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To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is playing Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, discover ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is Cinderella complex? Cinderella is perhaps the archetypal Disney princess, with her legacy living on generations after its cinema re...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is replaying Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, refresh your knowledge about ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is the Matilda Effect? Imagine humanity only using half the brains at its disposal to solve the many scientific...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is playing Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, discover ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is emotional labour? When we go to work, we get paid a salary for our efforts, to put food on the table, pay the rent and bills and so...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is playing Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, discover ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is a false pregnancy? Society has traditionally put a lot of pressure on women to get pregnant, as if their lives were somehow a failu...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is replaying Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, refresh your knowledge about ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is endometriosis? Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition which affects one in ten women. The main sym...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is playing Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, discover ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is International Women’s Day? Every year, International Women’s Day falls on March 8th. It’s a global celebration of women’s achieveme...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is replaying Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, refresh your knowledge about ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. Public discussion around the issue of consent has been greatly increased in recent years, thanks to the MeToo movemen...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is playing Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, discover ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is benevolent sexism? Discussions of sexism are commonplace in public discourse. And despite government policies aimed to ensure equal...

To celebrate International Women's Day, which falls on March 8th, Bababam is replaying Do You Really Know episodes which look at the struggle against inequalities between women and men. All week long, refresh your knowledge about ideas and concepts which promote female empowerment. What is body positivity ? Body positivity has taken over social media in the last few years. The movement is based on...

What is an authoritarian regime? On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine, provoking a war. An authoritarian regime is a form of government which monopolises authority and restricts political freedoms. Such regimes have strong central power and little accountability to their population. Authoritarianism is effectively the opposite of democracy. The term has come back in...

What is the Donbas region?   War has been raging in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded the country on February 24th. Understanding the conflict requires knowledge of the territory under attack, including specific regions like the Donbas, which you’ll have heard mentioned over and over again recently. It’s a 6500-square-mile region in eastern Ukraine, which shares a border with Russia to the east...

What is the Swift Network? Based in Brussels and founded in 1973, Swift is one of the most important networks of financial and banking messaging services. It takes the form of a cooperative of banks, covering over 200 countries and more than 11,000 financial establishments. It allows banks to communicate with one another across international borders in a secure, automated and rapid way. Why is it...

Who is Volodymyr Zelensky ? This man only began a career in politics in 2019, when he became Ukrainian president after a campaign of just a few months. Fast forward less than three years and former actor Volodymr Zelensky is now commander in chief of a country under large-scale military invasion. Let’s discuss the remarkable rise to prominence of an unlikely presidential candidate. Can you tell me...

What is a 419 scam? You’ve almost certainly been targeted by 419 scams many times. They most commonly come in the form of an unknown sender requesting money by email. It’s also known as advance fee fraud, a kind of fraud which is as old as time, but has nevertheless seen a resurgence in the internet age.  It’s often a rich heir who just happens to be stricken with an incurable illness, promising t...

What is the Barnum effect? Have you ever felt like your horoscope was written just for you? Or a fortune’s cookie advice seemed incredibly relevant? You may be surprised, but it’s actually not such a coincidence after all. This psychological phenomenon is known as the Barnum effect. It’s a cognitive bias that occurs when people believe that generic personality descriptions and statements apply spe...

What is an endemic? Despite the Omicron wave, many European countries are beginning to loosen Covid-related restrictions. Some have lifted health passes and relaxed travel restrictions, while others have reopened public places and put an end to facemask requirements. In England, as of February 24th, people with Covid-19 are no longer legally required to self-isolate. Governments and international...

What is coolsculpting? Linda Evangelista shares photos of what she calls disfiguring CoolSculpting effects. Just a couple of weeks ago, 90s catwalk star Linda Evangelista shared an emotional post on Instagram. The model revealed she had left the public eye for the last five years to hide the disastrous results of a coolsculpting procedure. She has decided to sue Zeltiq Aesthetics, the company who...

What is libido? First of all, let’s get it straight. Libido and sexual desire aren’t the same thing. Sexual desire is psychological, while libido is linked to hormone activity. Findigs from by the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles were released in May 2021. Reports indicated that intimacy between British couples had halved during the first Covid lockdown period. It wasn’t just the...

What is cholesterol? We’ve all more or less got a vague idea of what cholesterol is. The thick waxy substance has gained a reputation as a silent killer, due to its link with heart problems and being impossible to detect without a blood test. But it’s also essential for many bodily functions. Cholesterol is a type of fat, so it can’t travel around the body on its own. It moves through our blood sy...

What is Uncharted? Adventure film Uncharted was finally released on February 16th, 2022, after more than a decade’s worth of delays. Aside from the newly released film and the video game it’s based on, the Uncharted franchise also includes a novel, a behind-the-scenes book, a comic book, a board game, two motion comics, and seven soundtrack albums or singles. Let’s look back on its rapid rise to p...

What is a Ponzi scheme?   You may have seen the recently released Netflix documentary about the Tinder Swindler, Simon Leviev, or Shimon Hayut to give him his birth name. Between 2017 and 2019s, he conned a series of women out of their money, extorting nearly $10M in total. Leviev’s criminal activity is an example of what’s known as a Ponzi scheme. This form of fraud is named after Charles Ponzi,...

What is Kingdom Hearts? In today’s episode, we’re talking about a video game concept that might seem like the stuff of fan fiction, but nevertheless became a reality. Kingdom Hearts was first released on the PS2 twenty years ago and it’s a meeting of two universes that really have nothing to do with each other: Disney animations and Final Fantasy, Japan’s best known RPG franchise. The series has b...

Who is Agatha Christie? Following on from the highly successful Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, Kenneth Branagh’s second Agatha Christie adaptation was released on February 9th 2022. This time it’s the turn of Death on the Nile to get the big-screen treatment. Let’s take the time to reflect on Agatha’s Christie legacy. The renowned mystery writer is by far the best-selling novelist of all ti...

To celebrate Valentine's Day on February 14th, Do You Really Know is ready to cover a whole host of subjects linked to love and desire! From trends like sologamy and sneating, to the emergence of female viagra, spend all week learning about the concepts that surround our love lives in the 21st century. What is pansexuality? More and more celebrities are talking about their sexuality. Just two week...

To celebrate Valentine's Day on February 14th, Do You Really Know is ready to cover a whole host of subjects linked to love and desire! From trends like sologamy and sneating, to the emergence of female viagra, spend all week learning about the concepts that surround our love lives in the 21st century. What is sexual entitlement? Back in 2018, an online study of 7,000 Swiss young adults was publis...