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Knives Out – Another Murder Mystery with Brilliant Actors
University of Coimbra Stops Serving Beef in an Effort to Combat the Climate Crisis
When the Resolve to Achieve is Higher than the World’s Highest Peak
Now Is The Best Time To Take Cuttings To Grow Various Plants
10 Easy Recycling Hacks to Save Money and the Planet
István Kovács: The Topic of War Keeps Finding Me
Ultimate Travel Hacks Set: Travel Prepared
Whether you’re having a business trip, studying in a different country, or going on a holiday abroad, you will get hungry, thirsty, cold or hot at the airport. Having travelled back and forth between the US, the UK, and Europe, I’ve collected a few tips that have saved me some $$$ and made my transfers smooth and less of a headache.
Students’ Forest Fire Nightmare: Two Italian Students Have Been Fined a Combined €13.5m After...
The 65th International Student Conference in Japan
Youth Climate Protests Spread
Drugs Utilization. Heals First – Then Can Cripple
Plastic – separately, paper – separately, old clothes – and then off to the second-hand. Classifying garbage before throwing anything away has already become a common practice. But what to do when you clean out the first-aid kit? Where should expired pills, sprays,or a broken mercury thermometer end up,and why? And how does this get handled for example in the Czech Republic?
Best Movies About Earth
For this weekend we have films for you, some of them just awesome and others thought provoking. These are films one can repeat watching every once in while. We hope you’ll enjoy them.
Are You Moving House? These Tips Will Make It Easier
An old saying states that it is easier to burn the house down than to move to a new one. I don't know about that, but moving house can be demanding. Some psychologists even go so far as to compare the level of stress from moving house to the stress level from a divorce. One cannot do much with that, but there are ways to make more the act of moving at least a little easier and more pleasant. Check out our tips and tricks.
Water – A Challenge For Our Time
A news item regarding the shortage of water in Cape Town recently circulated through periodicals all over the world and caused a shock, and not just to those who will be impacted directly. A limit to the supply of drinking water that will begin no later last than April 22 is the unqualified order from city officials, with the possibility that rationing will be pushed even further forward to an earlier date.
From Trash To Little Treasures
Paper to the blue bin, plastic bottles into the yellow, glass in white and green . . . then there are tins, beverage cartons, bio rubbish, miscellaneous waste, and I am not even talking about clearing out old cellars and attics and waste from the garden. The quantity of waste that is produced is enormous, and giving things a second chance might become more a necessity than just a hobby for a few enthusiasts. Check out our gallery with a number of great ideas for re-purposing old things and hurry up to find what you have available at home for your next project.
Recycling – What Belongs Where
The problem of an excess of packaging material is worldwide. The need to wrap goods has grown to such an extent that sometimes it is difficult to get items unwrapped, not to mention the dilemma of which recycling container the packaging belongs in.
Gaming & Brain Empowerment
Contemporary scientific research is demonstrating that gaming can be a brain-empowering activity (if played for a reasonable amount of time). The next time you hear someone say something like “I play World of Warcraft”, try not to belittle the activity.
10 Awesome Animals on the Brink of Extinction
From a young age, Youth Time contributor Leigh Woods has been passionate about wildlife. After spending a number of years leading safaris across southern and eastern Africa, his empathy and compassion toward animals grew stronger. As some of the world’s most iconic species edge ever closer toward extinction, so do many that the average person may never even have heard of. Here, Leigh highlights some of the planet’s extraordinary fauna that may soon be lost forever.
Secrets and Mysteries Hidden in Old Masterpieces – Albrecht Duerer
When it comes to Albrecht Dürer, most will surely remember at least one of his works. His self-portrait, significantly reminding the viewer of Jesus, is one of the paintings that art books like to reproduce. Similarly it is with the famous engraving, Adam and Eve, from 1504, or the detailed depiction of a rabbit in watercolour – Young Hare – from 1502. In 1514, however, Dürer created a copperplate titled Melencolia I, which was immediately understood to be a masterpiece.
Irreplaceable Kitchen Wrap
Kitchen wrap, Saran wrap or Cling film - all of these refer to one of the best inventions that ever entered the market. The thin, adhesive, and elastic plastic film that smoothly adheres to almost every material has a multitude of uses beyond wrapping up your sandwich. Have you thought of these uses for kitchen wrap before?
























