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Can Carbon Label Help Fighting Climate Change?
It is just before 13.00. Hungry, you rush to the UvA canteen after a long class. Same steps and same classmates as many other days, but...
Davide Pace
Feb 15, 20245 min read


Monke and Capital: Exposition on the Systems of Labour
In the evolutionary timeline, it is not easy to get around the means by which certain evolutionary artefacts have attached themselves to...

Santiago Mengual
Oct 16, 202320 min read


The Value of Timekeeping: A Reappraisal of Past and Current Meaning
Dalle AI Nine billionths of a second. A unit of measurement so accurate that, by comparison, a wristwatch becomes a blunt instrument for...

John Gatev
Oct 5, 20236 min read


Quit Smoking: How Wealth is Built of Metaphysics and Cigarettes
There are many reasons why people struggle to quit smoking, but it almost always concerns a wrong understanding of how they perceive...

Santiago Mengual
Jun 14, 202313 min read


The Myth Of Communications Artistry: Exploring The Value Of A Scientific Approach For Organisations
Within the rigidity of corporate structures, there is no function more ill-defined than that of communications. Conjuring images of...

John Gatev
May 16, 20234 min read


Are protests at the UvA getting out of hand?
In the afternoon of Monday, January 16, 2023, dozens of UvA students and teachers occupied a university building. Their reason? Once...
Stella Botta
Mar 11, 20234 min read


The Future of Urban Living: What to Expect from Saudi Arabia's 'The Line'
‘The Line’. The envisioned utopia to be built in Saudi Arabia by 2030 in the shape of a straight line, promises many things: 1) driven by...

Santiago Mengual
Feb 27, 20239 min read


Why Unicorns Matter: Spas Kyosev On The Importance Of Storytelling
Economic growth is a function of physical capital, human capital, and ideas – the factor that binds them into output. A simple yet...

John Gatev
Jan 23, 20235 min read


The Destructive Growth of UvA: an Overview of the Effects
Protest against the University of Amsterdam’s growth, October 13, 2022. The “Tragedy of the Commons”, is a socio-economic concept that...
Sanjana Majumdar
Oct 31, 20224 min read


Sisyphus, Suicide and the Search for Meaning
“There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – Albert Camus 800,000 people committed suicide in 2020,...
Yazan Azab
Oct 19, 20223 min read


The Destructive Growth of UvA: an Overview of Causes
Protest against the University of Amsterdam’s growth, October 13, 2022. Alejandro was just like any other student, wanting to pursue his...
Sanjana Majumdar
Oct 14, 20223 min read
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