by Alise Rojas | May 30, 2025 | Articles
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in USA recently proposed to phase out the use of synthetic food dyes due to health risks. These synthetic dyes are petroleum-based. Every day we see bright and funny advertisements for products that look delicious; however, these...
by Larissa Fernandez | May 30, 2025 | Articles
Today, while trying to spend some quality time with my family, I wonder if we’ll be able to enjoy a peaceful afternoon without falling into the temptation of those small pleasures that offer an instant dose of dopamine: memes. For example, those memes created with...
by Melany Diaz | May 29, 2025 | Articles
It might sound exaggerated, but no—it’s literal: we are eating plastic. Not because it’s served for lunch, or because we order it with our coffee, but because it’s there—hidden in water, in salt, in fish, in the air. And the most unsettling thing is that we can’t even...
by Emma Tristán | May 21, 2025 | Articles
In 2016, Jurgen and I visited Playa Ventanas for the first time, in Ojochal, in the Pacific Southwest of Costa Rica. It is very easy to get to: it is about 30 km south of Dominical, on the Costanera Sur. I remember it was a weekday and there was no one on the beach....
by Emma Tristán | May 6, 2025 | Articles
Visiting the cultural centre in Trench Town was the best decision we made during our trip to Jamaica. Not only did we learn, in a more genuine way, how Bob Marley got his start in music, but we also discovered Stoneman. Stoneman was next to the main building, in an...
by Jurgen Ureña | May 4, 2025 | Articles
In his wildly imaginative book Imaginary Magnitude (1973), Polish author Stanislaw Lem introduces Eruntics, a fictional treatise in which a philosopher describes how he taught English to a colony of bacteria. These microbes, according to Lem, communicate via Morse...
