This August, only 3 months after BTS’s much awaited comeback, …
It’s the real thing! Or is it? – BTS’s Coca-Cola controversy
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Why We Need to Imagine Again: Kohei Saito and the Chaos We’re Living Through
It is interesting that we have built a system where your retirement fund, your savings, your rent, are all basically chips on a casino table. And somehow, we have convinced ourselves that is okay. That it is okay for someone like Trump to have this much power over everyone’s future. This made me think of a book that I read last year by the Japanese Philosopher Kohei Saito, by the name Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, and Marx in the Anthropocene.
Journalism Is The First Draft Of History
March 2024. Award Winning investigative journalist Walid Batrawi (1969, Jerusalem) left his home in Ramallah after working for almost 30 years as a journalist and witness of modern day Palestine. As one of the few Palestinian voices left he continues his work from his new home in Toronto. His most recent project being the crossborder collaborative Gaza Project with Forbidden Stories.
Why Gen Z Is Not Going to Save the World
Is Gen Z actually as environmentally conscious, woke, and progressive as thought to be? Or have they turned their backs on everyone’s hopes and dreams? And why is everyone but Gen Z seemingly able to rid themselves of all responsibility without consequence?
Race to the White House: Celebrity influence in the 2024 US election
Celebrities have recently been weighing in on the 2024 presidential race in various ways, with both political figures and Hollywood stars endorsing and getting behind candidates in hopes of influencing the outcome in November.
‘Watching the Universe Unfold Together’. An interview with John Conway, the Director of the Onsala Space Observatory.
Utblick magazine interviewed Professor John Conway and discussed about astronomy’s advantage in explaining complex scientific ideas through images and the importance of international collaboration for scientific discoveries and progress.
Threads of Sumud: The Tapestry of Palestinian Culture and Resilience
Literally translated as ‘steadfastness’ from Palestinian Arabic, the term sumud …
One year since the terror at Oslo Pride – now what?
One year after the terror at Oslo Pride, the wounds still linger. The queer community, scarred by the tragic event, prepares for this year’s celebration with nervousness and anxiety. Threats of violence, increasing hate speech, and a lack of government support cast a shadow over the upcoming Pride, writes Staff Writer Anita Kaksrud.
Another consequence of global warming: decreasing linguistic diversity
Did you know that a language dies every 40 days? Utblick’s staff writer Dominique Keizer delves into this issue and explains how the world loses linguistic diversity due to global warming.