For almost a year now I have been diving in, and have been kicked out of several anti-vaccination Facebook groups. There is an ever growing community of people who refuse to vaccinate against diseases like Measles, Chicken Pox, Tetanus, Polio, HPV,… It’s become so big that the World Health Organization even named vaccine hesitancy one… Read More Anti-vaccination and the Tragedy of the Commons
Godspeed you!Black Emperor played one of the most powerful performances a music collective can bring on Saturday 10th of June, and I am very grateful to have been able to witness it. Let me set the scene; it’s the 100 year commemoration of the Battle of Messines, significant for being the heaviest non-nuclear detonation ever recorded… Read More ALL THE FEELS; Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s WWI commemoration set went deep
Following the revelation of Edward Snowden of the global mass surveillance by the NSA, Brazil is the first to undertake great measures to govern their citizens’ rights on the Internet. NET Mundial, The two-day conference on global Internet governance has just taken place in Sao Paulo Brazil. It opened with the historic signing of the… Read More NetMundial and Marco Civil: Brazil’s attempt at protecting Privacy and Human Rights on the Internet
(voorheen verschenen in Mo*) Sinds enkele dagen woedt er een grotendeels geheime discussie in de Amerikaanse veiligheidsraad om Amerika’s cyberwapens in te zetten in de burgeroorlog in Syrië. Er gaan in de VS al langer stemmen op voor een humanitaire interventie in Syrië, en toen er chemische wapens gebruikt werden tegen de bevolking, stond de… Read More Cyberinterventie in Syrië, een potentieel gevaarlijk precedent
After hearing so many backpackers rave about it in La Paz, me and my travel companions decided to cycle the Death Road. The death road used to be the “Most Dangerous Road In The World”. Several hundreds of people die every year falling into the ravine from the narrow road that is really not made… Read More Bolivia: Death road
It was time to go to La Paz, at 3.600m the highest located capital in the world. They say La Paz is a bowl, you could almost say it’s located in a very wide canyon, and driving into the city from the top gave an incredible view that immediately woke you up. I took the… Read More Bolivia: La Paz
Since I had planned to start Spanish classes in Cusco around Monday, I left Lima saturday on a 22 hour busride through to Andean mountains to get to Cusco. I had read about altitude sickness but I had no idea how it would be like and if I would suffer from it. Turns out going… Read More Peru: Cusco, Pisac, Maras
Nathalie Van Raemdonck 