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  • Cinema vs Streaming – What does the audience really want?

    Cinema vs Streaming – What does the audience really want?

    Recently, a whole series of arguments were spilling all over the internet on something quite interesting. A hotly debated topic that sure is bound to divide a lot of people is the whole point of whether cinemas are the best or streaming is better. It is intriguing, to say the least, and deals with a lot…

  • Bad Habits – Flynn Meaney

    Bad Habits – Flynn Meaney

    Hello, dear book lovers!  I hope your February is starting out well. Last month was a bit of a dry spell concerning reading, but I am aiming to make sure that this month is different. I must finish the book I already started as well as start a new book this month as a treat.…

  • Impactful Books I Read in 2020

    Hello again, fellow bookworms!  I hope that you’ve all been doing well. It’s been a rocky start to the new year so far, and I, for one, am trusting that things will get better soon. To lighten the mood, however, I would like to talk about certain books that made the crazy year of 2020…

  • Sparrow Alone – Mim Eichmann

    Sparrow Alone – Mim Eichmann

    Hey everyone!  It is a brand-new year, and I find myself feeling very optimistic about this one (fingers crossed!). I hope the holidays have treated you all well! I have been doing a lot of reading and spending time with my family. So how about we start 2021 with a book review? This book was…

  • Five Things That Might Make 2021 (a bit) better

    Five Things That Might Make 2021 (a bit) better

    2020. Words cannot begin to describe the rollercoaster of emotions that has been this year. We all thought that WW3 almost happening in January was as bad as it could get… Oh boy were we wrong. However, let’s try and make this different. Let’s not go about sulking saying “My oh my, everything is bad”.…

  • The 2020 Nobel Prizes in Physics & Chemistry

    The 2020 Nobel Prizes in Physics & Chemistry

    The annual Nobel prizes celebrate, in part, the very best of the latest research and discoveries in physics and chemistry. With previous winners, including household names Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, there is no doubt about the prestige which comes with winning such an award. This year saw 5 laureates across the two fields, with…

  • Amari and the Night Brothers – B.B. Alston

    Amari and the Night Brothers – B.B. Alston

    Hello everyone, long time no see!  It’s been a while. I’ve been in the most dreadful reading slump lately, as well as been focusing on doing some freelance work, upskilling and building my own website. However, I am happy to say that things have been going well and participating in this book tour was a…

  • Belarus – The Beginning of a New Era?

    With all the global upheaval that 2020 has brought with it, it is interesting to take a look east-ward, where right between Poland and Russia, the state of Belarus has now been in turmoil for more than 4 months. On the 9th of August 2020, President Alexander  Lukashenko declared that he had once again won…

  • Has COVID-19 made the United Nations more relevant than ever?

    Amidst a global pandemic, where every world nation is struggling with ensuring the health and safety of all its citizens and is plagued by multitude of deaths, the world is in dire need for all its nations to come together and help each other survive. It would be handy to have an international institution that…

  • Nagorno-Karabakh: The Powder Keg among Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Iran

    On the 27th of September 2020, international newspapers reported renewed fighting in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region – a headline easily lost amid the glut of Coronavirus-related news items and as easily forgotten due to the relative obscurity of the region. Slightly smaller than the total area of Kyoto and roughly the size of 13…