Zine making: A DIY approach to mental health
Turning feelings into zines is what one woman is doing to help cope with mental illness. In Berlin for a workshop called ‘Mini Zines,…
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Animal Communication
Do you believe in ESP? What about telepathy, intuitive communication, or a sixth sense? Marta Williams does. As an animal communicator, she works with…
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The King of Etiquette – Overcoming Asperger’s
Asperger syndrome is an autistic spectrum disorder characterised by difficulties in social and nonverbal communication. Differing from other autistic disorders, in that the linguistic…
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The Color of the Sound – Living with Synesthesia
‘Dog’ is green, ‘sky’ is pink, ‘door’ always turns to the left, and consonants elongate the words they’re contained in. No, this is not…
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Crystal Clarity – A Star Child’s Story
We’ve all met someone who seems like they’ve lived a million lives. Or a child whose intuition, understanding and emotional intelligence outshine those of…
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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 PROBLEM WITH PORN : AN EMPIRICAL OR METAPHYSICAL QUESTION?
Many of us have a long history of looking at pornography, a history that traces back to the pre-web era. At the same time,…
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The Great Programmer Within
Modern society continues the age-old tradition of searching for answers. What is considered and not considered truth advances and recedes like the waves on…
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The Friction Between Fact and Fiction
2012 saw the release of Dutch author Maan Leo’s successful debut novel Ik ben Maan (I Am Maan), in which she exposes a semi-autobiographical…
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How to See What is Not There
Our perceptual experiences are shaped by what we encounter in the world. If we want to visually experience the heights of Mount Fuji, for…
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CONFUSION AT FUSION
Summer in Berlin is marked by much celebration. Perhaps the most beloved of these celebrations is the progressive Fusion Festival, an underground music and…
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REALITY OF THE WRITTEN WORD – LIQUID FREELANCE
This guy is a freelance journalist working for various newspapers around the world. In the Italian media sphere he has collaborated for over six-months…
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Under The Sleeve Sleeps The Beast – Information in the Digital Age
In the last years we have witnessed a considerable amount of noise coming from big media companies, fighting for the right to keep their…
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DEFEATING SILENCE BY ART
Ivan Boskovic is a Berlin-based artist whose forms of expression include drawings, performances, videos and writing. He is concerned with subjects such as gender…
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THE AGE OF MASS OPINION
Technology is a defining feature of the modern era. Utterly inundated by an endless stream of information, pressured to keep up with the latest…
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HELPING GHANA HELPING ME
We talked to Ines, a student of ecology, who volunteered in Ghana last summer. She taught children of two villages, Azani and Butre, about…
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THE COUNTRY IS BURNING ALIVE – TURKEY 2013
Burning eyes under a gas mask. Empty tear gas cans on the ground. Burning trees with no fire brigades. Thousands and thousands of people…
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DEBRIS OF THE SOUL
Maybe in all of our adventures in life, we leave behind bits of soul debris, intertwining ourselves and our souls with all that we…
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PIRATE 2.0
A student from a third world country confess us a crime he commits on a daily basis while he defends it. A story of…
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ONLINE WHORES
Berni Mayer is a popular German media writer, novelist, musician, and blogger. We met on a cold December night in the East End (Berlin)…
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GUILTINESS OF THE TURKS
She sees herself as a citizen of the world. She was born and raised in Turkey, studied in the United States and currently lives…
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