Italy’s homelessness crisis is not an issue rooted in lack of dwellings, rather in the absence of national housing policies, Airbnb’s and not trusting long-term tenants. Authors: Greta Hirschberg, Yuliia Kyzyk, Matteo Scannavini, Hongyu Zhang The housing crisis in Italy has gotten worse. While tens of thousands of people still live in the streets, new … Read more
Post-pandemic paradigm shift in work reshuffles travel destinations and leads people to relocate, but is this trend here to stay? Fabio Cantile, Javad Maleki, Jakob Ranglin Grissler “I felt stuck in New York City. Once things were safer, I resolved to give it a shot myself”. After living in NYC for six years, Jordan Goldmeier … Read more
Memory loss, headache, and even heart problems are just a few examples of the side effects that patients report each year after receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Although side effects, this treatment continues to be widely used around the world to treat mental disorders such as severe depression, affective disorder, and schizophrenia. Sweden has shown to … Read more
Statistics show that among children and adolescents, girls are much less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. One expert suggests there is inbuilt “scientific bias” while another expert says that women with ADHD are at greater risk of suicide. “I would probably have been part of the suicide statistics, but I lived for mum and … Read more
By Kelsey Lescop, Nicolas Berlinger, Sara Istefan and Sandra Daniel for Politico There is one myth that has captivated the imaginations of adventurers and miners since the arrival of Europeans on the American continent: the search for “El Dorado”, a mythical golden city hidden somewhere deep in the hinterlands of the Amazonas jungle. For some, … Read more
An article by Anna Hallgren, Mireia Jimenez and Khorambanoo Askari Sweden has been regarded as a leading example of gender equality around the world, but when it comes to work-related stress, things are far from equal. New statistics from Försäkringskassan (an insurance authority in Sweden) show that between January 2010 and January 2022 the total … Read more
An article by Suzanna de Vries, Suzanne Vink and Karlijn Stenvers for Politico. A plastic package of Dutch cheese: Leerdammer. You would not expect to find that on an illegal dumpsite in the outskirts of Adana, one of Turkey’s biggest cities, close to the Syrian border. How did it get there? The Netherlands is exporting … Read more