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Global Hobo Eating is a spiritual practice, and if you do it right, it will boost your health and your mindfulness.” Vaḷḷi, a female meditation guru with a shaved head and clinking anklets, is giving a short lecture on Ayurvedic beliefs.
Internation Concerts running in the bedroom closet, Kim Jong-un’s rescue missions, lianas in the subway. It sounds like the plot of a very weird science fiction novel but no, these are just some of the contents of the bizarre dreams’ epidemic spreading alongside the Covid-19.
Among the sea of signs welcoming Greta Thunberg at the climate strike in Bristol last month, one stood out. Despite not having the artistic finesse of the others, those two words written with black paint on crumpled cardboard hit like a punch: "End Ignorance".
Internation When Mirko talks about his van, he sounds like a proud daddy. He even gave him a name, Ginginsbangi Van, and always refers to it as “my home.” Mirko Zambon, 25, is part of the Vanlifers generation, a group of free-spirited Millenials who live in custom-made vans. They follow a nomadic lifestyle that allows them to live, work and travel on a very low budget.
Syria is at a breaking point. In the past weeks it has been experiencing one of the worst humanitarian emergencies since the start of the nine-year civil war. Currently, over three million civilians are trapped in Idlib, the last rebel-held territory at the Turkish border. About half of them have been forcibly displaced from other parts of the country.
When I read that Scotland might soon become the first country to make sanitary pads and tampons free, I found myself wishing we had moved on from these female hygiene products in favour of more eco-friendly ones.
At first glance, it seems a brewery like any other. Young men with their sleeves rolled up to the elbows sit around wooden tables, sipping their first pint after a long day at the office. Light rock music and the sound of beers tapped plays in the background. But what makes BrewDog AF different is that you cannot order anything alcoholic.
Internation When my best friend and I decided to go on a totally unplanned two-week trip to Morocco with the idea of travelling mainly by hitchhiking, more than a few people told us we had lost our minds.
The environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) is training specific teams to provide post-arrest support for its activists ahead of the next uprising beginning 7 October. Their tactic is to raise awareness about the climate emergency by using non-violent civil disobedience and creating maximum chaos in the judicial system. And it is working.
Vulcano Statale La versione di Marley and The Wailers di No Woman, No Cry occupa il 37esimo posto nella lista delle 500 Greatest Songs of All Time di Rolling Stones. Inizialmente inserito nell’album Natty Dread del 1974, poi diventato molto più celebre nella versione live del 1975, il brano oggi resta uno dei più apprezzati dell’intera carriera di Bob Marley.
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