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Data center wars: How the AI Revolution is drawing the new geopolitical battlelines
It is a 100,000 m2 large, energy-consuming, grey box, that stores innumerate computers. What is it? If your guess was a data centre, you...
Zeteny Jakab
Dec 3, 2024


French mass rapes: How the horrific rapes of Gisèle Pelicot highlight the huge effort still needed to achieve gender equality
Trigger warning. This article tackles several difficult topics, including rape and being drugged. More and more people are claiming that...
Violette Gabriel
Dec 2, 2024


Sunday Summary- 1st December 2024: Social Media Ban for Aussie Teens
Very demure word of the year 2024 The last week of November always tends to be chaotic. With Black Friday at the end of it, people...
Patrycja Tobola
Dec 1, 2024


COP29 and the History of Climate Inaction
COP29: The ‘Finance COP’ Between November 11 and 23, 2024, COP29 convened for nearly two weeks of debates, press conferences, and...
Jule Frank
Nov 28, 2024


The Fatal Flaw of the Dutch Welfare State
The Netherlands is a rich country. On a global, even European scale, it is extremely wealthy. It consistently ranks high in quality of...
Jaap Steunenberg
Nov 26, 2024


“If Crisis Comes” Lessons from Sweden and the Nordics on War
For the next two weeks, in addition to their weekly magazines and newspapers, millions of Swedes will receive in their mailboxes what...
Alexiane François
Nov 25, 2024


Sunday Summary-24th November 2024
While it may seem Donald Trump is currently deciding the course of the next 4 years with his new government appointments, it is important...
Jaap Steunenberg
Nov 24, 2024


CC - Perfume's Grenouille and Frankenstein's Creature are More Similar Than We Think.
A few months ago, I read a book called Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Although I have read other books since then, I keep thinking about...
Violette Gabriel
Nov 22, 2024


Monuments of Peril and Power: The Politics of Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers have long transcended their utilitarian function, now serving as emblems of national pride, political power and economic...
Mark Sijtsma
Nov 20, 2024


To Live is to Perform: The Self-Fictionalisation of Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977) was a novelist and a diarist who, in her tender, soulful works, tangled the imaginative nature of fiction with...
Beatrice Vaitkeviciute
Nov 19, 2024


Culture For a Cause: How DANA Maastricht is supporting Flood Recovery in Valencia
Once again, students have shown what they are capable of. After the catastrophic flooding in Valencia, which cost over 200 lives and...
Jakob Aufenberg
Nov 18, 2024


Sunday Summary – 17th November 2024
If there were any doubts about whether Donald Trump would follow through on the promises made during his campaign, his early nominations...
Virgile de Maupeou
Nov 17, 2024


Finding the Academic Compass: UM’s Treasure Hunt in the Spam Folder
Last Wednesday (13th of November), chilling at the library, scrolling and making space in my Outlook student email, I went to the ‘Other’...
Head Editor - Sarah Hourquet
Nov 16, 2024


Germany: The New Sickman of Europe
“Blühende Landschaften” 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the former chancellor Helmut Kohl’s evocation of “Blühende...
Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
Nov 16, 2024


Cancelled Protests in Utrecht: an Isolated Event or a Threat to the Right to Demonstrate in the Netherlands?
The nationwide protest against a 1 billion cut in the 2025 Dutch budget for higher education and research, originally scheduled in...
Léa Besnard
Nov 15, 2024


Why I Don't Biohack - and Neither Should You
Top foods for skin health, supplements for longevity, cold plunges, blue light blocking glasses, inflammation, red light therapy,...
Carolina Scheuch
Nov 15, 2024


The Fall of a Dictator: An Account of the Student-People’s Uprising in Bangladesh
Quotas for government jobs may not be what you think would spark up a revolution — even though they were indeed the initial driver behind...
Léa Besnard
Nov 14, 2024


Clinitex: a Company Inspired by the Montessori Pedagogy
Founded in 1980 by Thierry Pick in his parents' garage in France, Clinitex is now a major player in professional cleaning, with over...
Faustine Rocoplan
Nov 13, 2024


Femicides in Turkey: A National Emergency
The republic of Türkiye, majorly known as Turkey internationally, is a country in the Middle East famous for its tourist spots and...
Sena Gonel
Nov 13, 2024


To Flow or Not to Flow - The Atlantic Current’s Existential Crisis
Water is pretty cool, right? Drink it, and you’re not thirsty any more; pour it on yourself, and you’re cleaner than ever before; dive in...
Virgile de Maupeou
Nov 12, 2024
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