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How does the consumption of recreational drugs feed violence in Latin America ?
Selected for a student exchange program, I stepped into Brazil for the first time in July 2012. I was a 19-year-old innocent girl very passionate about the Portuguese language and Brazilian culture. My biggest culture shock was undoubtedly while entering a bank: security revolving doors equipped with a metal detector and the presence of armed…
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Human entertainment at the cost of animals
The very idea of locking animals so that people can see them sounds wrong. And this has become a reality that people live with every day. So, is a place to watch species that have their home elsewhere totally bad? It all, of course, started with the rich who wanted to show off their goods.…
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Imagine, Improvise, Integrate!
Creative writing and storytelling are powerful tools to address issues of stereotyping, discrimination, and hate speech. It helps people express anger, helplessness, exclusion and similar feelings in a constructive way. These creative methods are focused on speaking up, raising your voice about injustice, racism, sexism, etc., and hate speech that is usually used against marginalized…
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Modern love
Clammy palms, a racing heart, and butterflies in the stomach – almost everyone knows this state. Love… Getting into a love relationship today is entirely different from the times of our ancestors. It was different only 20 years ago. What has changed? What is love in the time of Tinder?
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VOICES FEBRUARY 2022
After January – the month of New Year’s resolutions – it’s time for February, the year’s shortest month. And with it another edition of our magazine! Probably most of you associate the second month of the year with the holiday of lovers. So how is it with this love? Check topic of the month! You…
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Is smart manufacturing really smart?
The notion of Industry 4.0 or smart manufacturing is a natural step of the ongoing “numerical convergence” with information technology (IT) on the one hand and operational technology (OT) on the other hand. It has appeared at the beginning of the 2010s. It has undergone incredible development since, so much so that the main question…
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Human-like robots are more and more sophisticated
Humanoid robots have long been sci-fi characters, but they are perfecting every day. Engineered Arts, a UK-based designer, and manufacturer of such robots, recently showed off one of its most life-like creations with its last bot Ameca, which can display what appears to be the most human-like facial expressions by a robot to date.
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Kawah Ijen, into the lungs of hell
“I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulfur mine is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life.” – Booker T. Washington Indonesia is located on the Ring of Fire, the most seismically…
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How people killed a Sea. The history of eco-disaster in central Asia.
Sound of water and pleasant feel of the wind on the skin. Lots of boats were coming back from fishing. The fish smell was saturating everything in the harbour. People were busy transporting cargo to local canneries. Some people were sunbathing on the beach. It might look like that in the late 1960s in Aralsk…
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Shein – Fast fashion at its worst
“Fast fashion isn’t free. Someone, somewhere is paying.” – Lucy Siegle It’s a widespread fact that fast fashion is problematic. Poor quality of the clothes, severe work conditions in the producing countries and the promotion of excessive consumption through unbelievable low prices. But what if the fastest growing fashion brand in the Western World is…
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