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Fractional Reserve Banking explained in exactly 500 words
Imagine if instead of paying to park your car, you got paid for it. Wouldn’t you find it strange? You might assume that the parking attendant planned o…
Louis Pereira
Feb 17
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Caffeine explained in exactly 500 words
Caffeine is my favorite drug. Every morning, before I start my day, I brew myself a cup of coffee. As the caffeine enters my system, I transform from a…
Louis Pereira
Jan 31
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Freemasonry explained in exactly 500 words
Freemasonry is the world’s most famous secret society whose objective is to ‘take good men and make them better'. If you’re surprised by this seemingly…
Louis Pereira
Jan 24
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Dopamine explained in exactly 500 words
You’ve just woken up. What’s the first thing you do? If you’re like me, you get your first dopamine hit of the day - you reach for your phone.
Louis Pereira
Jan 10
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Stoicism explained in exactly 500 words
If practiced well, Stoicism can help you get rich and stay rich. I’m only half-joking. Stoicism is a school of Philosophy that originated in Athens in …
Louis Pereira
Dec 27, 2020
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Loss Aversion explained in exactly 500 words
You're not built to chase your dreams.
Louis Pereira
Dec 16, 2020
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Sleep explained in exactly 500 words
Sleep is like your significant other. You’re fond of it, but you don’t really understand it. From an evolutionary perspective, sleep is a strange pheno…
Louis Pereira
Dec 2, 2020
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Viruses explained in exactly 500 words
I've had the personal misfortune of experiencing two very different viruses in 2020. One attacked my computer. The other made me spend a fortnight in i…
Louis Pereira
Nov 25, 2020
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Marxism explained in exactly 500 words
Europe was a strange place in the year 1848. The Industrial Revolution had changed its economic landscape. Democracy was gaining ground against monarch…
Louis Pereira
Nov 18, 2020
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The Significance of Bitcoin in exactly 500 words
If democracy and free-market capitalism had a child, they’d call it Bitcoin.
Louis Pereira
Nov 11, 2020
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The Science of Hangovers in exactly 500 words
Drinking alcohol today is like borrowing happiness from tomorrow. And as they say - payback’s a bitch.
Louis Pereira
Nov 4, 2020
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World War 1 in exactly 500 words
If you have a sibling, you'll know what it’s like to annoy each other for hours until it leads to a fistfight that ends in at least one bruised ego. Wo…
Louis Pereira
Oct 28, 2020
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