Fuck you Facebook? By Tessa Pang | Magazine | November 20, 2021 Magazine Reporter Tessa Pang writes that the notion that Facebook needs to be regulated by decisive legislation is uncontested. She argues that discourse blaming Facebook for everything that’s gone wrong – from the rise of right-wing extremism to disinformation – only obfuscates responsibility from those actually at fault, allowing them to remain faceless in the shadows. We’ve spent…
Does It Actually Help? Course Evaluation Improves Course Design By Ellie Hsu | Campus | November 19, 2021 Cover Illustration: Girl filling course evaluation. Anabella Villanueva / The Amsterdammer Campus Reporter Ellie Hsu sheds light on the Program Committee who works with professors to incorporate the feedback from the course evaluations that UvA students are hesitant to fill out. At the University of Amsterdam, professors and lecturers ask students to fill…
360 Degrees of Wonder: Vincent meets Rembrandt – The Untold Story By Isabella Nijm | Metro City | November 15, 2021 Illustration: The aesthetic walls of De Nieuwe Kirk of the Vincent Meets Rembrandt exhibition. It is one thing to look at a painting and another thing to understand it. But have you ever seen a painting come to life? Upon entering Noorderkerk, a Protestant church from the 17th century in Amsterdam,…
Inspirational Movies for Future Writers and Poets By Romana Petkovska | Magazine | November 14, 2021 Illustration by Fiona Murray/Unsplash The world of cinema is for many people an inseparable part of life. It was not so long ago when people massively watched shows and movies on their TVs – one might say addictively. Now, most of us turn on Netflix to binge-watch series and rewatch favorite films or series that…
Indigenous Environmentalism is Calling, Science Fails to Respond By Michele Affinito | Magazine | November 13, 2021 Cover Illustration: Small nipa huts in the mountains of Magdalena, Colombia. Unsplash Humanity has become too detached from nature, and so has science. From the Global North to the Global South, humanity in the 21st century shares the idea of progress as an arrow pointing towards the future. However, in one corner of the…
Slovakia and Slovenia: Yes, There is a Difference By Tamara Kanuchova | Magazine | October 26, 2021 Cover Illustration: The Biele Pleso (White Iceberg Lake) in the High Tatras, photographed in 2020. Tamara Kanuchova / The Amsterdammer “Hello everyone, I’m Tamara and I come from Slovakia.” “Oh, the capital is Ljubljana, right?” “No. No, it’s not. Our capital is Bratislava. Don’t get me wrong, I get your confusion. It’s funny how…
