This month we explore some of the strangest laws from Cuba, Italy, Hong Kong, Romania and the US. Our writers will take …
A Beautiful Mistake
Yes, I was utterly mistaken. I admit it after years of intentional ignorance. I have to charge myself guilty of having s…
How Milk, A Cow and A Few Chickens Taught Me A Lesson
Endless meadows, hayfields, grasslands. Curvy roads covered in gravel. A house once every two kilometers. And this does …
Identity and Belonging/ ISM Issue 38
Who am I and where do I belong? One of life's most fundamental questions keeps all of us pondering. The answers are not …
How Street Food Culture Defines Hong Kong
Any traveller that is new to South East Asia will enthuse over street food. In Europe, this concept is barely seen. No s…
Four Places To Visit In The Incredible City Of Poznań, Poland
Weekend Trips never really excited me. Too short, too stressful and comparatively expensive given that the transportatio…
Emotional Conspiracies
Our body can already show signs of an emotion before we even realize it. That sounds paradoxical? It might, but there ar…
The Easy Million Dollars
The famous million- that is the dream. One million dollars. It would make life so much easier. No more worries about the…
This Is Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Are Not Effective
“Change is the only constant” How true does this feel when we look around and when we have a look inside ourselves. H…
Have You Even Heard Of The Rohingya?
The Rohingya is a population of people that occupy the land of western Myanmar (previously called Burma), they are a min…
Through Our Lens/ ISM Issue 35
The time division system we humans created for ourselves serves as orientation in the continuous flow of events. In whic…
A Year In Seven Paragraphs
Does the concept of time appear very arbitrary to you at times? It certainly does to me. Why do we have 365 days in a ye…
Daniel asks… #1
Pedro Moreno. Painter. Barcelona. When did you decide to become a painter? My dedication to painting began in the…
Refugee Crisis/ ISM Issue 34
The refugee crisis is not only a political and economic crisis, above all it is a humanitarian one. Media reported vastl…
When The Arrival Is Not Yet The End Of The Journey
The refugee crisis is not only a political and economic crisis, above all it is a humanitarian one. Media reported vastl…
Notions Of Success/ ISM Issue 33
Success has become an external motivation in today’s world. It seems that success is no longer a personal thing but rath…
Achieving What We Most Desire
Behavioral science distinguishes between two different kinds of motivation: intrinsic (internal) and (external) extrinsi…