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Bhutan: Hometown of Gross National Happiness
You’ve probably come across the concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at some point in your life. To put it briefly, this concept is a monetary measure of all final goods and services produced and sold by a country in a given time. Gross Domestic Product is one of the most used data in the…
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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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LET’S TALK ABOUT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Words have a magical power. They bring either the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. – Sigmund Freud WHAT İS PSYCHOTHERAPY AND WHO İS PSYCHOLOGİST? Psychotherapy is the process of safely exploring your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and personal life about yourself and others, in the company of trained mental health professionals. It is speech therapy…
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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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Clean(sing) Skopje
Why would you roll a huge ball of trash through Skopje? Well, there can be multiple reasons, and one of them is to raise awareness of recycling and waste in a form of art performance. Art can be a powerful tool to raise awareness about waste and environmental problems. Cecilia (Cee) Martens and Holger Maik…
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Gap year: the secret of good mental health for students
At the end of high school, most of the young people are kind of lost and don’t know what to do after. It’s a very stressful period and choosing a specific field of study in university is usually hard. For a few years, a phenomenon appeared, particularly in Europe: the gap year! Let’s discover the…
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Cat or dog café for animal lovers
Have you ever wanted to have a cat or a dog but you can’t because you don’t have the necessary conditions at your home? Cat or dog café is a solution for you! The concept of cat café originated in Taiwan in the 1990s and has since gained popularity in various countries around the world.…
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Premier-league derby in front of my eyes
The Premier League is the best championship in the world of football, maybe not always be the most competitive, but without exception, the most interesting to watch and always full of surprises. Every year Premier League clubs spend the most funds on reinforcements compared to any other league in the world and more and more…
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Sun – best friend or enemy?
It’s a hot and beautiful summer day, you are spending time with your friends in the park. Soon you notice your inflamed, painful and red skin. Sunburns are a pretty common thing, for someone they are even more ordinary than to others. Sun, our light and hot star in the sky, usually makes us happier…
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A brief History of the transistor
If I were to ask you right now, what is the most important discovery of the 20th century, what would you say? Probably Television or the World Wide Web… But what if I tell you that the most important discovery during the 20th century is the transistor, would you believe me? It may be hard…
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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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