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To Breathe Or Not To Breathe

The notion that air pollution is more than just a topic that environmentalists use to frighten ordinary people was unconvincing to me when I read about it in a textbook, but not when I felt it from my own experience. After spending a couple of weeks in the Czech city of Ostrava at the height of the winter heating season, where I participated in the project of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University (atmospheric air quality assessment and solid particles concentration measurement), I returned to Prague with acute conjunctivitis. The ophthalmologist, upon examining me, was horrified and asked how I managed to bring myself to such a state. Hearing in response that I had been working in Ostrava, she nodded knowingly and glumly advised me to avoid traveling to that part of Moravia in the future.

Nature Does It Better: Eco-Eating

In the accelerating age of digital technology, as we are anxious to get rid of the effects of stress and chronic fatigue, we resort to all sorts of tricks. Indulging the stomach with a product labeled «bio» is one of the simplest options. But then a lot of questions arise. What is a «bio-product»? How do we distinguish the real thing from a fake? Is it worth overpaying at all?

3D Printed Organs: Reality Of Near Future?

Anthony Atala, M.D, is the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and is the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Atala is a practicing surgeon and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine. His work focuses on growing human cells, tissues, and organs.

Interesting Volunteer And Scholarship Opportunities In February

This week’s digest of opportunities for youth includes volunteer opportunities at the Winter Olympics 2018 in South Korea, an arts- and architecture-related research scholarship at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, London; Full Scholarships for Graduate Studies in the UAE; and scholarships for the Executive Education Training Program in China.

French bakery

What It Takes To Start A Bakery?

Clemence Digiovanni and Clara Pulja, both only 25, are already successful entrepreneurs. They get up every morning at 4 a.m. and work more than twelve hours so their customers can be happy and well fed. Although each of them originally decided to choose different life paths, an unplanned encounter in Northern France brought them together and allowed them to become business partners. Belgrade’s unique vibe enchanted them immediately, and without much planning they picked it as the right hot spot for their culinary adventure. Today they are the proud owners of the only genuine French bakery in the Serbian capital, called La Petite Cantine. In less than a year it has become a place that people talk about and rush to in the early morning hours, so they can grab their almond croissants while they’re still hot. And while their guests praise Clara and Clemence, calling what they do pure magic, they claim their business is just a reflection of themselves, representing the simplicity of life's pleasures at their best.

Five Art Movies

A new weekend is at hand, and it is time for the traditional YT movie selections. This week we´ve chosen films from the world of art and artists, tracing the lives of five great painters and sculptors. These movies were well received by critics and were honored with multiple nominations and awards.

Dance Your Problems Away

Dancing has always been a popular form of exercise, but it is now medically proven that dancing, and especially the Argentinean tango, has great medical benefits. “Tango therapy” is the term applied to the therapeutic purposes of this dance, and it is rapidly becoming a popular way to increase the quality of life of many patients. Dancing not only cures the body, it also stimulates the mind and is used to help people who suffer with everything from Parkinson’s disease to depression and a list of phobias. Thirty eight years old Giulia Zimei, from Rome, is one of the passionate tango teachers who use Argentinean tango as a form of physical and mental activity to facilitate movement and get therapeutic benefits.

The Global Youth Leaders Program In Canada

Applications are now open for the Global Youth Leaders Program taking place from September 18 – October 6, 2017 in Antigonish, Canada. The Global Youth Leaders is a three-week education program offered at the Coady Institute. This program enables young development practitioners from developing countries to strengthen their leadership capacities. Deadline to apply is February 13th.

What It Takes To Work With Refugees: A Young Protection Officer Shares First-hand Experience

The refugee crisis generates a lot of work to relocate all the displaced people throughout the states of the European Union. Today, Youth Time speaks to Anja Djordjevic, who works as a Protection Officer for World Vision in the Presevo refugee facility in Serbia. After an education as a social worker and a stint working as a teacher in the field, one of her students got her a recommendation that gave her a chance to work for a local agency on a project dedicated to combating human trafficking among the refugee population at the Serbian-Croatian border. This was just the beginning as she moved on from there to World Vision, where she is now actively involved in the daily protection of refugees.

Young And Vegan: No To Cruelty, Yes To Life

For most of us, watching a movie is usually nothing more than an easy way to have fun and relax. But for thirty-year-old Emina from Sarajevo, seeing one particular movie made a big change in her life.

 

Things Don’t Matter, People Do: Five Movies About The Importance Of Strength Of Character

Goodness of character is a fundamental strength. What it means to be strong in character is the theme of today's movies: small dramas about people who left their comfort zones and did something remarkable for others, and thus for themselves, too

Traineeships 2017 In The European Commission

Registration is open for the March 2017 Traineeship Session in the European Commission. Trainees work all over the European Commission. The content of the job largely depends on the service you are assigned to. You may, for example, work in the field of competition law, human resources, environmental policy. Deadline to apply is August 31st.

Young Adult Fiction: Five Writings To Explore

Young Adult Fiction: Five Writings To Explore

It is a misconception that young adult literature comes down only to superficial teenage stories that lack any serious conclusions or strongly defined characters. The fact is, there are many great books from this genre that deal with complex themes such as bullying, depression, the search for identity, peer pressure, illness, and the never ending struggle to find a place in the world. In that sense, young adult books can really be refreshing and can widen your perspective. Here are the top five from our list for you to enjoy this weekend.

10 Promising Technologies Of The Future

Science is not standing still, it continues trying to match the rhythm of life of the modern person and to make his life easier to the maximum degree. Here are technologies which still aren’t widely available or are in the developmental stage, though they are already giving promise of a bright future. This review of scientific breakthroughs was compiled by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The books about love

Five Deep Books On Love And Relationships

When it comes to novels with romantic themes, people tend to push them aside as third class literature or see them as chick-lit, marked with heartbreaking scenes (which can be too corny), or with plot devices meant to induce sobbing. The fact is, there are many great, high-quality books that deal with the topic of love and don't fall within these cliches. Authors can also take a more serious approach, taking into consideration historical and social circumstances, psychological portraits, and forms of love not widely discussed or even controversial (e.g. Nabokov's Lolita). Here are five of the most interesting ones, which you can read for pleasure without experiencing guilt over the enjoyment they give. This time, we have included contemporary authors, too – so you can see how modern love problems are reinterpreted through literature.

Apply Now For The European Youth Award 2016

The European Youth Award (EYA), a pan-European contest to motivate young people, social entrepreneurs and start-ups to produce digital projects with impact on society, is accepting now applications for #EYA2016. Deadline is July 31st.

Why The Profession Of Fashion Illustrator Is So Popular? Interview With 6 Young Illustrators

Why is the profession of fashion Illustrator so popular these days? Where can you study this profession? What is the future for a fashion Illustrator? We interviewed six young fashion illustrators from around the world - Gizem Kazancıgil, Sunny Gu, Anna Halarewicz, Stephanie Surtida, Roberto Sánchez, and Juliane Hennes and asked them about six important issues!

How The Most “Purchasable” Industry Helps Us To Learn

Gone are the days of watching a great movie when all of a sudden, in the middle of the most intense part of the action, a commercial break would interrupt. That was the moment when (if you weren’t by any chance working in advertising) you began to hate commercials.

Fully Funded Studentship In Imperial College London

The Imperial College London is pleased to welcome applications to the four fully-funded PhD projects for 2016/17. Deadline to apply is 18:00 (BST) July 11.

Discovering The Mystery Of Dreams: Five Books You Must Read

One of the most intriguing questions about humans is – why do we dream? There are many scientific theories about the complex process of dreaming that include explanations about sleep cycles, the meaning of dreams, the content of dreams, and how we can interpret them. The fact that we know so little about this has left room for pseudoscientific clarifications, since there is a lack of reliable evidence, even from the scientific point of view. Most of us have surely (at least once) searched google in order to find meaning in a weird dream. These interpretations are sometimes shallow, or they may include general explanations through some sort of symbolic reckoning (i.e. dreaming about teeth falling out means insecurity). Various religions offer specific dream interpretations, as it is believed that in dreams, man can get the warning signs he needs to prevent catastrophic events from occurring. So, it is believed that in dreams – we can get a hint of what is going to happen in the future. For this weekend’s reading, we have prepared five scientific explanations about dreams, starting with the best known – the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

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