Coming to the End…
I am a senior student at Bilkent, and as we are already more than halfway through this semester, it means I have only five weeks left on this beautiful campus. In most areas of
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We’ll Never Listen to These Songs at a Concert
The release of a new album is an exciting thing for both bands and fans. Bands will come out with different ideas, reveal how they have transformed since their previous album, and offer a
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City of 1001 Churches
Beautiful ancient ruins and even more breathtaking surroundings full of streams, rivers and cliffs, and a taste of small-town professional conflict – that was all last weekend. I’m particularly excited to talk about this
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On the Turkish Language
I’ve spoken two languages for as long as I can remember. I regard both with infinite tenderness. I use English rather more often, for discourse and science and poetry; I am familiar with its
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The Clock Is Ticking
I was watching a video on the Vsauce channel on YouTube. At one point, Vsauce host Michael said that researchers have determined that half of all the people who ever existed died from malaria.
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On Finding Peace
There once was a stone, riddled with tiny holes like the moon is with craters; darkened by the seasons and the earth, it lay near the bottom of a hill, as if holding the
Read More »New People of the New World: Social/Asocial
“Her,” written and directed by Spike Jonze, is a science-fiction/drama movie. It shows us scenes from the near future, shaped around a love story. Nowadays, technology has brought human beings to a point where
Read More »Golden Age of Stoner Rock
Since Josh Homme and Kyuss spread stoner rock from California to the rest of the world in the early 90s, an underground stoner revolution has been going on across Europe. Maybe you’ve never heard
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