Interview with Yakup Canik at Ekosol by Elif Sarper and Edlin Gülzari 1. How do you explain your job to your child? I have a 10 year old daughter and a garden. My daughter grows in sync with animals. We work together in the garden. As she had met every worm that had…
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Wake Up, a café founded by a group of high school students faced police crackdown after a student informer, informed the İstanbul Security Forces of it’s illegal trafficking. It has been detected that Wake Up has been involved in illegal coffee trafficking for over 6 months. Last night armed police officers supported by tear gas…
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This interview has been conducted by two artists, not only well known for their individual successes but also for their ability to produce so much at such a young age. Eyşan Özhim, born in İzmir in 1970, was elected 2nd Miss Turkey in the 1990 beauty contest, has graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of…
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You probably have not thought about it at all but when you come to think of it you will see that we all love playing this game for the reasons that we do not even realize or even aware of. For most of the Facebook users it became like a kind of an addiction, they…
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Just another teddy bear the nurses give to children to calm them down while using medical devices… But the only difference is that this teddy bear IS the medical device! The Teddy Guardian has been invented by two masters students (Majic and Burica) in Zagreb, Croatia. The students, who realized that the kids in the…
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The co-founders of Backyard Brains, Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo created a project where you can control a cockroach. The company ship live cockroaches attached with a microelectronic hardware and a surgical kit to control the cockroach to the people who want it. Electrodes that feed into their antennae control their movements. Even though Gage…
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Last year a robot made by Boston Dynamics, called Cheetah, managed to outrun the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt on a treadmill. Back then, it was plugged in and supported by electricity. This year they have upgraded the Cheetah and managed to add more abilities to the robot. They called the new version WildCat. The…
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Muhammad Ali said: “His was a life filled with purpose and hope – hope for himself, his country and the world.” “He made us realise we are our brother’s keeper and that our brothers come in all colours.” Pele said Mandela was “one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero,…
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A very complex issue that seems to be resolved at the moment is Russia and the US’s plans for stopping Syrian president Esad’s use of chemical weapons on his own country’s citizens. Initially it was strongly predicted that the US would stop Esad with military force but Russia asked Esad to give up his weapons…
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A couple of trees could have been saved if just the Turkish youth had fought for them, but millions chose to fight for something else, something much greater through the help of the trees at Taksim Gezi Park: Democracy, Trust and Solidarity. At the very beginning of the Gezi Park protests, it was only a…
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1.50.000 children in Senegal are forced to beg 2. Parents send their kids to a school that teaches the Kuran but the headmasters send them on the streets to earn money. 3. These children are between the age of 5 and 14. 4. The government does not force laws that prevent child labor. 5. They…
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Catching Fire is the second film of ‘The Hunger Games’ which is released on November 22 and still playing in cinemas. Katniss Everdeen, the main character, returned home safe after winning the 74th Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark. Now on the President Snow prepares the 75th Hunger Games which is going to determine everything. Catching…
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