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Poaching – a threat to species
Around 30,000 species go extinct every year. 30,000 species lost the last individual of their own kind, getting wiped off earth. The causes for that are various – our natural environment is having a tough time right now. We are encountering climate change, biodiversity loss, and much more. However, one key factor for extinction is…
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Lidija Dimkovska: A symbol of young Macedonian literature
Lidija Dimkovska, known as one of the most important representatives of young Macedonian literature, has gained international recognition as an author, poet, translator, and essayist. She was born in Skopje in 1971, where she studied comparative literature later. She obtained a Ph.D. Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest and has been awarded several prizes…
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Rats rock!
Certain songs make us feel this uncontrollable urge to dance – or at least to discreetly tap the foot to the beat. This phenomenon was thought to occur solely in humans until a new study by the University of Tokyo was published recently. They were able to observe the same behaviour in rats. To investigate…
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Hayao Miyazaki: Animating Life
Do you remember which was the first movie directed by Miyazaki that you ever saw? I do, I was 5 and Spirited Away scared the life out of me, as well as a lot of children at that time. But I remember loving the movie, and wanting more of this kind. So my dad made…
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Skopje you will be clean
It may seem pretentious to you, but the hygiene in our city is really high. The parks, streets, and lawns around Skopje are not what they were many years ago: full of all kinds of garbage, leftover food, empty bottles, discarded packaging… Let’s not lie, it is far from a metropolis as befits a European…
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VOICES December 2022
As another year is coming to an end many tend to have a look back on how we spent the time we were given this year? Sometimes it’s good to take a deep look at the beautiful and peculiar things that are there rather than things that are not. The things that can happen instead…
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What now? Advice when choosing career paths
Picking a life path is never easy, yet we all have to make such choices more often than once. Whether choosing a university after finishing high school, deciding about continuing to a Master’s program, or short-listing companies when looking for a job, young adults may feel lost in the sea of options. This article aims…
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Beer, the golden liquid
Beer, also known as the golden liquid, is one of the oldest beverages in the world. Some historical studies show that the first brewing process started by mistake when they were making bread between 3500-3100 BC in Mesopotamia, which is known as Iran nowadays. Beer was being drunk with a straw to filtrate pieces of…
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Future of our earth
What’s happening to our planet? Every day, each person consumes natural resources and impacts what will happen to our earth. It affects people already. This year alone, there have been considerable floods in Pakistan, killing over a thousand people, and colossal heat waves in China and Europe, killing people. Some islands, even countries like Kiribati…
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Nobel prizes
In Physics:Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have each conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information. Quantum mechanics is still a very abstract topic as nothing is happening…
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Models in Skopje – Oppressive or Empowering?
“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” According to Rachel Zoe, a famous US-American stylist and fashion pioneer, the way you dress yourself can be just as expressive as words. Fashion is communication and every outfit can be a statement. Since the rise of social media the fashion industry…
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