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What is Tinder? Oct 23, 2021

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What is Tinder? Thanks for asking!

Since launching in the US in 2012, there’s no doubting Tinder has certainly revolutionized dating and relationships. According to Business of Apps, it has over 75 million monthly active users, making it the most used dating app worldwide.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Tinder, it’s just like any online dating platform in that you enter your personal details, orientation and a short bio, upload a few pics, and, this part is important, share your location.

After all, the particular appeal of Tinder is its geolocation system, which lets you connect with and meet people nearby. It quickly became synonymous with swiping: right to like or left to pass. Once you’ve matched with another user, you can exchange private messages.

Sounds simple enough! So what are the latest developments in the world of Tinder? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is sportswashing?

What is Polexit?

What is Generation Alpha?

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What is sportswashing? Oct 21, 2021

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What is sportswashing? Thanks for asking!

Look out Premier League clubs, a new big boy is in town! That’s right, following approval of their acquisition by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Newcastle United has all of a sudden become one of the richest clubs in the world!

While the Toon Army are celebrating their club’s new found wealth and dreaming of trophies to come in the future, other observers aren’t in such a buoyant mood. They’ve accused the new owners, who effectively represent the state of Saudi Arabia, of sportswashing.

Have the new owners actually done anything wrong? How common are we talking then? Why would sports clubs or athletes want to risk tarnishing their image with such links? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is Polexit?

What is Generation Alpha?

Who is Harlan Coben?

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What is Polexit? Oct 20, 2021

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What is Polexit? Thanks for asking!

With Brexit finally having become a reality earlier this year, could other countries follow suit and leave the EU? Well the prospect of a similar Polexit isn’t outside the realms of possibility according to some observers.

To understand why the term is on everyone’s lips, you need to look back at what happened in Poland on October 7th. The country’s constitutional court found that certain articles of EU treaties were incompatible with the national constitution. It ruled that Polish law should supersede EU law.

The country openly challenging the primacy of European law, which dates back to the 1960s, is truly a historic and unprecedented decision.

What was the EU’s response? How did relations get to be so strained between the EU and Poland? Is Polexit really possible? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is Generation Alpha?

Who is Harlan Coben?

What is plogging?

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What is Generation Alpha? Oct 18, 2021

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What is Generation Alpha? Thanks for asking!

After Generation X, Generation Y (also known as the Millennials) and Gen-Z, where do you go next? Well back to the start of the alphabet as it turns out, albeit a different one! That’s right; Generation Alpha takes its name from the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and it’s the unofficial name for the successors of Gen Z.

The term came from a survey carried out by Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research in 2008. If it catches on enough, we could expect the following generations to be known as Beta, Gamma and Delta.

What are the characteristics of Generation Alpha members then? What else is noteworthy aside from technology? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is plogging?

What are the Pandora Papers?

What is degrowth?

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[RERUN] What were the Troubles? Oct 17, 2021

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What were the Troubles? Thanks for asking!

The British government is stepping up its pressure on Brussels and demanding "significant changes" in the protocol governing post-Brexit customs arrangements specific to Northern Ireland. It’s been 23 years since the Good Friday peace agreement put an end to The Troubles, a decades-long period of violence which saw 3,500 people die. Nevertheless, in recent weeks riots broke out in loyalist areas of Northern Ireland’s major cities, including Derry and Belfast. Gangs of youths attacked police, injuring scores of officers in the worst violence the country has seen for years.

What’s caused tensions to rise again in Northern Ireland? How did the Troubles begin? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What are the Pandora Papers?

What is degrowth?

What is coolsculpting?

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Who is Harlan Coben? Oct 16, 2021

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Who is Harlan Coben? Thanks for asking!

His name might not be as familiar as that of Stephen King, but that hasn’t stopped novelist Harlan Coben achieving unrivalled success in his field, at least when it comes to book sales. After all, we’re talking 75 million copies of his 32 books printed and sold in over 40 countries worldwide. In his home country, the US, he has won pretty much every award out there for crime novels.

What are the secrets of his success? Given the success of his books, I bet filmmakers were excited at the prospect of adapting them! How has Coban’s popularity grown in recent years? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is plogging?

What are the Pandora Papers?

What is degrowth?

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What is plogging? Oct 14, 2021

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What is plogging? Thanks for asking!

We’ve covered several Scandinavian wellness trends in the past and here’s one which is good for both the body and soul. Plogging is a mash-up of the Swedish term “plocka upp”, which means picking up, and the English word “jogging”.

So what are we picking up while jogging? Does it actually burn that many calories? How can I get started then? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What are the Pandora Papers?

What is degrowth?

What is coolsculpting?

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What are the Pandora Papers? Oct 13, 2021

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What are the Pandora Papers? Thanks for asking!

On October 3rd, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began publishing leaked documents exposing the hidden assets of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

Five years after the Panama Papers revelations, the latest investigation, carried out over two years, represents the biggest ever leak of offshore data, showing the global scale of tax evasion. In total 11.9 million documents were leaked, totalling 2.94 terabytes worth of data.

It has been dubbed the Pandora Papers, evoking Pandora’s Box from Greek mythology, a jar containing the world’s evils.

So who is implicated in the Pandora Papers leak? Did they actually do anything illegal? What’s different this time compared to previous leaks like the Paradise Papers and Panama Papers? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is degrowth?

What is coolsculpting?

What is a bore-out?

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What is degrowth? Oct 11, 2021

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What is degrowth? Thanks for asking!

Degrowth advocates believe that if we continue prioritising economic growth, political, environmental and geopolitical crises will only increase in number. It’s a form of opposition to consumerist society, all about the importance of the collective over the individual, and planet Earth over the human race.

Where does the term come from? What are the arguments in favour of degrowth? So how do we get started on ‘degrowing’? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is a bore-out?

Who is James Bond?

What is reproductive health?

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[RERUN] What is conversion therapy? Oct 10, 2021

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What is conversion therapy? Thanks for asking!

In the midst of the scandal surrounding pedocriminality within the Catholic Church, conversion therapies have been voted to be banned in France on October 5, 2021. Conversion therapy, also known as homotherapy, is a pseudoscientific practice that seeks to convert homosexuals to heterosexuality, or at least encourage them to be abstinent. Largely pushed by religious groups, this kind of therapy is still growing in Europe and America. The practices are not only ineffective, but can also be dangerous.

OK so it’s mainly a thing in religious or conservative countries, is it? So does it actually work? Can you change someone’s sexual orientation? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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What is Lagom?

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