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People

Society, culture, ethics and each other.

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Money Sense0001

Money

The story everyone believes

Anything a group of people agree to accept in exchange for things.

I · You02 / 53
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Barter

The deal before money

Swapping one thing directly for another, with no money in between.

I · You03 / 53
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Insurance

A bet you hope to lose

Many people pay a small amount so that the few who need it get a lot.

I · You11 / 53
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Taxation

The membership fee for everything shared

A share of what people earn and spend, collected to pay for shared things.

I · You14 / 53
Body and Mind0029

Active Listening

Hearing is not listening

Listening in a way that shows the speaker they were understood.

I · You30 / 53
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Conflict Resolution

The sentence that lowers the temperature

Settling a disagreement without either side needing to lose.

I · You31 / 53
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Hygiene

Twenty seconds that changed medicine

Everyday cleaning habits that stop germs from spreading.

I · You33 / 53
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Body Image

The comparison that is unfair by design

How a person pictures their own body, and how accurate that picture is.

I · You35 / 53
Ready for Anything0046

Healthy Boundaries

The line that protects both sides

A limit a person sets on what others may ask of them.

I · You47 / 53
Ready for Anything0047

Career Diversity

Most jobs are invisible from school

The range of work that exists, most of which nobody mentions.

I · You48 / 53
Ready for Anything0048

Technology Ethics

Should we, because we can?

Asking whether something should be built, not only whether it can be.

I · You49 / 53
The Digital World0056

The Algorithm

The editor you never chose

The set of rules deciding what a feed shows and in what order.

II · The World05 / 53
Your Country0077

Public Transport

Moving a million people at once

Shared vehicles that move many people using little road each.

II · The World26 / 53
Your Country0080

Diversity

India's multiplication factor

The range of languages, faiths, and backgrounds living in one country.

II · The World29 / 53
Your Country0081

Ethics

When there is no clean answer

Reasoning about right and wrong when every choice costs something.

II · The World30 / 53
Your Country0083

PIL

When one person moves the court for millions

A court case brought on behalf of people who cannot bring it themselves.

II · The World32 / 53
Your Country0084

Water Scarcity

The crisis that arrives without warning

Having less clean water than the people in a place need.

II · The World33 / 53
Your Country0085

Community Service

The selfish case for giving

Unpaid work done for a community rather than for a wage.

II · The World34 / 53
Your Country0086

Civic Sense

The invisible contract

The small courtesies a shared space depends on but no law requires.

II · The World35 / 53
Skills for Life0096

Entrepreneurship

The lemonade-stand principle

Spotting a problem people will pay to have solved, and solving it.

II · The World45 / 53
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Cultural Intelligence

What you assume is normal is not universal

Recognising that other places have different norms, and adjusting.

II · The World49 / 53
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Networking

The strength of weak ties

Building relationships that carry information and opportunity both ways.

II · The World51 / 53
When It Breaks0146

Public Health Delivery

The last mile is the whole problem

Getting proven health measures to the people who need them.

III · The Machinery43 / 53

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