What makes violent men violent?
by Verónica Jara Gómez S4ESB When a woman is sexually assaulted, is her sobriety or clothing responsible for what happened?…
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What it takes to get to the Moon…And further
by Thomas Van den Wyngaert S5NLA “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” – the famous…
I’ve got nothing to say.
I feel like I have nothing important to share with you. Whatever I write about, someone knows more about it than I do, someone would come up with a better analogy to explain it, and someone would write about it better than I ever could. So what is the point?
Behind the Iron Curtain
“When I was your age”. This is probably the most often used phrase by parents when giving a lecture. We all know that our parents grew up in a different generation, but could the world have been that much of a different place only a few decades ago? For the millions of Europeans that grew up behind the iron curtain, it was.
Le rêve aussi a son histoire
Le rêve, facette extraordinaire et majeure de l’existence humaine. En moyenne, nous rêvons une centaine de minutes par nuit, c’est-à-dire approximativement 2, 912, 000 minutes dans une vie. Un véritable pilier donc pour le développement de l’homme, qui y trouve une fascination continuelle.
Surrealism: a revolution against the ordinary
I think we all know the famous painting that reads “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” by Magritte, but do you know what art movement it belongs to? Surrealism, built to help people cope with the horrifying reality of their daily lives, joined together the real world, and the obscure world of dreams. Let’s dive into the history of this artistic revolution, that literally reached beyond reality
Hold your breath
How to hold your breath, metaphorically and otherwise – or what synchronised swimming, a sport with glittering swimsuits and slippery nose clips, can teach us about handling pressure.
L’apprentissage d’une langue : outil d’inclusion sociale ou symbole de résignation
L’acquisition de compétences linguistiques est bénéfique pour l’amélioration de nos capacités cognitives, notre compréhension du monde et reflèterait même l’adaptation de notre cerveau à notre environnement. Mais lorsque l’apprentissage est imposé par des circonstances au lieu d’être voulu, rendu presque obligatoire à cause d’une migration forcée, les efforts à fournir pour assimiler ces compétences paraissent surréalistes pour ceux qui doivent les acquérir.
Lazy? Or Just Really Good at Procrastinating?
We’ve all been there before. That time when you were given an important assignment with a deadline in a few weeks. At first, the deadline seems so far out of reach that you decide to postpone the work for a few days and busy yourself with other tasks. Soon those days turn into a week and you realise you have no more time left for your project. So, you open another can of coke and finally start that task, trying not to feel guilty about how much you have postponed it, while racing against the clock to get it done.
Crawling up your arm
By Charlotte Wiemann; double published in the BEE3 Magazine You know it well. A little creature. Sometimes hairy, sometimes as…