Finland and Estonia to build a 100 km long undersea tunnel between their capitals

    An important milestone for the proposed undersea tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn will soon be reached. Also known ...

A roundabout under the Atlantic Ocean? Faroe Islands just opened one!

Faroe Islands Eysturoy Tunnel roundabout A World-First Denmark’s Faroe Islands officially opened the Eysturoy Tunnel. Apart from being a long ...

A Run of the Life on Galapagos Islands

So, you think the life is harsh on you. That you have to find a work, worse, spend the best ...

European Hyperloop Network : Amsterdam – Frankfurt in 50 minutes with 7 stops in between?

Finally Hyperloop arrives in continental Europe. As a vision at least. The Netherlands-based technology company Hard Hyperloop proposes a hyperloop ...

Research: World War II ‘Hongerwinter’ is engraved into Dutch genes

The people who were in utero during the ‘Hongerwinter‘ are likely to suffer consequences during all their lives, says a ...

The Dutch have penetrated Russia’s Cyber Espionage Unit and turned it into a ‘Big Brother’ house

  Prominent Dutch newspaper ‘de Volkskrant’ reveals in an article (in Dutch) that the Dutch Intelligence Service AIVD has managed ...

Genocide in your leadership & you can still keep your Sakharov Prize & Nobel Peace Prize

  Myanmar’s Rohingya population is suffering a genocide. Even the high commissioner for human rights of an ever-diplomatic organization like ...

How do you run a fake US Embassy?

And you do it for whole 10 years?  Issuing genuine US visas and doing things what diplomatic posts do? Not ...

Air Pollution responsible for about 467 000 premature deaths in Europe

  In a stark warning  to EU officials, a new report by European Environment Agency (EEA) says, air pollution has ...

Heavenly or not: This is how religions spread over the centuries on surface of the Earth!

  Some believe the religions came from the heavens, some believe not. Curiously though, 3 of the biggest religions of ...

Germany wants EU to remove recycling targets, fueling speculations about its motives….

European Commission’s Circular Economy Package (CEP) sets the municipal waste recycling targets at 60% by 2025 and 65% by 2030 ...

Europe by Night: Views from the Space

Europe by Night – photo taken . Author unknown (NASA). NASA, USA’s space agency, regularly releases the pictures taken by ...

For now, it is their numbers exploding! – Nuclear Reactors Per Country

While the news about green and renewable energy take up the front pages on World’s media, some other way of ...

Book Club: What I Believe – “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”

  “In human affairs, we can see that there are forces making for happiness, and forces making for misery. We ...

Coffee capsules: What is the problem?

The city of Hamburg in north Germany has banned the use of council money on the coffee capsules (they did ...

Film Club: Spotlight

Spotlight is the true story of how a Boston (USA) newspaper has investigated the widespread sexual abuse of children by ...

Renewable Energy Percentages in European Countries

Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, ...

Why does this toilet paper cost so much in Europe?

A person in The Netherlands gets 48.000 (forty eight thousand) euro from the Dutch government to distribute free toilet paper ...

Gift idea for your Russian oligarch friend: Icy lake cruising ATV

According to its manufacturer Sherp, this Russian built ATV can take you to the icy lakes and the swamps without ...

Book club: When Breath Becomes Air

What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing ...

A ball game for the 21st Century: Korfbal (or ‘Korfball’ if you are unsophisticated)

Korfbal (or “Korfball“ in its Anglicized form) is a ball sport which is gaining popularity in recent years. Probably because ...

Film club: The Assassin

The Taiwan-China-Hong Kong co-production The Assassin might be an oversight for the 2015 Oscars, but certainly appreciated more at another ...

“Guard from above”: Dutch police trains eagles to catch the drones

The use of drones increases exponentially. So does the the concerns regarding security, safety  and privacy. In the Netherlands, there ...

Clash of Europe and USA on a European art: Opera

  Opera is a European art form. There is no way around it. It has been invented in Europe and ...

This app tells you who stole your laptop,where he is now and who his friends are

Ever got your mobile phone or laptop stolen? It sucks. But wait, this software from Argentina can help you recover ...

For now, it is their numbers exploding! – Nuclear Reactors Per Country

While the news about green and renewable energy take up the front pages on World’s media, some other way of ...