🥳 😍✨ Bern/ CH: Im Rahmen der Globalen Aktionstage gegen Militarismus hat eine Gruppe in Bern Strassenschilder überklebt. Statt der "Militär- und Kasernenstrasse" trugen sie nun den Namen "De-militarisierte Str." und einen Hinweis auf die Aktionstage, sowie Plakate, welche - unter anderem - eine Entmilitarisierung des Planeten fordern. https://barrikade.info/article/6217

Bern/ Switzerland: As part of the Global Days of Action against Militarism, a group in Bern pasted over street signs. Instead of "Militär- und Kasernenstrasse", they now bore the name "De-militarisierte Str." and a reference to the days of action, as well as posters calling - among other things - for the demilitarisation of the planet.

👉 https://diakollektiv.noblogs.org/

TIL the term "conspiracy theory" is itself the subject of a conspiracy theory whereby the CIA intentionally popularized it after the Kennedy assassination to discredit and ridicule conspiratorial believers [source, comments]

Unfortunately it's a deepfake, but great art by Zentrum für politische Schönheit. Support the whole thing here: afd-verbot.de
https://youtu.be/g1Gf2MMJr80?feature=shared

I listened to this song and the music somehow sounded familiar. https://youtu.be/LdZu4cvpDQE?feature=shared
After a while it dawned on me that I heard it before on the criminally ignored album Kinzdom Come by KMC. This is the best German Hip Hop album ever to me. English rapping crew KMC (Kinzmenclikk) consisted of rap trio Harleckinz, Big Sal, DJ Desue, Mr. Knight, KC da Rookee and others

Song of the day 🎤🫂: https://open.spotify.com/track/142rESKN3gVeiUV0WmP8wf?si=LStRBFD_TFi9Hqa_NLyGrQ

Good idea: spend as much time as possible in nature 🌱

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/27/the-nature-cure-how-time-outdoors-transforms-our-memory-imagination-and-logic

I’m far from alone in finding the antidote to modern life in nature. “It’s only when I’m outdoors and attentive to the wild things around me that my mind holds still,” says James Gilbert, an ecologist from Northamptonshire. Despite his job, it is not visits to nature reserves boasting rare species that provide what he describes as a “mental reset” – “simply the everyday encounters I chance upon in my daily life. These touches of wildness freshen my mind, broaden my perspective and lift my spirits.”

Such testimonies to the power of nature are nothing new. What is new is the emerging field of environmental neuroscience, which seeks to explore why – and how – our brains are so profoundly affected by being in nature.

You are probably aware of studies showing that green (vegetated) and blue (moving water) environments are associated with a reduction in stress, improved mood, more positive emotions and decreases in anxiety and rumination. But there is growing evidence that nature exposure also benefits cognitive function – all the processes involved in gaining knowledge and understanding, including perception, memory, reasoning, judgment, imagination and problem-solving. One study found that after just 40 seconds of looking out at a green roof, subjects made fewer mistakes in a test than when they looked at a concrete one.

Dr Marc Berman, director of the Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago, taxed subjects’ brains with a test known as the backwards digit-span task, requiring them to repeat back sequences of numbers in reverse order. Then he sent them for a 50-minute walk, in either an urban setting (a town centre) or a nature setting (a park). On their return, they repeated the task. “Performance improved by about 20% when participants had walked in nature, but not when they had walked in an urban environment,” he says.

Song of the day 🤝💦: https://youtu.be/-OBD-al0cIM?feature=shared

Society has no answers for the toughest questions in life so it acts like those things don’t matter

Reizthema Feminismus: «Sehr viel Meinung ohne Wissen ist sehr gefährlich» https://www.watson.ch/!380437203