Ukraine recap: downbeat US intelligence leak suggests no end in sight for the misery of this war: What we know – or think we know – about the progress of the war in Ukraine over the past few days has come courtesy of leaked Pentagon documents which appear to cover, in some detail, a wide …
Cuba’s mass protests are driven by the misery of COVID and economic sanctions: Cubans take to the streets of Havana in the largest anti-government protest in decades. 14ymedio via YouTube Cuba has recently riven by what the BBC has referred to as “the biggest protests in decades”. What appear to be largely spontaneous outpourings of …
South Africa in the news: Apartheid laws created the misery that SA’s children and their caregivers find themselves in: We have recently seen worrisome media reports of children bullying each other. To understand the root cause of bullying, we must address the underlying drivers of violence in children’s environments, …: “South Africa” – BingNews What …
Beethoven 250: analysis of the composer’s letters proves that creativity does spring forth from misery: Portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820 Wikimedia The notion that artistic creativity and emotional state are somehow related goes back to the time of Aristotle. However, it is extremely difficult to quantify the degree of misery (or happiness) …