It’s not surprising that the almost one-year old, boosting MONOCLE Magazine has its own Quality of Life Index, which is updated weekly. This top-of-the-notch magazine, which is merely for the good-feeling (social) elite who wish themselves the best life possible, is unlike any other glossy. It’s about the things that make life really beautiful, holistic, [...]

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The battle for the new UN Youth representatives in the Netherlands, has started again. On her website, current representative Sandra van Beest, has posted a video appeal to make the Dutch youths enthusiastic about this one-year full-time job, which comprises traveling around the world during a year, meeting a lot of interesting people (among [...]

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What is ‘culture’? There are definitions under which every non-biological human characteristic counts as culture. And ‘development’ is just as difficult to pin down. Every change could be called development – but then nothing ever stays the same. So there are countless possible combinations of the two concepts. When you introduce new farming techniques [...]

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Each summer philosophical thinkers in politics, economics, ecology and the arts meet at the Tällberg Forum in Sweden to try and come up with new initiatives to tackle the ecological problems facing the planet. The peaceful lakeshore setting is intended to encourage alternative thought and practical problem solving.
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“If the bees disappeared, “man would have only four years of life left.”
Albert Einstein
A German theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world – the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. [...]

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