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How ‘Breaking Bad’ explains the universe of drugs – and its futile war against it
AMC’s Emmy Award-winning show Breaking Bad tonight runs its course after five successful seasons. Created by Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad follows the story of Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), a gifted yet underachiev...
Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Footprint: The Food Waste Challenge
If you bought 10 bags of shopping at the market, how would you feel about throwing 3 to 5 of those bags directly into the trash? It is estimated that 30-50% of all food purchased globally goes to waste. Every item of food we th...
Africa’s Resources: Blessing or Curse?
Sometimes I sit back and wonder whether we Africans are cursed or blessed. In particular, are our natural resources a blessing or a curse? Despite the plentiful resources in the continent of Africa, its people are living in abj...
A Mutual Split: Turkey and the EU
Orhan Pamuk’s article, “Europe is turning away from Turkey, and the rest of the world”, pleas for a Europe which engages with Turkey on the basis of enlightenment principles, rather than old-fashioned notions of Islamic e...
Rwanda-DR Congo Rebel Support Conflict: The Heart of the Matter
In his book “Politics”, Aristotle argued that man is a political animal, whose motive for action and reaction is ruled by need for wealth, safety and liberty. Aristotle goes on to argue that any state is like a united commu...
Calls for independence gain momentum in Europe
Early in 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron surprised everybody by agreeing to hold a referendum for Scottish independence before the end of his mandate. A few weeks ago, Alexander Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Na...
