A traditional charity football match in Venice
Everybody like Venice: its beauty, its romantic atmosphere, its ancient buildings… but there’s another lovely thing strictly related to Venice: the spritz, a famous orange coloured alcoholic drink. For Venice citizens aperitif time is a way to join friends, to have a break… to get drunk (since you don’t have to drive ‘cause there are no cars in the fish shaped isle!).
So… why not using the alcohol excuse to do something good?
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Filed Under Events, Food, History & traditions, Sport
When the boy-band is green
Ekoboys: a Swedish boy-band with a green thumb. Carl Johansson (aka CalleBoy), Ingemar Clemensson (aka IngeBoy), Martin Fermstad (aka MartyBoy) and Erik Lundin (aka E-LBoy) are four Swedish Environmental Engineering students from the University of Lund, and their most famous ballad, “Echo in my Heart”, talks about the state of the environment: toxic waste, global warming, polluted seas and …eco-engineers.
They are almost famous in their country and “Echo in my Heart” video has reached more than 16.000 visits on YouTube.
Could this be the next pop music trend?
Filed Under Art, Environment, Media & Society
Satyagraha!
Illustration by Lars Wannop
What does the word “slavery” suggest to you?
Chains? Whips? People starving? “Come on we’re in the 21st century” -you could say- “people’s got their own rights!”
And yet… let me tell you a story about last Monday.
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Filed Under Human Rights, Modern Life, Politics, World Health
Educate your children! Or pay the price for not doing so
Illustration by Valerie Gudenus
A high court in Sevilla, Spain, has decided: failing to educate your children is an offense against the law (in Spanish). In an unprecedented decision in Spain, the judge has condemned a mother to pay 14,000 euros to a boy beaten up by her 14-year-old son, claiming she had failed on his education because of “laxity and tolerance” to bad behavior.
I guess it’s a good thing that Justice starts educating parents to educate their children. Someone had to, right?
Filed Under Media & Society
‘Coz I went running, ‘coz I went running, ‘coz I went running…
Running can make you high according to researchers in Germany. The bio-technologists published a report that proves that running can change the mood you’re in. Read more
Filed Under Modern Life, Research, Sport
Vote for Miss Landmine 2008
Angola’s land mine victims will soon be competing for fame, glory and a custom-made prosthetic limb. Miss Landmine is a beauty pageant in which the contestants are local women, most of whom were injured either while working in their fields, or while fleeing from soldiers in the 80s and the 90s. The organisers are trying to make the pageant as mainstream as possible, which means that they have a website where you can vote for your favorite contestant.
Filed Under Events
Learn English or go to jail
Judge Peter Olszewski ordered three young Spanish-speaking men, ranging in age from 17 to 22, to take English lessons if they want not to go to jail. In a year’s time they will be tested on their reading and writing skills, and if they don’t pass, they’re going in for 24 months.
This sentence is supposed to help the men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery. Probably this is their last chance to fit in with society.
Could this be a new solution to jail crowding?
Filed Under Diversity, Human Rights