Short Stories

Saturday, January 2nd 2021 How do we get through hard times together? Are you hungry, alone, ill? With solidarity, with the heart, a modicum of generosity and with the will …

The other day I was asleep, and dreamed of waking up; however, all around me was darkness. Did I find myself in the world of a blind man or simply …

  Are trees able to communicate with one another? Working independently from each other, the Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard and the German forester warden Peter Wohlleben have discovered that …

Saturday, the 12th of December 2020 How about we prepare a little field trial? Let’s think this experimental setup through theoretically? Let’s assume we stay within our own four walls, …

Saturday, 5th December 2020 Eight Portuguese youngsters from Lisbon and Leiria, between eight and 21 years of age, have taken Germany, France, Great Britain as well as another 30 states …

Saturday 28th November 2020 The answer is easy. You make friends with a tree by planting it yourself. Choose a species of tree that you like: an oak or an …

Saturday, 21st November 2020 Following years of negotiations, 15 countries formed the world’s largest trading bloc on Sunday. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is composed of the ten ASEAN …

Saturday, 14th November 2020 Personally, I always take the path of least resistance. You too? This week I read in the paper that a vaccine has been found against climate …

Saturday, the 7th of November 2020 That is indeed the question. We are rapidly approaching the end of the year 2020; in fact, here we are in November already. Now, …

Saturday, 31st October 2020 Good to live outside of cities. According to a study by research website Comparitech*, most of the world’s most surveilled cities are located in China. The …