My Name is Street Kid
They are wandering in a wasteland, begging crowds for a coin. Outcast and left alone. Our world has up to an estimated 100 million…
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Fat Fights Back – And This Time, it’s Got Academia on its Side
Fat people: eating away at our world resources, our healthcare systems, even our very faith in humanity… at least, this is the idea that…
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Self Deception in Loving Obsession
Love is such an overpowering force in human life that we are ready to sacrifice too much for it. Even our own dignity. She…
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How I Became A Concentration Camp Guard
We have all heard about Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, and the atrocities that were committed there about seventy years ago. From the twelve thousand camps…
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Interplanetary Dreams – A Pre-selected Man to Travel to Mars
“Mars One will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. In the coming years, a demonstration mission, communication satellites, two rovers and several cargo…
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Beautiful Pain of Dissatisfied Poverty
Beautiful Pain is a dissection of two seemingly unrelated human states: beauty and ugliness. While on Holiday in Mexico, writer Jacob Sneed witnessed the…
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Are we alone in the universe?
Are we alone in the universe? A question that most people have asked themselves at some point in their lives. A UFO enthusiast reflects…
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Bad Boy – My Created Identity
It’s very easy to be influenced when you’re thirteen. Especially when you’re a self-conscious little boy from the suburbs, with no problems, no fraught…
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Notes from the Underground – Life as a Fixer
At the Last Bar at the End of the Universe I met a guy who was, by all appearances, utterly ordinary. He was tall,…
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Who Cares About Language – Maori Roots
Te Reo, the native tongue of the indigenous Māori people, is one of New Zealand’s official languages. However, less than 1% of the population…
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DOG (B)EAT DOG
Mariya Nikolova was one of Sofia’s volunteer dog-feeders, now helping the adoption of stray dogs in Germany and Austria. Her mother continues ‘the feeding…
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Travel Slow – Live The Journey
The other side of the world is just a few hours away. As we occupy ourselves with the in-flight meal and movie, 10,000 metres…
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Family vs Family – Detour into Dealing
After living through a traumatising sexual attack as a young child, Felicity struggled to go back to living her normal life in her small…
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Femen-ists: Artillery Exposed
Teresa Riemann and Theresa Lehmann are activists in the radical and controversial feminist organisation Femen. They walk the thin line between provocative demonstration and…
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The Saga of Kittenpants
When Amanda’s cat went missing last summer, she responded in a way that most people, including her sister, consider unorthodox. The twenty-nine-year-old French–American Fine…
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21st Century Bard
The role of the bard was once crucial in many cultures. Bringing the gift of storytelling, singing, and poetry, these entertainers were required to…
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Ayahuasca Healing – The Edge of Reality?
A year ago this month, I had my first encounter with the Amazonian psychoactive brew ayahuasca, ‘the vine of the dead’. Two close friends…
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My Beloved Blade
Self-harm is usually seen as a dark phenomena, undertaken by troubled individuals as a cry for help. Webs of secrecy, lies, and social taboos…
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Coming Home
A perfect family does not exist, as there is no perfect parent. To create and better yet, to maintain a family is undeniably hard…
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SLEEP PARALYSIS – TRAPPED IN A NIGHTMARE
If you thought nightmares on their own were horrifying enough, you may want to reconsider. Although it’s difficult to be precise about the total…
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Crying Out Loud – Sexual Discrimination
In our Western, self-proclaimed civilized societies, women and their bodies are in a terrible state when it comes to our safety. For a woman,…
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