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The magical influence of the sounds around
On my third day in Skopje, I was asked to explore the city and focus on the sounds I hear. I’ve come to a point when I realized that sounds can have a big influence on our life and personal growth. Let me give an example of the influence. Before crossing the road, you should…
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7 million years of culture
After a long road of the weirdest consequences, we’re here. Living, doing art, working, singing, chilling. A fairly long time ago, we weren’t the only humans going around. Why is our species so successful, that we’re able to drive others extinct and eventually threaten our own survival? Primates started being around about 55 million years…
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Mending Hearts: Sashiko’s Artistic Healing in Japanese Culture
In a world where whispers of ancient wisdom are blended with the vibrant hues of existence lies a tapestry of wonder threaded by the delicate artistry of Sashiko. And within this unique fabric piece resides the heartbeat of Japanese culture that echoes through time, captivating the soul with its delicacy and shining the path to…
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Cloudy with a Chance of Lifelong Friendships
This article is a glimpse of my volunteering experience as a short-term volunteer for an ESC project in Zagreb, Croatia. Come and join me on this 1000-word journey, as I reminisce through my fondest memories of the month and a half spent on gardening, working with school children and forging lifelong friendships, all under Zagreb’s…
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History of the Romani People
“Gypsies”, “Kale”, “Gitanos”, “Manouches”, “Zingari”, “Romani”: those are some of the numerous names given to the Romani community across Europe. Except for the last one, which means “accomplished man”, these different names reveal an important feature of this nation: they are usually named and defined by the others. This led to a lot of misconceptions…
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Albanian – A Language without Resemblance
Albanian is an Indo-European language, the last representative of the Paleo-Balkan language sub-family. It is a rather unusual language in that, as the last representative of a sub-family of dead languages, it bears no resemblance to any other. In fact, Albanian is a language in a class of its own, using a Latin alphabet since…
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Exploring Archaeological Tattoo Discoveries
If I told you that tattooing is older than all the pyramids in the world, would you believe me? Well, this practice is indeed ancient and has been passed down through different cultures for generations until our days. I can’t say for certain if your parents would have been furious if you secretly got a…
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“Science-Fiction is torn between the desire for progress and the denunciation of its possible perversions” – Gérard Klein, french Sci-fi author
Origin of Science Fiction In the XIXth century, the progress of science inspired a lot of new fiction authors. Rather than to tell about old gods and magic, they wrote about stories taking place in a future relying on science instead of magic to imagine fantastic adventures made possible by the technological advances, and that…
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Inspiring Nature: The Birth and Influence of the Hudson River School
Here’s our new article ! This one is about an unknown artistic movement from the 19th century. Enjoy !
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Get ready for Eurovision 2023
It’s again the time of the year when there is one topic that nobody can’t avoid. Wherever you go, be it TikTok or your workplace there is a quite big chance to hear something about this brilliant Eurovision song contest. Basically, there are three different types of “Eurovision personalities”. The first one, where I’m including…
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The legacy of Toše Proeski
If there is one singer in Macedonia that everyone knows, it’s Toše Proeski. Whether it is grandmother or under twenty-years-old, it seems like they all have something to say. Toše Proeski was usually represented with glowing adjectives and it can be said that he was the pride of this country. Toše Proeski, born in 1981…
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