Think Different — With These Five Wonderful Articles
Read them, think about them, and make changes.
Some stories challenge common thoughts and inspire you to think deep. They open new windows for discussion leaving a lasting impact on your mind. Today, I will share five of those stories that will enrich and enhance your understanding of the world.
What do you think about the bats? Yes, the tiny creatures that remind you of vampires and pandemics. Are they as filthy as you think they are — or do they have something to contribute to this world? Read what Mike Alexander reveals in his story Walking with Bats.
Want to explore a new land? Tiago Miranda will take you to a different world — a world that is entirely unknown to you. But with Tiago, you can literally see and smell the aboriginals of Australia and their Karuna Land.
S M Mamunur Rahman talks about Rob Greenfield, who does everything to the extreme to raise awareness about the environment. He dives into dumpsters, rides a bamboo bicycle, and lives off the grid. Have I told you that he doesn’t like to buy anything, not even toilet paper?
Are you afraid of sharks? Courtney Burry says you shouldn’t. With her excellent writing, she dispels the myths about sharks and suggests you see this magnificent creature with some positivity.
In his article, Ryan Frawley explores the thing that we all are missing the most in our tech-driven life. Then, he takes us to the wilderness and show how amazing it will be if we take a break and spend some time with nature.
I hope these five brilliant articles will give you some foods for thoughts and stay with you for a long time.
Have a wonderful reading experience!
Walking with Bats
Written by Mike Alexander
In the small French village where I am living, there is a professional nature guide. Always keen to know more about the natural world around me, I recently joined him and a handful of other people for a night walk. We have six species of owl living either in or around the village or hunting up and down the gorge where we are situated.
Although the owls were interesting, it was the local bats that provided most of the entertainment that night. Many of the sounds that bats produce are not audible to the human, ear. Our guide had a nifty little technical box that lowered the decibels of their calls so that we could hear them.
It was fascinating to be able to listen to them and they found the altered frequency intriguing as well because they were soon circling above our heads. That is when things got really interesting.
Welcome to Kaurna (gar-na) Land
Written by Tiago Miranda
Nothing was written down. It is one of the reasons why Australian Aboriginal knowledge is under threat. They rely on telling stories along generations to create some sense of identity amongst themselves. But most of the stories were ignored, or even deceived by the first settlers during the colonization period, according to Bruce Pascoe in his book “Dark Emu.”
Bruce is an Aboriginal Australian writer and historian who is trying to give more light to Aboriginal knowledge. Through his book, Mr. Pascoe puts several essential points into perspective, especially the argument that “history has whitewashed” Aboriginal knowledge. His main idea is that Australia’s indigenous people have sophisticated agriculture techniques, but it has been denied over the years.
Apart from all the injustices towards the land peoples, some of us are still trying to understand plants’ wisdom, which Aboriginal people have accumulated over thousands of years. It is what this article will touch upon in the following few paragraphs.
Why the Nicest Man on the Planet Doesn’t Use Toilet Paper
Written by S M Mamunur Rahman
Born in Ashland, Wisconsin, Rob Greenfield was raised by a single mother with his three siblings. From his early years, he was an adventurer inside. At the age of 18, he became an Eagle Scout.
While attending the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, he traveled to six continents. He also worked 80+ hours per week as a door-to-door bookseller during summer vacations and gained hands-on experience in sales and marketing. Later, in 2011, he moved to San Diego, California, and started his own marketing company, The Greenfield Group with a vision to become a millionaire by the age of 30.
He was very much focused on material possessions and financial wealth and didn’t care about the environment or the planet.
We Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Sharks. But They Should Be Afraid of Us
Written by Courtney Burry
Before 1916, most scientists believed the sharks’ teeth weren’t strong enough to break human-bone. These creatures that have been on the earth longer than insects, trees, and dinosaurs, were deemed to be tame. But everything changed after six shark attacks killed four people and injured one along the Jersey shore that summer.
Scientists realized they had been wrong. And the public came to have a profound fear of sharks, which reached new plateaus with the release of the novel Jaws in 1974. This was followed by Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the book into a blockbuster movie.
The book, like the movie, told the tale of a fictitious town off the East Coast that was being terrorized by a great white shark. Together, they sent the American public into a virtual shark frenzy.
Forget This Screen — The Real World Is Out There
Written by Ryan Frawley
But every time I go camping, I’m struck by the strangeness of it. I have a house with running water and a comfortable bed and a big TV that brings me entertainment from around the world. Yet at my wife’s urging, we’ll leave the house behind to go live in the woods like badgers for a couple of nights.
Not just us, either. Families. Groups of friends. Entire offices, coerced into temporary homelessness by some overenthusiastic HR teambuilding guru. We work our asses off to afford our overpriced homes, then ditch them the minute it stops raining to eat poorly-cooked food and shiver the night away in mildew-spotted tents.
There’s only one possible explanation: we need the wilderness. We need nature. We need the real world. The blinking screens are wonderfully distracting, but sooner or later, they leave us hollow.
Thank you for reading.
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