Health & Beauty
The ‘Fenty Effect’: How Rihanna is Diversifying Industries
Transforming the Beauty Industry: Fenty Beauty Black sells. Just take a look at Rihanna’s brand, Fenty Beauty. In just a month, the company made over US$100 million (~84.4 million Euros). But the fundamental problem isn’t in the foundation. It’s from […]
Connect to the World, Happiness & Yoga-Science
There is an innate desire in humans to connect with everything they come across — whether they are other humans, animals, plants or the so-called non-living, worldly things. Connection is the very nature of the universe. Everything in the universe […]
Recovering from the Unethical Past of European and U.S. Research Abroad – Part 3 of 3
Despite its current glory internationally, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical organizations allowed for unethical practices to shape the global understanding of international research. International research done by United States’ or European researchers in the global South has historically attracted globally mobile […]
Connection amid the Chaos – Emerging from the stress of 2020
6 MINUTE READ The chaos of 2020 has forced us to reckon with centuries of structural injustice. Although we can see the light of hope shining through the cracks, the process of tearing down and rebuilding is as uncertain as […]
YOGA-SCIENCE FOR LIFE MASTERY
4 MINUTE READ by Shanthi Yogini What does it mean to take charge of your life? To answer this, ask yourself a simple question – What is the driving force for all your activities? Why do you do all that […]
Ana Mendieta: A Champion for CCKs
Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.
Chinese Woman In Her Thirties Takes First Gap Year
YanYan Yan, 34, was a Chinese expat in London until the day she decided needed a change. After moving to London when she was 24 for her second master’s degree in Economics and Business and then to Helsinki for a […]
Handling the Holidays: Tips for the LGBTQ+ Community
For some in the LGBTQ+ community, the holidays aren’t the most wonderful time of the year. Instead, they can ignite familial pressures and uncertainties.
