31 October 2026 – Saturday
31 October 2026 – Saturday

Nelle Foreste Siberiane

Of frogs and men

The Curtain Never Falls: The Classics’ Eternal Encore

Monday Briefing 12/10/2026

Whose Future Are We Protecting?

The Industrial Revolution and Its Not-So-Artful Consequences 

Off Campus

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“Nein,” Eleven Years After

Last December’s EU Home Affairs Council was supposed to end in celebration. However, it turns out it only takes one negative vote to create one of the biggest EU internal scandals in recent years. In this article, we analyze…
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This is why none of your Turkish friends are okay 

Illustration by Esra Gülmen This article and many more will appear in our next quarterly issue. Stay tuned! This is not an article about the devastating earthquakes that hit another country. It is an article about your friends, whom you went…
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Sulle spalle di un gigante: dono, donare, donarsi nella Roma di Seneca

Cosa significare donare sé stessi agli altri? Può l’opera di un grande come Seneca essere utile per comprendere le radici di una società civile ben salda? I principi alla base dell’altruismo, della gratitudine e in ultima istanza del volontariato…
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Education under attack: Schooling in Ukraine following the Russian invasion

When talking about the current situation in Ukraine, there is one element that is often missing in the journalistic narrative: the impact of the war on the education system of the country. It is important to address this issue…
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#BreakTheBias – even the unconscious ones 

Break the bias was the official theme of the 2022 International Women’s Day. We have all heard about the biases we have towards women, and as young students in 2022, we might think that we don’t have them or…
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A new legal framework for the digital world: will the EU policy be effective?

While the digital world was evolving towards new limits, EU legislation lagged behind for many years.Now that things are set to change, we ask ourselves whether the current measures will be effective or if they are somehow flawed. They…
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2022 World Cup: When Excitement and Money Win Against Morality and Fairness 

November 20th has marked the beginning of the globally renowned FIFA World Cup championship and football fans seem to be more ecstatic than ever. With thousands flooding the new Qatari stadiums, competing over the leftover hotel rooms, and crowding…
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“Forgotten Architecture”: spunti di riflessioni per i giovani imprenditori del futuro. 

Ti è mai capitato di girare per Milano e scoprire edifici o spazi urbani dimenticati, inutilizzati o semplicemente costruzioni atipiche a cui non avevi mai prestato attenzione? In tal caso “Forgotten Architecture” è il progetto che fa per te. …
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Black Friday, the tip of the melting iceberg

Black Friday is much more than the discounts delivered to your inbox or the huge posters inviting you to take your window shopping to the next level. Black Friday is one of the major symptoms and a fueler of…
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Armageddon Might Wait 

Asteroids have entered collective imagination as objects of inexorable destruction; now, they might not be any longer. NASA carried out a mission to deflect an asteroid, and it seems like it worked. Armageddon might have to wait. There are…
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Far from a steady state 

The aftermath of Queen Elizabeth’s unexpected demise – the first of a British monarch in the digital age – was characterized by a shower of comments, posts, images, and articles. This certainly did not come as a surprise, but…
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Meloni hates rave parties, but she does like cash money

If you participate in a rave party you’ll be fined, but no worries: at least you can pay with cash.That’s the bizarre situation outlined by the first measures announced by the Meloni cabinet and being widely discussed in Parliament…
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When Economics meets Film  – a sensory dive into the mechanics of our world 

Economics and film are two worlds that often intertwine in ways that are not always evident. Appreciating them together can thus be at the same time insightful and fascinating. Dive into our analysis of three famous movies through this…
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An Invisible Threat: Microplastics in Our Food 

According to a 2019 study, an average person could be ingesting as many as 1,900 microplastic particles a week, which is equivalent to eating a credit card. But how does all this plastic get into our bodies, and what…
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Do ut des: the frontier of volunteerism

How has volunteerism changed with the pandemic? Was it for the better? Asking ourselves questions, we could be able to grasp what is to be found at the core of volunteer work, even though the complexity that revolves around…
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The Three of Briscola 

We all have a different set of cards in our hands as we play the game of life. In turn, some of our best moves come from a place of obscurity, where we are not limited by the belief…
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A Foreign Facade

As a foreigner moving into a new country, you are guaranteed to listen to quite a few boring clichés. They are most likely to come from all of your usual suspects, those being family, friends, and older family friends,…
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The two sides of the night

Innovative projects ensuring the safety of people – particularly women – in city streets are emerging as private initiatives throughout Italy. This phenomenon, along with recent data collected, is part of a wider socio-political debate, whose aim is not…
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Stop Thinking the Veil is Oppressing Iranian Women

As mass protests against the government are insurging all over Iran, the relationship between the hijab and the state of women is re-entering the public debate. In our Westernized view of the world, we may be used to thinking about…
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Colombia’s first ever left-winged president

On Sunday, June 19th, 2022, Colombia’s presidential elections made history, with the country electing the first ever left-winged president. However, there is a whole backstory as to why this happened. What led to this election? And how has President…
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Legal but Wrong: Greece’s Article 191 

About a month ago the Greek government – headed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his New Democracy party – admitted to wiretapping the mobile phone of opposition leader Nikos Androulakis. In a subsequent press conference, the PM insisted…
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Università: quali le proposte dei partiti in campagna elettorale?

Tra i molteplici temi su cui i partiti politici si stanno confrontando in vista delle elezioni per il rinnovo del Parlamento del 25 settembre 2022, uno in particolare potrebbe sicuramente essere di grande interesse per i lettori di questo…
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The war in Ukraine and the protection of the cultural heritage  

Among the innocent victims of any conflict, we also unfortunately have the cultural and historical sites of the territories plagued by the military operations. In the past weeks much has been said about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, but…
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Pakistan: Teetering on the Edge of Democracy 

For a country mired in dynasty politics and political fiefdoms, Pakistan’s 2018 general elections came as a welcome break to the masses when Imran Khan, a cosmopolitan cricket legend took the office of Prime Minister. Nearly 4 years on,…
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Why cognitive patterns predispose to fake news consumption

Most of us are able to recognize an unknown and untrustworthy news source and call it out as such, but what happens to this ability if supposedly reliable figures exploit fake news to their own advantage? A number of…
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The Buffaloes’ Cliff

On March 3rd, 2022 Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company producing the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, reached a new agreement with the group of States that brought it in court for its role in the opioid crisis, a health emergency…
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Bearing the gift

Flipping over the twisted rhetoric of maternity  Motherhood and making a career, known as an ever-lasting struggle. Maternity as a burden instead of a gift. Have we taken some time to ponder over where the unfairness of this comes…
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Unbeaten Turned Unbeatable 

“We’re looking better and better. Probably we’ve never looked as good as we do tonight,” were the words of Viktor Orban as he addressed a crowd of supporters in Hungary’s capital. This was following his crushing victory in the…
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The Stories You (Probably) Missed Recently

In the recent weeks the world had its eyes focused on the brutal conflict in Ukraine. However, that isn’t the only ongoing geopolitical crisis – from a brutal ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia to indescribable gang wars in El Salvador,…
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Yen’s Historic Fall

In April, the Japanese yen plunged to its weakest level against the US dollar since May 2002. Why did this happen, what will be the consequences, and what are Japan’s options?  The Japanese yen had never been weaker in…
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A Walk-Through the JEE Spring 2022 Conference

An exclusive look at the pan-European enterprise conference, inviting from 16 countries and 370 subsidiary confederations   Junior Enterprises Europe, a non-profit scope of over 270 organizations and 33,000 members across Europe, held its Spring Conference in Brescia, Italy. Bocconi’s…
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May 2022 Editorial: Stories We Missed

There is a sort of circularity between what happened in New York Subway and the war taking place on the other side of the Atlantic, a similarly ringing alarm reminding us that we are losing our sense of tragedy.In…
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Artivismo: quando l’arte si fa politica

Quando si unisce la ragion poetica alla ragion civile nasce una nuova forma di arte politica: l’Artivismo. Gli artivisti si interrogano sulle più importanti emergenze del nostro tempo e si impegnano in atti concreti, coraggiosi, visionari. Per immaginare un…
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China Outlaws Suggestion Algorithms – A step ahead or behind? 

Recommended Prisons  The dangers of platforms that use suggestion algorithms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have slowly been pushed into the public consciousness across the last half-decade. Given the absolutely massive user-bases of the platforms, the reports as to…
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Oggi come allora: la fuga degli artisti russi verso la libertà

La guerra in Ucraina sta rappresentando uno dei più drammatici eventi di questo 2022 e molto è stato detto e scritto a proposito. Uno degli aspetti forse meno noti è rappresentato dall’esodo di artisti e intellettuali russi. Essi, infatti,…
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Malattie veneree: perché testarsi ora (no, non c’è nessun buono sconto) 

Gli studi parlano chiaro: Noi giovani utilizziamo raramente il preservativo e i casi di malattie sessualmente trasmissibili sono in rapida crescita.
Gli studi parlano chiaro: Noi giovani utilizziamo raramente il preservativo e i casi di malattie sessualmente trasmissibili sono in rapida crescita. Lunedì mi sono finalmente decisa ad andare dalla ginecologa dopo un mese in cui provavo dolore. Se stai…
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Saving the World Twice?

Amongst the tragic news of war, dramatic food shortages, droughts, price rises and other disasters worldwide, a shining announcement got lost in the dimness of it all.   On March 14th, Moderna Inc. – that has now become a common…
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Un reale irreale

ullerà ogni distanza e ogni limite. Grazie ad un rapido e continuo processo di rinnovamento, la tecnologia è diventata una pilastro costitutivo del mondo moderno; è forse necessario, però, soffermarsi sul senso del suo vertiginoso progredire.
Da qualche mese, il titano dei media Mark Zuckerberg ha annunciato l’avvento di Meta, una nuova dimensione digitale che annullerà ogni distanza e ogni limite. Grazie ad un rapido e continuo processo di rinnovamento, la tecnologia è diventata una…
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Breve guida agli NFT: cosa sono e come si creano 

Tutti ne parlando, tutti li utilizzando e sembra che tutti stiano guadagnando grazie agli NFT. Ma come si creano e, soprattutto, come si vendono questi “gettoni digitali”?   Tutti noi (o quasi) abbiamo sentito parlare di Nyla Hyes, la dodicenne…
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Taking Up (Economic) Arms 

The microchip – a tiny, unassuming slab of silicon at the heart of an intensifying economic struggle between superpowers. This article explores the reasons behind the ever-increasing vitality of the microchip and its role in geopolitical tensions today. At…
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Hitting the Target in US Foreign Policy

On February 3rd, 13 civilians, including 6 children, were killed in Northwestern Syria during a US Special Operations raid. Despite visible attempts to change methodology, the US’ recent history of careless targeting and unfortunate civilian casualties is to be…
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Il Carnevale: un po’ per celia e un po’ per non morire

Il Carnevale è stato sempre vissuto come un momento di libertà, svago, ribaltamento dei ruoli. In questo articolo, esploriamo le origini di due degli eventi più famosi di questo periodo: il Carnevale di Venezia e quello Ambrosiano. Le origini…
Crises of journalism and Gonzo
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Crises of Journalism and Gonzo

What are the crises of journalism? How do they emerge? And what can we learn from Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo response to his era’s journalistic crisis? The Perpetual Crisis of Journalism Journalism is the cornerstone of Occidental societies, but…
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The Impact of Smart Wearables on the Health Sector

From the funky wristwatches of the late 2000s to today’s fitness bands, watches have dramatically evolved in recent years. Now, wearables, as they’re known, are changing the way consumers interact with the environment, and their popularity is growing more…
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The Great Sleep Divide

Sleep — Nature’s reset button. For many of us, sleep is a given — one whose health benefits we’ve never particularly considered. However, the rise of the insidious “sleep epidemic”, referring to the prevalence of inadequate sleep, has seen…
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U.S. public transportation. Why it is so bad and what is being done to change the situation

The current state of U.S. public transportation systems The United States is not a name that would come to mind if someone asked about a place where public transportation is readily available. Quite the contrary, it would be one…
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Cosa passa per la testa dei campioni?

Intervista alla Dottoressa Bruna Rossi, psicologa dei grandi campioni, nonché ex-atleta olimpionica di tuffi. I riflettori si accendono, lo spettacolo ha inizio: l’atleta o la squadra devono dare il meglio di se stessi di fronte ad un pubblico bramoso di…
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Scoring in ‘Real’ Life

A Review of Alberto Uncini Manganelli’s “Three Friends, One Game”  It was while watching his own son playing that Alberto Uncini Manganelli, author of “Three Friends, One Game”, remembered the feeling of smelling the fresh grass on Sunday morning,…
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COP26 a common effort to keep the 1,5° degree in sight  

Going behind the scenes of the most important climate event of the year. On November 13 a deal was reached at COP26 named after the city that hosted it as “The Glasgow Climate Pact”. While it is certainly not…
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Milan: the blue

An example of virtuosity for the city, between environmental issues and the pandemic  Milan’s M4 – known as “the Blue” – is the new underground in construction that will connect the Linate Airport to S. Cristoforo RS, cutting the…
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