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  • Climate Change: You and your children are doomed

    Climate Change: You and your children are doomed

    The IPCC report recently published gives a very bleak assessment of our current climate condition, and warns of the worldwide consequences to come.

  • Instructions for Dancing – Nicola Yoon

    Instructions for Dancing – Nicola Yoon

    Hello again, my dear friends and book lovers!  I have another post for you today, and this time, it’s a book that’s all about love. Love lost, love gained, new and old love, and the risks that come with opening yourself up to love and all its complexities. If you’ve ever loved someone, anyone at…

  • Shards of Earth – Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Shards of Earth – Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Hello, hello, hello, my book-loving friends! It’s been too long. Long story short, I started a new full-time job, got into community work, and am in the process of making a lot of other changes in my life right now. It’s been very hectic, but also very rewarding. As such, reading has taken a bit of a…

  • What’s Next for Marvel? – An Outlook for a Hopeful Future

    What’s Next for Marvel? – An Outlook for a Hopeful Future

    Back in 2020, amongst all the doom and gloom of the pandemic, we were still reeling from the flashbang that Disney had thrown at us in the form of Avengers: Endgame. It culminated an extremely long saga (for modern standards anyways, it was no Coronation Street… Fun fact, that show has been running for 61 years!),…

  • WTF is: Moneyval?

    WTF is: Moneyval?

    The infamous Moneyval test has dominated Maltese political discourse for the past year. Aside from whether Malta will pass or not, the process remains a cloudy concept to most. So, wtf is Moneyval?

  • The Power – Naomi Alderman

    Hello, my fellow book lovers!  I am back with another review! It has been a while since I read a book that made such an impact on me. It took me some time to finish this book due to other commitments, but when I was reading, I was ENGROSSED. This is a book that I…

  • 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…

  • Covid vaccine technologies work. Here’s how.

    Covid vaccine technologies work. Here’s how.

    They all have one thing in common, with the necessary funding and international cooperation, this technology will defeat the pandemic, and many more to come.

  • Culture is not a Career.

    Culture is not a Career.

    Perhaps after COVID, we should not ‘return to normal’ but commence a return to constant change.

  • 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…