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selling kids for clout:The downfall of family channels

YouTube-Shanspeare

Opressed by Choice: Tradwives againts feminism

YouTube-Shanspeare

The False Evolution of Execution Methods

Psychosis & Schizophrenia Mnemonics (Memorable Psychiatry Lecture)

How 500 Days of Summer gets the Manic Pixie Dream Girl right

Can You Separate the Art from the Artist?

YouTube

Intelexual Media

youtube • Likes to talk about history, sex, sociology, and pop culture with a heavy focus on black women, whose stories are not told enough in history retrospectives and documentaries.

our obsession with beauty is dystopian

YouTube-Shanspeare

the male gaze™ in the virgin suicides.

YouTube

The Cool Girl Trope, Explained

YouTube

Japan’s Most Dangerous Cult, explained.

The Nice Guy Trope, Explained

YouTube

The Mean Girl Trope, Explained

YouTube

The Weird Girl Trope, Explained

YouTube

The Smart Girl Trope, Explained

YouTube

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Trope, Explained

YouTube

Why You Root for Gone Girl’s Amy Dunne

YouTube

Boys Don’t Cry (Except When They Do)

YouTube

The Madness of Feminine Perfection | Explored Through Black Swan

YouTube

The fashion industry hates older women

YouTube-Mina Le

Female Suffering as Spectacle: The Idol and Blonde Have the Same Problem

YouTube

When Did Conspiracy Theories Get So Crazy?

YouTube

The Psychology of Nightmares

by eternalised

Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?

YouTube

Why Good People Become Monsters

YouTube

The “Faceless YouTube Channel” Plague

YouTube

the persistence of insecurity

YouTuber . Inayah

Why Good People Lose | Machiavelli and The Prince

YouTuber . Unsolicited Advice

prada: fascism and fashion

why lolita is impossible to adapt into film

Cannibalism in Early Modern English Drama: a Brief Overview

YouTuber . GutenbergBible

Holes & The Prison-Industrial Complex

things I no longer believe in.

YouTuber . Yan

The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness | Fernando Pessoa

Child Star

Demi Lovato · 2024

Explore the highs and lows of growing up in the spotlight through the lens of some of the world’s most famous former child stars. Through celebrity interviews, verite scenes, and archival footage, this film deconstructs the stages of earlier stardom and looks at the entertainment system over the last century.

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

2024

Discover the untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside ''90s kids'' TV. Hear harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today.

Our Father

Lucie Jourdan · 2022

After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

The Fall of Diddy

2025

Pull back the curtain on music mogul Sean Combs, and the allegations of violence and abuse kept quiet for years. This chilling chronicle redefines the music mogul and business titan everyone thinks they know.

My Octopus Teacher

Philippa Ehrlich · 2020

After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.

Athlete A: Abuso de Inocência

Bonni Cohen · 2020

Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar''s abuse and hear from gymnasts.

Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil

2021

Demi Lovato holds nothing back in this powerful four part documentary series exploring every aspect that led to their nearly fatal overdose in 2018, and their awakenings in the aftermath. Director Michael D. Ratner is granted unprecedented access to the superstar’s personal and musical journey during the most trying time of their life as they unearth their prior traumas and discovers the importance of their physical, emotional, and mental health. Far deeper than an inside look beyond the celebrity surface, this is an intimate portrait of addiction, and the process of healing and empowerment.

Coded Bias

Shalini Kantayya · 2020

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini''s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

The Staircase

Antonio Campos · 2022

Pamela, A Love Story

Ryan White · 2023

In her own words, through personal video and diaries, Pamela Anderson shares the story of her rise to fame, rocky romances and infamous sex tape scandal.

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

Alek Keshishian · 2022

After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and intimate documentary spans her six-year journey into a new light.

AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

2024

Follow the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from auditions to training camp and the NFL season as they chase their dreams and a coveted spot on the squad.

A Grande Noite do Pop

Bao Nguyen · 2024

On a January night in 1985, music''s biggest stars gathered to record "We Are the World." This documentary goes behind the scenes of the historic event.

Vale o Escrito - A Guerra do Jogo do Bicho

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

2022

In interviews and rare home video footage, ex-FLDS members share the truth about their isolated community — and the events that pushed them to leave.

Miss Americana

Lana Wilson · 2020

A raw and emotionally revealing look at one of the most iconic artists of our time during a transformational period in her life as she learns to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer, but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice.

The Pharmacist

Julia Willoughby Nason, Jenner Furst · 2020

After his son''s tragic death, a Louisiana pharmacist goes to extremes to expose the rampant corruption behind the opioid addiction crisis.

Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife

2023

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There''s just one problem: His patients keep dying.

Crazy, Not Insane

Alex Gibney · 2020

Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

Davis Guggenheim · 2019

Take a trip inside the mind of Bill Gates as the billionaire opens up about those who influenced him and the audacious goals he's still pursuing.

Unnatural Selection

The Confession Killer

Robert Kenner, Taki Oldham · 2019

Henry Lee Lucas rose to infamy when he confessed to hundreds of unsolved murders. This docuseries examines the truth -- and horrifying consequences.

The World''s Biggest Drug Lord: Tse Chi Lop

Steven Chao · 2021

Dubbed Asia’s ‘El Chapo,’ Tse is alleged to have built the largest drug trafficking operation in history, that stretched from drug factories in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to involve the Italian mafia, Yakuza in Japan and motorcycle gangs in the U.S. His capture, as he attempted to fly from Taiwan to Canada via Amsterdam, required the cooperation of more than twenty government agencies and was coordinated by the Australian Federal Police.

Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist

Matías Gueilburt · 2022

Through candid interviews, the perpetrators of Argentina''s most notorious bank heist detail how — and why — they carried out the radical 2006 operation.

Painkiller

2023

The causes and consequences of America''s opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.

Dear Zachary

Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy

Nic Stacey · 2024

This subversive documentary unpacks the tricks brands use to keep their customers consuming — and the real impact they have on our lives and the world.

The Crime of the Century

Alex Gibney · 2021

A searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.

Exit Through The Gift Shop

Banksy · 2010

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

The Big Conn

Brian Lazarte, James Lee Hernandez · 2022

Eric C. Conn was a lawyer living a little too large in eastern Kentucky...until two whistleblowers realized he was at the center of government fraud worth over half a billion dollars, one of the largest in U.S. history. And that was just the beginning.

Fleabag: The Scriptures

Phoebe Waller-Bridge · 2019

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez · 2020

Women Living Deliciously

Florence Given · 2024

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2013

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Brianna Wiest · 2018

Conversations on Love

Lunn Natasha · 2021

Women, Race and Class

Angela Y. Davis · 2000

Dopamine Nation

Dr. Anna Lembke · 2023

Women Who Think Too Much

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema · 2003

Why Fish Don't Exist

Lulu Miller · 2021

What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley

Adrian Daub · 2020

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou · 2018

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

George Chauncey · 2019

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Diana Souhami · 2020

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Perennial Classics)

Simone de Beauvoir · 2005

The Woman Destroyed

Simone De Beauvoir · 1987

Letters to a Young Scientist

Edward O. Wilson · 2014

Person in Progress: A Road Map to the Psychology of Your 20s

Jemma Sbeg · 2025

Monsters walk among us — and they''re watching Netflix at 1.5x speed

Did my quest to become beautiful just make me uglier?

How the self-care industry made us so lonely

Inside the very strange, very expensive race to “de-age”

Hailey Bieber''s Flesh-Eating Empire

Social media can’t be your couples’ therapist

Should Couples Merge Their Finances?

“Protecting your peace” can kill your friendships

Is anyone having sex after their 12-step bedtime routine?

How Universal Are Our Emotions?

What too much anger does to you — and how to stop it

Love shouldn’t be blind or mad. Instead, fall rationally in love | Psyche Ideas

Por que a ansiedade te impede de tomar decisões?

You Can Learn to be Photogenic

The atlantic

How Queer is Frankenstein?

The New Yorker

Monsters walk among us — and they''re watching Netflix at 1.5x speed

“Junk Food TV” Is Taking Over. Here’s Why.

Did my quest to become beautiful just make me uglier?

How Does My Divorce Make You Feel?

The Cut

Inside the very strange, very expensive race to “de-age”

Hailey Bieber''s Flesh-Eating Empire

“Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” by Anthony Bourdain

The New Yorker

The Fourth State of Matter

The New Yorker

I Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. They’ve Changed, and Not for the Better.

The New York Times

Hilary Mantel · Diary: Meeting the Devil

London Review of Books

How Dare Celebrities Cheat?

The New Yorker

This Old Man

The New Yorker

What Is Brutalist Architecture, and Why Is It So Controversial?

ARTnews.com

Consider The Lobster

David Foster Wallace

Opinion | Sofia Coppola and All the Sad Girls (Published 2023)

The New York Times

How is it possible to be loved and yet to feel deeply lonely? | Aeon Essays

Aeon Magazine

A Ridiculous, Perfect Way to Make Friends

The Atlantic

Your microwave has its own microbiome

How Zendaya''s ''Challengers'' Costumes Tell a Story of Ruthless Ambition

Why Humans Cry

The New York Times

ChatGPT And Generative AI Innovations Are Creating Sustainability Havoc

Forbes

We Can’t All Be BFFs. Enter the ‘Medium Friend.’

The New York Times

The Artist Exposing the Data We Leave Online

The New Yorker

The Secret to Thinking Your Way Out of Anxiety

The Atlantic

How to be alone with your thoughts

Vox

What Should a 30-Something Look Like?

The Cut

Will Kids Online, In Fact, Be All Right?

The New Yorker

Holding My Mother On The Kitchen Floor

Byline

Taste is Eating Silicon Valley.

The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture

The New Yorker

On breaking philosophy out of the seminar and back into the world | Aeon Essays

Aeon Magazine

Research: How Anxiety Shapes Men’s and Women’s Leadership Differently

Harvard Business Review

Casual Viewing | Netflix

n+1

We’re living in the era of ‘main character syndrome’. But what if we’re just not that important? | Róisín Lanigan

The Guardian

Is brain rot the end of the world as we know it?

Dazed

Toda vez que alguém duvidar do mal causado pelas big techs, mostre esse dossiê | Intercept Brasil

Neil Gaiman SA allegations

Vulture

Como as bets produziram a pandemia do vício - revista piauí

falling in love with reading

The Atlantic

A saga do Palácio Monroe

What to Do When You’re Feeling Lonely

The Cut

Opinion | We Should All Know Less About Each Other

The effect of stress on the immune system

How Friendships Change When You Become an Adult

The Atlantic

“Opening Theory,” by Sally Rooney

The New Yorker

The Creative Process

An invitation to a secret society

The Cult of Crowley

“Does Anyone Feel Like an Actual Adult?”

Kathryn Jezer-Morton · 2023

Why I Stopped Meditating and Started Screaming

research as leisure activity

personal canon

A thin line between mother and daughter

Salon.com

[109] Data Falsificada (Part 1): "Clusterfake" - Data Colada

What to Read If You Want to Reinvent Yourself

The Atlantic

Visualizing the mysterious dance: Quantum entanglement of photons captured in real-time

la Universidad de Ottawa|2023

How to be alone with your thoughts

Vox

The Scientific Virtues

Overwhelmed but feel responsible for everyone? You must be the eldest daughter

The i Paper

When to quit

Mary AndreMary Andrew · 2024

On keeping a notebook

In a room full of people, would anyone notice me?

Nabil|2024

you are not everyone’s cup of tea and that’s okay

"You can’t make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy, because you understand them but they don’t understand you. People can only understand us at the depths in which they met themselves.”

In every self-isolation, I also need someone’s “are you okay?” too

"It’s as if self-isolation is the answer to the heavy heart I’m carrying." - felt this one to my core

the art of observing and not absorbing

"A cold water feels warm when hands are freezing."

The Pain of Losing Your First Language

Kristin Wong · 2021

Each Being is a Universe

"So how can you know someone if they don’t know themslves?"

the beauty of growth

"maybe the person that we are right now would’ve saved our younger selves"🫶🏻

the heart that feels everything

"Sensitive people might suffer more, but they live fully, with open hearts and open minds. And maybe that’s what makes life worth living; feeling everything, even if it sometimes hurts."

Lady Bird — the complex love story of a mother and daughter

Medium

To the movie that got me back into film

allyourcinema

How to Read Someone’s Personality in 10 Seconds (Backed by Psychology)

"People think they can hide who they are, they really, really can’t."

O que foi a Guerra do Vietnã? - Brasil Escola

Segunda Guerra sino-japonesa - Brasil Escola

Rock Brasileiro.

Rock brasileiro nasce em 1970 com vertentes diversas.

Funk Brasileiro.

Funk no Brasil: um panorama histórico da ascensão da cultura das comunidades.

MPB - Música Popular Brasileira

Artigo sobre a história do mpb.

Como o rock brasileiro subverteu a origem do gênero.

Tropicália.

Artigo sobre o tropicalismo do Brasil escola.

Movimento Tropicália.

Concretismo, antropofagia e política.

Noel Rosa: As histórias por trás das 3 músicas mais ouvidas do cantor e compositor.

foto, Obra de Noel Rosa retrata mudanças culturais, políticas e econômicas no Rio no início do século 20

Jovem guarda - Memórias da ditadura

Artigo que fala sobre a relação da jovem guarda com a ditadura.

Everyday Philosophy: Is there such a thing as a "negative emotion"?

A história do Carnaval.

Artigo sobre a história do carnaval.

Linha do tempo da música brasileira.

Uma breve história do Hino Nacional Brasileiro.

Os 100 maiores discos da música brasileira pela Rolling Stones Brasil.

Why don’t straight men read novels?

Ler ficção nos torna mais empáticos?

The Beauty of Being Alone

The perfect escape from our online world

Is the digital detox industry a scam?

Detox digital realmente funciona?

Validate me, please!

Validação extrema e seus problemas

The perfect escape from our online world

Como memórias de relações antigas moldam o amor do presente — Gama Revista

Want a better social life? Try these easy habits.

Pequenas interações podem te ajudar a melhorar o dia a dia

Você Precisa Ser “Fútil” De Vez Em Quando Se Não Quiser Enlouquecer

Tracking Screen Time Is Ruining Your Life

Sure, Opposites Attract. But Do They Actually Stay Together?

SELF

Por dentro da “conspiração” que nos incentiva a consumir cada vez mais | Fast Company Brasil

Screen time reports won’t help you put your phone down. Here’s what can.

O misterioso furto durante o velório de Noel Rosa, que faria 109 anos nesta quarta-feira | Blog do Acervo - O Globo

Todos temos duas vidas. A segunda começa quando percebemos que só temos uma. - Confúcio - portal waffle

Restauração Meiji: o que foi, causas, mudanças - Brasil Escola

Como não deixar as coisas inacabadas? - The Girls Club

Revolução Chinesa - Brasil Escola

Movimento Beat - Geração Beat - Literatura

Revolução Chinesa (1911-1949): o que foi, suas causas e consequências

Primeira Guerra Sino-Japonesa: motivos, resumo - Brasil Escola

Guerras do Ópio. Causas e consequências das Guerras do Ópio - Brasil Escola

Issue #12: Can We Really Learn to Love?

The Humanities Library

Escolher estar só às vezes é um grande ato de amor

Você sabe o que é a Síndrome da Escolhida?

"Quando não podemos mais mudar uma situação, somos desafiados a mudar a nós mesmos." - Viktor Frankl - portal waffle

Everyday Philosophy: Can you have a “calling” without a caller?

Big Think

Rilke and the art of listening

Aeon Magazine

you want to fight back? you can’t even beat your algorithm.

social deficit

In the Ashes, we care.

The Existential Pulse

microtraições ou macro controle?

Do you ACTUALLY want it, or do you want others to see you having it?

can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?

milk fed

How to live an intellectually rich life

Tumse Na Ho Paayega

A Fala Identitária: Teatro Afro Brasileiro Hoje - Literatura Afro-Brasileira

Moema Parente Augel

Formas de representação do corpo negro em performance - Literatura Afro-Brasileira

Marcos Antônio Alexandre

Por um conceito de literatura afro-brasileira - Literatura Afro-Brasileira

Eduardo de Assis Duarte

Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”

New Statesman

Tulipmania

Podcast

McCluhan: the Medium is the Message

Podcast

Short Wave

New discoveries, everyday mystery and science behind the headlines in just under 15 minutes

The Power Of Design

NPR | podcast

Ologies Episodes — alie ward

Alie Ward | a pocket full of science, knowledge & bizarre stories about these professionals "-ologies"

the people we follow

Bria Jones | Spotify • A show dedicated to bringing up conversations dealing with social media and influencers

The Tax Loophole That Helps Temu and Shein Keep Prices So Low

Time

So Cultured Podcast

Show

"eu não gosto de política – e não tá tudo bem!

ninguém aguenta mais dicas

eu odeio o fenômeno i''m just a girl

Não deixe a cultura girly girl atrapalhar seus pensamentos e estudos sobre política

I'm smart and I need everyone to know it

ALL OVER THE PLACE

the cool girl books phenomenon

POSTCARDS BY ELLE

pinterest, but make it intentional

Write Everything Down (and not in your notes app)

things to put inside your journal

you’re not an introvert, actually

El amor en tiempos de Tinder

How To Care For Your Body While Working A Desk Job: Part 1

The 10 Styling Lessons I Learnt This Year That Have Upped My Outfit Game

Drugs are fucking everywhere (and we’re all addicted to comfort).

Threadings.

How I Found My Purpose, My Passion, and My Person

Conscious Life Design

How To Understand Things

Nabeel S. Qureshi

on sleeping next to someone

cozy youtubers i’ve been loving recently

knitting between the lines

How Your Metabolism Can Heal Your Brain (Adhd, Depression, Memory, Mood + More)

Valerie Ribon

Why & how I take reading notes by hand

Knowledge Lust

the fear of being seen (but then realising that i kind of love being seen)

Task Initiation Avoidance: Why You Can’t Start (And How to Fix It)

The ADHD Weasel

The Weight of Wanting Love

Notes on Being

You were supposed to be my bridesmaids

COFFEE BREAK

Quando a política vira meme, quem sai perdendo somos nós

Será que eu sou difícil de ler?

Quando você vai começar a viver a sua própria vida?

The silly little things I do that are helping me show up for myself

low-energy habits that improved my mental health

Love Letters to the Girls Who Are Too Hard on Themselves

fighting the fig tree analogy

daily suit

The Art of Romanticizing Your Everyday Life

things i notice when i'm not rushing

Insufferability Politics

@bitchsensei | substack • Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

I want to do everything, so I do nothing

melancholic media for days you’re feeling blue

@caitlynrichardson | substack • reader, are you feeling blue, too?

my favorite substack newsletters

@caitylnrichardson | substack • writing is hard.

how to be perceived

club reticent

strawberries and sunlight

@postcardsbyelle | substack • postcard 16: on a mini seasonal guide of books, movies and music for the summer

How to Develop Taste

How to Develop Taste

Meu maior medo é ser burro

In Praise of Gatekeeping