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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Earth’s Tragic Trajectory

    Earth’s Tragic Trajectory

    In our booming global society, how will the tragic ends of secluded peoples lost, scale up?

  • Playing to Win

    Playing to Win

    As the US heads into yet another presidential election, what lies in store could determine the future of generations, and what’s at stake could set history’s course for a lifetime.

  • Striking a balance

    Striking a balance

    They say that the key to success in politics is pulling off a delicate balancing act. This can be applied to any major political party, be it in government or opposition. In terms of the latter, we can certainly apply the art of pulling off a balancing act to the current state of the Nationalist…

  • ASCS Budget Review 2021

    Coming up to this year’s budget, many people were very intrigued to see what issues were to be tackled and hopefully improved upon and many had quite high hopes. The main topic of this budget was obviously going to be Covid-19, as the pandemic has left a noticeable mark on Malta. It was made clear…

  • We Are All Problematic, So Why Should We Expect Fictional Characters to Be Perfect?

    Hey everyone! I’m back with a discussion post today. Recent life events, and discussions I see on Twitter about problematic people, authors, and fictional characters have made me think about how at certain points our outbursts concerning certain characters may be more harmful to our understanding of human nature than we think. Here are the…