A time for Slacktivism slacktivism /ˈslaktɪvɪz(ə)m/ Noun INFORMAL the practice of supporting a political or social cause by means such as social media or online petitions. Characterized as involving very little effort or commitment. There are many positive stories that have emerged from our current scenario. Touching acts […]
Only four weeks ago Four weeks doesn’t seem like a long time ago. But everyone who has spent the past four weeks in self-isolation will agree, that it feels like an eternity. Even though the Virus had already killed hundreds of people in Italy at that time, most of us […]
“I don’t trust these ATM machines. I always withdraw my money at the bank employee’s station. I want my money to be handled by humans, not by robots”, says the strange old lady standing in front of me in the bank queue. Her statement makes me nervous. Apparently what I consider […]
Information is power! This has been a rough year. And it’s only March! Winter has just decided to arrive although we are already suffering from a massive lack of Vitamin D and it feels like summer is a distant memory. We rely on a crazy amount of coffee hoping to feel […]
Europe has always been a place of refuge for many. The people migrating to Europe in the hope for a better life have become more and more. At the same time, Europe appears to get less and less safe for its inhabitants. A lot of people are coping with unemployment in […]
For all of us having spent summer 2015 in Athens, Italy or Spain, the refugee crisis was never only a rigid statistical graph or some abstract numbers flickering on a television screen. Since the probability of us being born in a country falling apart is only a bat of an […]