU. This has stirred up controversy in Scotland ever since; combined with the ...

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Death Of Rational Thinking Dates Way Back: Study Reveals

Snehashish RoyJanuary 17, 20220

A new study conducted by the scientists at Indiana University and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) reveals that humanity has slipped into a state where people believe facts based on their emotional quotients and not by rationality. This public contempt for scientific facts is a result of a process that has been in the works for the last couple of decades. The study highlights that humanity has started to make a move towards a time that philosophers term as the "post-truth era," and it is driven by emotions instead of rationality. The public's apathy towards truth began almost four decades ago. Ideally, there is a generalised accepted genesis of the "post-truth" era -- during the time when impulsive irrationality was at an all-time high in the socio-political landscape afte...