The Atlantic, and a former Rome bureau chief and European culture correspondent for
The New York Times. Based in Europe since 2008, she focuses on feature stories and profiles at the intersection of culture, politics, and religion, as well as literary reportage and criticism. She has reported from more than two dozen countries and has written about the social and political toll of the European debt crisis in Greece and Italy and the wave of populism that followed in its wake; the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo as its staff put out the first issue after a deadly terrorist attack; France s Yellow Vest movement; and the #MeToo movement, among other significant global stories. (
1Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Young people’s lack of participation in elections has been taken as a sign that the young are wary of representative democracy and reject traditional authorities. Instead of election participation, it is expected that the young want more possibilities for direct involvement in political decision-making. Fridays for Future (FFF) is a global, youth-led climate movement that has been able to mobilize millions of young people around the world into political action (de Moor et al., 2020; Wahlström et al., 2019) in times when youth participation is generally declining, especially in traditional forms of political participation. While many have taken this as evidence that young people dismiss representative democracy in favor of a more participatory democracy, in-depth studies of their motivations are still lacking. This article helps fill this lacuna by providing a case study on Finnish FFF par
officially named, is a little country located in the Caribbean. Cuba is the greatest island in the Caribbean and it has over 11 million native habitants, making it be the second most populated after Hispaniola. Even though the capital of Cuba is Havana, its biggest city, the main island of it is Isla de la Juventud. Cuba also has a few of archipelagos and the second greatest city is Santiago de Cuba. The island is as close to The United States as 93 miles away and from Mexico as 130 miles away
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Art history has only partly emerged from the shadow of Giorgio Vasari, whose
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is its foundational text. Cognitive aesthetics, or the study of art in light of the psychology of perception, is a half-century old, as are various computer-based techniques of art analysis. But the broader discipline remains dominated by monographic studies of figures or movements distinguished by talent or genius, with great emphasis on biography and the effects of inspiration and experience on individual works. The composition of the canon, and its biases and blind spots, has been a major theme of art criticism, but often, the tone is more polemical than measured and reflective. In
“There’s one [recipe] that was put together by a king of Pontus in Turkey named Mithridates,” says McGovern. “There’s 73 ingredients that go into it.”
To make this particular concoction, someone would need “flesh of vipers,” wine, opium, rhubarb, black pepper, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, among other herbs and spices. Purportedly, this mixture would relieve symptoms like stomach weakness, difficulty breathing and perhaps even the plague itself.
“So, it was very important in the Middle Ages until it was finally shown to be not necessarily so effective,” says McGovern.
Throughout its ancient history, wine has been hailed for its curative properties / Credit: Bridgeman Images