Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash Brazil’s Amazon Imperiled By COVID–19 by Hal Conte Illegal logging in the Amazon has soared to the highest rate in a decade, with seven indigenous people infected by the coronavirus which otherwise wouldn’t reach the remote dwellers. A few have compared the situation to the arrival of European colonialists in the […]
Image source: Japanese Cooking 101 More valuable than you thought I ran about 12 miles one Sunday in February to the Shinagawa Yakiimo Terrace to join crowds of people like me: Yakiimo Otaku. At Tokyo’s annual Yakiimo festival, Japanese sweet potato lovers stand in line for 30 freezing minutes or more, in 20 degree weather […]
When you’re posting something for your friends to see on Instagram or researching background information for an assignment on Google, increasingly prominent economists and activists believe you are participating in colonialism. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it was often private companies backed by imperialist powers, including the British East India Company, the Dutch […]
Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP With karate, skateboarding, baseball and surfing, and medals made of recycled materials the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, the most sponsored sports event in world history with a price tag of a cool $26 billion was already going to set memorable records. Now, it has a more dubious distinction. In […]
Photo by Markus Spiske from Pexels Gabon Bans Consumption Of Bats, Pangolins Due To Virus Fears by Hal Conte The Gabonese Republic has banned people from selling bats and pangolins for food under the belief among officials there that COVID-19 was the result of a wet meat market transfer in China. African bats were also […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Palestinian Farmers Accuse Israel Of Spraying Their Crops With Poison by Hal Conte Local human rights groups and farmers reported that Israeli planes sprayed chemicals intended to remove objects in the sightlines of soldiers into Gaza crop fields, with wheat, barley, corn, orka, and other crops near the rural areas of Zeitoun […]
Image source: Netflix At the start of the movie The Two Popes, the protagonist, Cardinal Bergoglio, gives a sermon to an impoverished community in Buenos Aires. Recounting the ministry of St. Francis of Asisi, he narrates how the saint hears God’s voice instructing him to “repair my Church.” Bergoglio (played by Jonathan Pryce) continues explaining […]
Photo credit: Chuncheon-si People As a Korean, I have always wondered how such diverse traditions can be created in this small country, the size of America’s one state with 51 million people. After transferring to Temple last year, I realized Korean culture that I took for granted was unique—so unique that people here hardly experience. […]
Cover Photo: Jae-In’s bedroom. Before, occasionally used as a study space, now…a classroom every day. My college life can now be described as an empty campus while moving from one zoom class to another in my bed. I remember the moment I had to watch parents picking up their kids in front of Morgan Hall […]
Image Source: Jung Hawon/AFP This March, Freely Magazine would like to honor women around the world in a special article highlighting important female figures and their lasting legacies worldwide. Everywhere, women are fighting a battle to have a voice, to be treated with respect, and most of all to have rights. Women around the world […]
Source: Xavier Galiana/AFP via Getty Images It started with a tweet. “A three day ultimatum to the police,” wrote Kapil Mishra, an Indian politician allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi – to clear the roads and after that please do not try to convince us, we would not even listen to you.” The result? Beatings, […]
Outrage Among Anti–Netanyahu Israelis As Rival Gantz Pushes Unity by Hal Conte Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz moved towards a “government of national unity” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he was elected speaker of the Knesset with support from Netanyahu’s Likud Party, angering the hundreds of thousands of people who chose to […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Iraq Enraged By Continuous U.S. Military Attacks In Its Territory by Hal Conte Iraq’s army is irate after the U.S. targeted and killed what Trump administration officials claimed were members of Kataib Hezbollah, an organization which the U.S. says is supported by Iran. Iraqi leaders say that in reality, the attack […]
Image: EMMA LEE / WHYY Temple’s international student population faces unexpected challenges as classes are moved online and campus services cut back due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The virus, which has hit nearly 150,000 globally and killed over 5,000 as of March 14, first affected Temple students in late February when classes for Temple […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli / @kiko labayen Whenever I go back to Korea during a school break, my friends ask me questions about Temple as if they were interviewing me for a job: Do they really party every day? Is the campus prettier than Korean colleges? At first, I wouldn’t say I liked answering their […]
Illustration credit: Tia Marchiselli Russian Far East Attracts Rebels, Renegades by Hal Conte The Far Eastern Hectare Program, which offers 2.5 acres of free land to those who want to move to the most sparsely populated regions of the Russian Federation, has provided refuge for those Russians who oppose government policy. Sergei Lunin, an anarchist, recently […]
Illustration: Peter Naktin The news was shocking to architects all around the United States: President Donald Trump plans to make all federal buildings “neoclassical” again. Trump’s administration has drafted an executive order to ensure “the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style” for government buildings nationwide, according to the Architectural Record. This […]
Illustration Credit: Tia Marchiselli Half Of Global Beaches Could Be Gone By 2100 by Hal Conte Even if greenhouse gas emissions are mitigated, more than a third of global beaches could end up as casualties of human-created climate change by the end of the 21st century, according to a new article in the prestigious scientific […]
Photo by Quinten de Graaf on Unsplash Glitter, costumes, beer and loud music – magic takes over Brazil during Carnival. Our most famous holiday is certainly popular for a reason. Before moving to the United States, I made a mental list of all the things I would miss about Brazil, and Carnival was high on the list. Carnival […]
Illustration Credit: Sana Kewalramani When I introduce myself to others as Mexican, a common response is to question whether my national background is true. “You are Mexican? You don’t look like one,” people tend to say. I am always put off by these comments, and I wonder, how is a Mexican supposed to look like […]