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Week 1 [07.10-13.10.19] Ant War

Kurzgesagt is a YouTube channel that provides science related videos with funny and enjoyable animation. There is plenty of content and I definitely recommend giving them a try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_e0CA_nhaE 1.  Have you ever heard about Kurzgesagt? 2.  Do you thing that material created this way is easier to learn? 3.  Did you know that there is a war on that scale right under your nose?

Week 1 [07.10-13.10.19] Learning from the industry

Every year in Europe around 20 million people decide to go to the university. We study in order to get familiar with the subject that interests us and acquire compelling job with good salary. It's a common sense that the higher your degree is the better you should prosper since our society created this career ladder. Unfortunately this is not happening in many cases, there are many obstacles on our way that have to be overcome. One I see coming up often is a long period of time when you have to study but you can't work at the same time. My good friend is getting her master degree as physiotherapist (you have to study for five years) yet she only work in profession for less then a year. In order to obtain even higher education she will have to study for another four years as well as write an article's and practise specified number of hours. To sum up she has to study for nine years and after that she will be able to gain experience. Of course you can work in the industry wh...

Week 1 [ 07.10-13.10] Are we on the verge of the recession?

Every recession in the US have been “predicted” by the yield curve. What is it, and how it works? Watch the video below to find out! 1.        Do you think that we are on the verge on another recession? 2.        Do you think that the yield curve actually predicts anything or is it a pure coincidence? 3.        Have you ever bought any type of bond?

Week 1 [ 07.10-13.10.19] What’s the deal with Hong Kong protests?

Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers are out in the streets, protesting a deeply unpopular bill. While fighting for withdrawal of the ELAB (the bill that would allow local authorities to extradite people to countries that Hong Kong doesn’t have extradition agreements with), they are fighting about the status of Hong Kong, their freedom,   and the influence of mainland China over them. It all started with murder committed by one of Hong Kong citizens on his girlfriend in Taiwan, the perpetrator confessed a month later after returning to Hong Kong. He couldn’t be charged for this crime in HK because the crime was committed in another country, he couldn’t be extradited to Taiwan to be charged there because, this two countries don’t have an extradition agreement. Because of this HK officials proposed a deal that would allow them to extradite people to countries that they don’t have extradition agreements with. Hongkongers are afraid that signing this bill would allow the local offi...