Mediterranean

It’s in the Mediterranean! — My family and I went to see the new Jurassic World movie, and God was it terrible. Just terrible. The editing was bad, and the choices for the plot were bad. It’s just, bad. What made it particularly bad for me is the part in Malta. I am not Maltese…

According to a new study, both a low-carb keto diet and a Mediterranean diet can help regulate blood sugar levels. Both diets are heavy in vegetables and low in sugar and processed grains, which helps to keep blood sugar levels stable. Keto dieters, on the other hand, had greater cholesterol…

Yolumuz Hatay’ın denize girmek için en çok tercih edilen ilçesi Arsuz’a düştü. Denizi gerçekten girilesi, fakat haziran ortalarına gelmemize rağmen tam olarak ısınmamıştı. Akdeniz’in bile doğru düzgün ısınamadığı ilginç bir yaz oluyor. Deniz faslından sonra köyiçi denilen tarihi kent merkezine gittik. Burada “Rhosus Antik Kent Merkezi Projesi”…

VoxEurop, June 2022 Sa Tanca Manna, the thousand-year-old olive tree symbol of Cuglieri, was a source of real pride for local people. Sixteen metres tall and ten metres wide, the tree was considered the progenitor of all the olive trees in this corner of northwestern Sardinia known for the quality…

Ci deve essere un patto segreto tra le isole del mediterraneo che disegna il loro lato occidentale con gli stessi tratti, profumi, colori. Ad ovest tutte le isole sono più aperte, selvatiche che non a levante, che si tratti di Ponza, Ischia, Sardegna o Sicilia. Che sia il maestrale o…

I came across this article on a memory stick that I was cleaning up: I wrote it a couple of years ago after an ‘interesting’ train journey from London to Manchester. The West Coast franchise is no longer with Virgin Rail (thankfully), but the article is ever more applicable today…

In many places of the world, rural and agricultural land is becoming abandoned. However, what are the effects of land abandonment on biodiversity and local communities? A new systematic literature review advances to answer those questions. — Fractured old stone ruins, overgrown with plants and trees, the remains of residential buildings and agricultural infrastructure, and old uncultivated terraced landscapes— when traveling in Southern Spain, one can easily follow the gradient from densely settled, lively urban areas towards the more rural environments, in which land is becoming more…

Discoveries of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean promise to turn regional players like Egypt and Turkey from energy consumers into suppliers. But not Europe. From the Bismarck Brief, a weekly intelligence-grade analysis of an important institution, industry, or live player. The European Union’s foremost geopolitical challenge is its massive…