Is 2022 the year of recovery?
The third year of pandemic is beginning and everyone is wondering if it will be the last year we worry about Covid-19. Hope is not lost, but the Omicron variant has reframed the entire trajectory of...
Category: Commentary
What the Ghislaine Maxwell case revealed about female sex offenders
Poco Kernsmith, Wayne State University; Erin B. Comartin, Wayne State University, and Sheryl Kubiak, Wayne State University British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted for her role in...
Self-compassion to reduce New Year anxiety
New Year's Eve is supposed to be one of the most joyous occasions to celebrate. No matter where you look - television, social media, emails, family, friends, co-workers - there seems to be great...
Is Europe ready for power outages?
A potential war between Russia and Ukraine could have severe consequences for the whole of Europe. Even if the two nations manage to postpone what many see as an inevitable full-scale conflict over...
Josh Duggar: guilty
Ex reality TV star Josh Duggar was found guilty of both receiving and possessing child sexual abuse materials in a trial that had lasted ten days on Thursday the 9th December. Duggar came to fame as...
Should you adopt a pet for Christmas?
In recent years, people have been encouraged to adopt dogs or cats instead of buying them. All over the world, there are shelters with animals waiting to be welcomed into a permanent and loving home....
Russia and Ukraine: neither war nor peace
Tensions are rising between Russia and Ukraine. Various Western politicians, diplomats and analysts warn that a full-scale war between the two countries is a matter of time. But is the situation in...
The problem with actors
Eddie Redmayne recently said that he, a cis man, playing the part of trans woman Lili Elbe in the biopic of her life The Danish Girl, was ‘a mistake’. Well, of course. The casting garnered a lot...
Electric cars during an energy and gasoline crisis: green technologies in Venezuela
Why is Venezuela interested in electric cars after having the cheapest gasoline in the world? A few years ago, while the rest of the world awakened to the idea of electric cars, in Venezuela it was...
Omicron: what everyone wants to know
The new SARS-CoV-2 variant was reported a few days ago in South Africa. Since then, it has been identified in Belgium, Botswana, United Kingdom, Israel, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia,...