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@irime

★★★ Be authentic, stay curious, learn to love the process ★★★ Self-actualization ❙ Martial arts ❙ Cinema gems ❙ Culture and Science

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irime
@irime Mar 6, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC

Do we really need to learn all that in school?

Is academic success important for later in life? Recently, I came across a little video that aimed to highlight why parents should not put too much pressure into their children’s academic achievement…

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@irime Mar 2, 2018, 12:39 PM UTC

Helping our own bodies to fight cancer: A new anti-cancer vaccine that might put an end to it.

Tired of hearing about a “potential cure for cancer” every other week only to see no follow up? Me too. Every now and then emerges a new cancer fighting strategy that somehow never becomes fully succ…

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irime
@irime Jan 29, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

Training without the gi in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Let's roll! (my first DTube video)

Were you curious about what my rolls look like? Today is your lucky day: you get to see me awkwardly spazzing out during a couple minutes trying to secure a submission. One of my friends says that no…

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irime
@irime Jan 26, 2018, 1:54 PM UTC

Reliable information or manipulative content? Spot the difference!

Nowadays it seems that a decadent educational system, decreasing attention spans, and the spread of social media have conflated to create a perfect cocktail of easily-spread ignorance, some of which…

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irime
@irime Jan 19, 2018, 2:40 PM UTC

Alkaline diets – Can you really affect the pH balance of your body with what you eat, to get rid of disease? Do they work at all?

“Become healthier” is probably near the top of almost everyone’s New Year’s resolutions. This might bring you to take a quick look into diets and nutritional advice that is popular on the internet or…

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irime
@irime Jan 12, 2018, 3:22 AM UTC

The perks and downsides of being a woman in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

I am not one to see life through a “woman lens”. Some people seem to do it all the time, filtering their individual identity throughout their gender, adjusting their perception of society and the wor…

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irime
@irime Jan 9, 2018, 12:21 AM UTC

An eye condition that I didn’t even know existed: Let me introduce you to Pinguecula/Pterygium

Have you looked at your eyes closely? You might be as surprised as I was. It all started a couple of months ago. I was constantly having a feeling of very dry eyes and sometimes felt like I had somet…

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irime
@irime Jan 6, 2018, 8:27 AM UTC

The biology of the possible: what artificial life can teach us about the nature of living systems

Sometimes the findings made in molecular biology seem like countless, tiny pieces of an enormous jigsaw puzzle: some of them we have managed to connect together, forming little islands of knowledge,…

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@irime Jan 2, 2018, 10:38 PM UTC

Your Steemit achievements and resolutions: What does 2018 hold?

In 2017, I achieved (almost) all of my Steemit goals: reached reputation 60+, got consistently good payouts for most of my content, accrued over 1,000 Steem Power from my posts, even made it to the t…

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@irime Dec 27, 2017, 7:51 PM UTC

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day Seven: Where it all began

Look closer, and you might find a treasure right in front of you... The Challenge These are the rules to be taken into account: • Seven black and white images that represent an aspect of your life. •…

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