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Untold
Millions of perfect aesthetic photos are posted on Instagram every day. In gossip portals we can read about famous people, on the other hand in mass media there’s a lot of bad news and politics (sometimes they are the exact term). Does your life mean less than the life of Robert Lewandowski? Obviously no. But…
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Too much of Valentine’s Day? There is a solution
Every year, when February is knocking on the door, many people start to fear and worry about what to do on that unfortunate day when love wins. Are you spending Valentine’s Day alone again, watching on social media how everyone pretends that their relationship is perfect? Instead of getting sad, gather a group of friends…
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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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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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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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What’s the deal with football? – Trying to understand global phenomena
I am not a football fan, and I have never been. But one of my clearest childhood memories is the World Cup half-final from 2014. Do you remember? The German National Team defeated Brazil in its very own country with 7:1 in front of the world’s eyes. The fact that the simple number “7:1” still…
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The pearl of the Balkans – in the footsteps of Brutalism in Skopje!
In terms of architecture, Skopje is one of the most unusual cities in Europe, and maybe even in the world. It is said that this city has more brutalist architecture per square kilometer than any other city in the world. I invite you to take a short trip around Skopje, in the footsteps of Brutalism,…
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