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Documentary: Most Dangerous Ways to School: Oimjakon

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Here's part of the anthropology section, not sure if anyone is interested. The series is called most dangerous ways to school and they follow children around the world on their perilous journeys to get to school. This one os from the Arctic in Siberia. It follows a bunch of Arctic people's as they live and try to go to school in Russia's far North to try to get a basic education. The average temperature there is about -40 C. It is very possible to freeze to death, if out for even a short period of time. Eyebrows, etc. freeze almost immediately when people go out. It seems like a hard life. Without further ado:

The History and Future of Civilization

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In what follows I am defining a civilization as a city based society where the government has the effective monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.                   Civilizations originated independently from each other in various parts of the world, and spread from their areas of origin to become gradually aware of each other. For civilization to originate in an area agriculture has to have begun their earlier. Agriculture begins in the Fertile Crescent. This is what is now Iraq, Syria, parts of Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, and Jordan. Agriculture began there because that area had a large number of wild plants and animals that were useful to humans, and that could be cultivated, or bred to make them more useful. With agriculture populations become more dense because a square mile can support many more humans by agriculture than by hunting and gathering. Population density means tribes develop. These are larger than Paleolithic hunting bands. Agricultural tribes dis

Sunday Night at the Movies - Akira (1988) (*cyberpunk genre*)

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Hello all sorry for the lateness, I need to convert this movie first then add subtitles and then upload it so please bear with me. I will post this and then add the link to the film once it finishes. This is a staple Japanese anime film from the late 80s in the cyberpunk genre. If you've ever wondered what cyberpunk is this, and Blade Runner are good examples. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of low-life and high tech . Sorry I'm short for time so here is the Wikipedia summary about the film: Akira ( Japanese : アキラ ) is a 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic cyberpunk film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo , produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto , based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name . The film had a production budget of ¥ 700 million ( $ 5.5 million ), making it the most expensive anime film at the time (until it w

Canada is Doomed (in Terms of Racial Demographics)

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Final version rejected by other websites blogs so here it is as it stands: Canada is Doomed (in Terms of Racial Demographics) by Independent Thinker  Photo by  Vincent Albos  from  Pexels      Demographic Changes Over the Recent Decades       Anyone who's either lived in, or frequently visited Canada's major cities over the last 30 years or so, will be able to attest to the fact that the racial demography has greatly changed since then. In Canada's largest and most 'multicultural' city, Toronto, in 1996 'visible minorities', which are all non-whites aside from 'First Nations' these are Metis (mixed white and Amerindian), Amerindians, and Inuit, made up 32% of the population of the city [1]. According to Canada's most recent census, in 2016, they now comprise a whopping 51.5% of the total Toronto population! (Aboriginals comprise about 0.9% of Toronto's population) [2]. In Canada's largest city whites are now a min