Lifestyle & InnovationPolitics & The World

In a small German town, Peter walks into a bank branch and takes a photo of the document stating the different interest rates the local Sparkasse is charging for deposits. The bank displays this information publicly and after the call of the journalistic platform Correctiv on facebook, people all over Germany went to different branches […]

Lifestyle & InnovationPolitics & The World

Precarity, insecurity and informality are just three of the prevailing terms used to describe the neoliberal climate through which many of us are trying to carve a path. Recently graduated with arms full of confidence to progress, our generation is shaped by the notion that ‘we are the drivers of our own destiny’. It is […]

Lifestyle & InnovationPolitics & The World

Just early this year, the newly formed Women´s Equality Party emerged in the United Kingdom, founded by journalist Catherine Mayer and comedian Sandi Toksvig. It was inspired by the events at the Women of the World Festival in London this March where a consensus for the need of gender equality in society was reached. Since its official […]

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by Louise Bicknese A safe and almost infallible way of banking and storing data: sounds great, doesn’t it? As it turns out, this kind of technology may be closer than we think. Blockchain, the technology behind the online currency ‘bitcoin’, is extremely hard to cheat. The numerous applications are potentially revolutionary; even chief economist Andrew […]