https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOzt57mfyA While our country looks like it might be coming apart at the seams, it’s good to revisit, every once in a while, moments when it did work. And that’s not so that we can feel nostalgic about a lost...
Every year in Poland we ritualistically lament the country’s low-level readership, but we are yet to see the state take any meaningful action. What are the consequences of this lack of regulation, when readership is clearly not important enough for...
Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a such a high benchmark of societal acceptance? Vox Feminae investigates the history of asexuality and aromanticism: valuing emotional connections over physical love, pathologized by psychologists and medical professionals, even at...
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So holds the third and most famous of the “three laws” originally articulated by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Even when it was first published in the late nineteen-sixties, Clarke’s third...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=playlist If asked to name our favorite French composer of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, most of us would reach straight for Erik Satie, being able to bring to mind only his most famous pieces, the Gymnopédies and...
The student protests in Serbia have persisted for seven months, yielding widespread and diverse effects. All state universities are still blocked and primary and secondary school teachers ceased work from January to April 2025. Lawyers went on strike throughout the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_Iqbvm3Dk Convetional European diets often boast of meat-heavy signature dishes. Austria and Germanyare still at the top in per capita meat consumption, yet they lead when it comes to a meatless diet. A total of 15% of their combined populations...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHy9FOblt7Y Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14th century B.C.E.. Likely...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw Given the dominance YouTube has achieved over large swathes of world culture, we’d all expect to remember the first video we watched there. Yet many or most of us don’t: rather, we simply realized, one day in the mid-to-late...
In Russian the word for ‘border’, granitsa, carries a range of meanings which blur its definition as a territorial and administrative demarcation line. They include boundary, borderland, limit, margin, confine, threshold, littoral and frontier. The first syllable, gran’, translated as...
