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Alfonsina Storni: ”I’m going to sleep too”
Photographer: ThoughtCatalogue via Pixabay. LIFE. On October, Saturday 22nd, 1938, a 46-year-old woman wanders in Buenos Aires towards the train station; she buys a one-way ticket to Mar del Plata. She
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Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea – part 1
Photographer: BarbeeAnne via Pixabay LIFE. Ernest Hemingway presence in La Havana, Cuba, is irrefutable for any wanderer. In La Bodeguita del Medio you can drink mojitos (rum with mint and sugar) that
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The liberal case for basic income
Photographer: geralt via Pixabay WELFARE. The idea of basic income has a long history. In Europe, during the last decades, it has transformed from a theoretical approach to the practical implementation
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Can love be explained scientifically?
Photo:Anne Edelstam LOVE. The “discovery museum”, or Palais de la Découverte, is trying to answer that question with this unusual and fun exhibition. And what a better place to show it than in Paris, the
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UN and the WHO call for decriminalisation of drugs
Photo: Pixabay HUMAN RIGHTS. United Nations and the World Health Organization call for decriminalisation of all drug users and possession of drugs for personal use. In a joint statement on ending
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Jorge Luis Borges visits Machu Picchu
LIFE. On Sunday, 25 April 1965, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, a 66-year-old, got off a plane at Lima’s international airport. He was accompanied by his student, the educated, young and beautiful
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What drives a change?
Photographer: Pixabay LIFE. Why do people start truly valuing what they love when things deteriorate or worse yet when they lose them entirely? People are more motivated to move away from something they
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Ann Jaederlund – Ensamtal
Photographer: ThoughtCatalogue via Pixabay. POETRY. Ann Jäderlund first became famous in Sweden in the late 80s and early 90s with a pair of books that blended pastoral imagery with experimental cut-up
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The Left is not the biggest threat against bourgeois values
Right-wing ghosts. Illustration: C Altgård / Opulens POLITICS. They are explicitly anti-left but represent a more significant threat to freedom than the left. The right-wing collectivists obsession with
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What’s your picture of the future?
Photographer: Wokandapix via Pixabay FUTURE. How can you build a picture of the future that isn’t dependent on the past? First ask yourself, does the way I see myself correlate or interfere with that future?
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A British sculptor in Paris
ART. A rare occasion to view Barbara Hepworth’s (1903-1975) works of art presents itself this winter at Musée Rodin, in collaboration with Tate. The museum is an ancient palace situated in a wonderfully
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Allen Ginsberg visits Machu Picchu
EXPERIENCE. On January 20th 1960, Allen Ginsberg flew from New York and landed at the Los Cerrillo’s airfield in Santiago. The poet was bearded and short-sighted, had dark eyes with optical lenses and
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It's time for a paradigm shift
FUTURE. Imagine waking up in 2035 with a robot serving you breakfast, your smart house operating by a code and that you are receiving a message about your salary paid in cryptocurrency. Often it is a matter
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When the head of the FBI wrote articles in a Nazi-magazine
EXTREMISM. What did the head of FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and the future leader of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, have in common 1957? The answer is the magazine ”The American Mercury”.
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Joy - by Maria Shenkman
HAPPINESS. Do you remember how carefree you felt as a child during the holiday time? The smell of the tree, family gatherings and presents brought so much joy and excitement. Have you ever noticed how
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What is the meaning of life?
LIFE. There can be many views of this question, including to simply live. I would answer – to fulfil dreams or realize plans. A few questions come to mind, fulfil how and realize what exactly? How is it
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Globalism for Dummies – the case for polycentric governance
Source: Pixabay In Defense of Globalism Rowman & Littlefield WORLD. According to many studies, the 2010s was the most prosperous decade in global history. Globalisation, often defined as higher levels
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Greco -the precursor of modernity
The queues have circled long to get into the ancient palace to view this wild and unclassifiable genius. However, France has been on strike for nearly two weeks now, with hardly any public transport working,
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Not everything legitimate is good - by Vladan Lausevic
DIGNITY. The principle of human security means also accepting the fact that no human is a single story or has only one main identity but that all of us have a right to life, freedom and security as
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Be careful what you wish for!
LIFE. We all know the irony behind movies such as Bedazzled and similar stories. The funny part is that most of these stories have the same moral or message, “be careful what you wish for”. So what is
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