The phrase “six degrees of separation” has its roots in the 1969 small-world experiment of Stanley Milgram. He distributed packages to citizens in Omaha and gave them only the most skeletal information about the unknown rec...
When Syrians took to the streets in March 2011, they rebelled not only against the ruling Assad family, but also against the obscurantism that had been imposed on them for decades. Art as a whole, and music in particular, have ...
Without realizing it, you are accustomed to the Eurocentric view of the world map: Europe is in the middle of the atlas and all other continents are gathered around. You don’t even question it, because this is how we were tau...
Climate change and its heightening impacts have been the center of domestic and international talk for decades. Its irreversible impacts on indigenous communities have both pushed for greater attention from governments and nong...
Global climate change is an issue which has haunted much of the industrialised world for the last decade. Almost all scientists, politicians, and people in general acknowledge industrialised nations’ culpability for the d...
Fifteen years ago the Canadian gold mine company Gabriel Resources approached the Romanian government with its intentions to mine Rosia Montana, the small commune in the heart of Transylvania, and its surroundings. If approved...