The Year 2011 will be marked as the year of social unrest and protests in the Latin American history. People came on streets protesting to defend their rights for education, to save their lands and demanding peace. In Chile and Colombia the major protest happened on the issue of education. […]

In Japan, traditionally university lasts four years. The students spend more than half of their time in job hunting, as if they do not get employment during the last two years of  university education, it is next to impossible to get a job after graduation. The students are so fed […]

The proposed 60% hike in the tuition fee by Québec’s premier fueled students protest in Québec, which is considered the cheapest education destination in Canada. The provincial and city governments have passed laws to crack down these student protests. Read more  

Here you can find a short introduction to the book “A Biography of Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies” by Siddharta Mukherjee. This book won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction. It deals with all of the unknown aspects of the fight against cancer. Mukherjee’s book makes cancer seem less like […]

Alcohol is regulated, so is cigarette and so are drugs; should we regulate sugar, too? asks this woman, writing for the New York Times. It seems that the health problems caused by this substance, although slow-moving, create numerous insidious complications and cause incalculable burdens for national health budgets. Read more […]