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Today we speak about animal exploitation.
There are not the same rules in all EU nations. Some states have enacted laws banning the use of all types of animals and others do not even have laws to protect them. Discover more and read our latest D-Story.
Over the years, concern about the use of wild animals for entertainment in circuses has increased. This has led to growing demands from the public to end this practice and thus national legislation in EU member states was born.
Our new V-Story is online!
It's a reportage from Colombia made by Simone Ferrari in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Milano e Pontificia Universidad Javeriana di Bogotà.
There are indigenous people fighting Narcos in Colombia, they fight for their tradition, for their freedom and for their ancestral territories.
To see the complete reportage click on the red button EXPLORE.
The resistance and defeats of the local communities from the Colombian Andes in the face of drug trade.
Only 3% of streets in Milan are dedicated to women. In numbers it is 141 out of about 3600 streets. 51.9% of the people who live in Milan are women. They go from being the majority in daily life to being the minority in toponymy.
Only 3% of streets in Milan are dedicated to women. In numbers it is 141 out of about 3600 streets. 51.9% of the people who live in Milan are women. They go from being the majority in daily life to being the minority in toponymy. This is the snapshot of the streets in Milan.
Read our latest story, it's about , technology, the difference between nuclear and fusion reactors.
There is also an analysis of the use of Russian nuclear to better read and understand the context in which we are moving these days.
https://visualeyed.com/d-stories/article/war-and-energy-nuclear-threat-or-salvation/
Thursday, February 24. It's six o'clock in the morning when Russian president Vladimir Putin orders his troops to cross the border and attack Ukraine. Thousands are leaving the war zones to find refuge in the European Union. The invaded nation is resisting, and the West continues to support it by se...
Women are interrupted 12% more than men in economic seminars.
The University of Stanford collected and analysed data from 33 American institutions and found the amount of gender disparities in the economic and academic sector: check here their results.
http://bit.ly/DStories_Mansplaining
On September 13, 2020 Scuderia Ferrari, the most famed team in the history of Formula 1 and the only one to compete in each season since the sport was born in 1950, reached the milestone of its 1000th World Championship race.
Thanks to the author Andrea Giambelli for the collaboration.
https://lnkd.in/eiAUrTT
Have you ever heard of Elena Delle Donne ?
In the WNBA, the premiere women basketball league in the United States, no one is close to Elena Delle Donne’s achievement.
As she finished her trip to the free-throw line against her former team during the final game of the 2019 WNBA season, she had made her six free-throws of the night, capping a year where she went 114 of 117 from the line, for a season’s free-throw shooting percentage (FT%) of 97.4%.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_FreeThrowBasket
«I suffered from the fact that no one was telling stories about where we’re from», says Ziki Nelson, one of the founders of the African platform Kugali .
The success of comics on African superheroes has been trending for some years now.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_AfricanAnimation
The platform Kugali has been particularly noticed: it was founded by a Ugandan and two Nigerians thanks to an important deal with Disney for the production of a sci-fi series titled Iwájú and set in a futuristic version of Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city.
Do you know how many northern white rhinos are currently living in the whole world? Just two: Najin and Fatu, mother and daughter, 31 and 20 years old.
Scientists are thinking about using Najin and Fatu as surrogate mother in order to save this species, but this couldn't be enough to create healthy little rhinos.
They are called Najin and Fatu, and their subspecies is extinct because of man: science is now trying to fix it, but with poor results.
Have you ever peed in a pool and said "everybody does it"? Well, bad news for you.
Michael Phelps declared to Post : "I think everybody pees in the pool, it's kind of a normal thing to do for swimmers".
Many people and many swimmers are used to do it, but actually it's really dangerous.
The chlorine in the swimming pool combined with human excretions, sweat and urine creates the chloramine, a chemical compound which irritates our eyes and skin.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_Poolwater
Michael Phelps is the top winner in the history of the Olympic Games: he won 28 Olympic medals, of which 23 are gold, he holds the record of 8 gold medals won during the Beijing Olympic Games, and he broke world records in individual medley, freestyle, and butterfly.
Have you ever heard of "Data Literacy" and "Numeracy"? Donata Columbro, data humanizer and data expert, talks about the open data issue and other specific aspects inside the wide world of data. She is currently president of the Dataninja School and knows deeply the connections between data and society. Here you can find the full interview!
http://bit.ly/Dstories_DonataColumbro
Imagine if Italy had been excluded! Fortunately, Mameli’s Hymn and the Italian flag are safe: Italy will go to the 2021 Olympics.
http://bit.ly/DStories_MamelisHymn
On 26 January, exactly the day before the deadline of the ultimatum issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Council of Ministers approved the decree-law that returns autonomy to the Coni. Italy can officially participate in the 2021 Olympics with its own anthem and flag, making it possible for every Italian athlete to go to Tokyo.
On 13 January Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death by lethal injection, in Indiana. Lisa Montgomey suffered from serious psychological disorders and her intellectual disabilities made her more vulnerable. Can US sentence to death people with these kind of diseases?
http://bit.ly/Dstories_MontgomeryCase
Have you ever heard of Lacrosse?
Imagine a hockey field. Now enlarge it and make it the size of a regular football field, plant some grass in it. Take two goals, 1.8 meters by 1.8 meters, and place them at the far end of the field, but about ten meters inwards.
Put two teams of ten players on the field, each holding a stick with which he/she can pass the ball in the air.
The purpose of the game? Scoring: whoever scores the most goals wins.
Check our Data Story to discover more http://bit.ly/Dstories_Lacrosse1
Italia Lacrosse
Have you ever heard of open data? We asked Isaia Invernizzi, data journalist at il Post , to explain the open data issue. He says: "I believe that we need not only more open data, but also better data: not just quantity, but also quality." Read the full interview to discover more information about open data and how it could improve our society.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_Invernizzi
Germany is considering modifying its phonetic alphabet after a proposal by Michael Blume, responsible for the commission against anti-Semitism in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, because some terms still have a racist and anti-Semitic meaning.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_GermanyAlphabet
In autumn 2021 a new version of Germany’s phonetic alphabet should be proposed, which should become official by the end of 2022, but many Germans don't want to change this alphabet, which is often used to learn new words at school through spelling.
The ecovillages are experiments attempted to recreate a “return to origins”: the most concrete evolution of the modern communal movement from a sustainable point of view.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_Ecovillage
Europe counts more than a hundred: from Christiania, Copenhagen’s free city active since 1971 to the Findhorn Foundation in Great Britain and the German Lebengarden. Have you ever visited one of these places?
Foreigners are more at risk of contracting the virus and of experiencing poverty because of the pandemic.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_Foreigners
Moreover, in Europe the virus spread has coincided with an increase in hate and xenophobia especially against illegal immigrants. The European system needs to change in terms of rights and economic migrations in order to manage its inefficiencies showed during 2020.
Today only five women gained the famous three-stars Michelin: Nadia Santini, Elena Arzak, Dominique Crenn, Annie Feolde, Anne-Sophie Pic, only the 4% of the total restaurants recognised.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_Chef
Elisabetta Ruspini, an italian sociologist, says that in this sector there are a lot of stereotypes. For example, on TV we can see women washing kitchen and cooking, but when it cames to top-end cuisine, media show us only male chefs. Over the last years, something has changed but the percentage of female in the high cuisine is still too low.
Instead of a demographic growth all over the world during the next decades, experts say that in 2100 we'll be only 8.8 billion people, so the population will constantly decrease.
http://bit.ly/dStories_population
Indeed, every countries will deal with different situations.
For example, 25 countries like Cina, Japac, Taiwan, Italia, Greece will lose more or less the half of their citizens, but other countries in Africa and Middle East will see for many years a population growth out of control.
The pandemic is currently showing us that internet access can't be taken for granted all over the world.
http://bit.ly/dStories_InternetAccess
In fact, many people, especially in developing countries, don't have enough money to buy technological devices or they haven't internet connections.
Internet connection is fundamental for people of different ages: students, teenagers, adults, but also for elders.
The possibility to use our technological devices allows us to study, communicate, work, share emotions, images, videos, photos and all kind of cultures, most of all during this highly complicated situation caused by the virus spread.
According to Alzheimer's Disease International, in 2017 there were 50 millions of people suffering from this disease, especially over 65.
http://bit.ly/Dstories_CitiesMemory
It's difficult to deal with this people because they constantly need support, attention and help from different points of view. One possible solution could be the creation of small villages really different from the well-known nursing homes.
Here they can feel like home because of a specific design and architecture of the structures and a particular managing of medical treatments.
These places are built in order to preserve the dignity of patients suffering from Alzheimer disease.
In 1997, Canadian student Alana decided to found a small blog called "Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project" to find and support people who (like her) were encountering difficulties in establishing interpersonal relationships, because of shyness.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_Femcel
The concept of “Involuntary Celibacy” shifted over time, since some male users chose it to represent their conviction that women refused them on account of their appearance or some personality traits. We are dealing with Incels, notorious because of the mass murders of the last years in North America. While the incel culture has been explored more comprehensively, its female counterpart has always been ignored.
Here for you our weekly Editor's Review with three articles about migration issues.
https://bit.ly/EditorsReview_HumanFlow
Raising Barriers from Washington Post tells the stories of people who try to move among borders built in US, Mexico and Europe.
Rohingya Crisis from Reuters shows interactive stories on the mass exodus of the Rohingya population from Myanmar to Bangladesh. Climate refugee from The New York Times Magazine & Pro-Publica explains that climate change could cause an unprecedented mass migration: the 1% of the world’s land is too hot to be inhabited, but scientific projections estimate that the percentage will increase to 20% in 2070.
Nowayadys, singers don't produce many singles and albums. Why?
https://bit.ly/Dstories_PopStar
There are many reasons, but the main of them is that they prefer working also in other sectors like fashion or TV business, because the music isn't profitable enough.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women are changing their society and in particular the artisanal mining sector.
https://bit.ly/Vstories_WomenMining
Since 2006, women have started to unite in associations and have gotten together around a tightly-knit network known by the French acronym of RENAFEM (National Network of Women in Mining). Women feel the need to demand their own rights by escaping the dominating framework of total subjugation towards men. RENAFEM has proven to be a powerful network, helping thousands of women self-determinate and liberate themselves from stereotypes.
Many people think that Twitter isn't really important nowadays, compared to Facebook and other social networks.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_Twitter
Actually, it influences many people all over the world expecially with its viral hashtags. is a clear exemple of a worldwide phenomenon, but also US elections and other political, environmental, cultural, social but also private and personal issues. Does Twitter represent our real life?
The immigration issue is highly important all over the world, also during this pandemic.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_ImmigrationItaly
The 2020 Immigration Statistical Dossier shows that there are more problems about immigration in addition to emergency landings. Foreigners have to deal with finding a decent job, studying, saving money and living decently in a new country with a new language.
The political attention is less focused on social immigration issue and on the integration of foreigners because many times the immigration policies are seen just a financial outlay. We need to be more tolerant, that is an essential attitude during these hard times.
The first of December is the World AIDS Day, but often the media attention isn't highly focused on children suffering from HIV.
According to the estimate of UNAIDS, about 1,7 million people have contracted HIV in 2019 and many of them are children or adolescents between 0 and 19 years old. Unicef reports that the virus spread isn't homogeneous around the world and in many areas such as Africa it's hard to keep track of children affected by HIV, especially during their first months of life. It's necessary to develop a new strategy of prevention, medical treatments and testing.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_HIV
Here for you our Editor's Review.
https://bit.ly/EditorsReview_GenderGap
This week we have chosen the topic of Gender gap and we suggest you these three articles: Too many man from Washington Post, that illustrates the gender imbalance in Cina and India, highly populous regions; Gender Pay Gap: What we know from The Guardian: this data driven article shows how many employment sectors present differences between the salary of men and women; Mind the Gender Gap from South China Morning Post, a visual and interactive article that explains the role of women in Asia-Pacific areas both in University and in the workplace.
Jacinta Ardern won the elections in New Zealand. She is the leader of the Labour party, that managed so well the first lockdown that only few people were affected by Covid-19, compared to other states of the world.
She is highly appreciated by the citizens because of her behavior, determination and courage. Ardern has also created one of the most inclusive parliament in the whole world.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_Ardern
Today is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. We analyzed the UNDESA and The World Bank data in order to give you a broad picture about the violence against women and the law in defense of them.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_25november
People need specific laws about different kinds of abuse: phisical, psychological, sexual or verbal. What is the overall situation? Is the power of the law fighting aggressions against female population?
Here for you our Editor's Review with three articles about Black Lives Matter.
https://bit.ly/EditorReview_BLM
This week we suggest you: Fatal Force from Washington Post, that won the Pulitzer Price in 2016; Inside the battle for Downtown Portland from The New York Times, a multimedia reportage with maps and photographs; How Black Lives Matter reached every corner of America from The New York Times, about the "segregation" of many American people. Do you think media should talk more about this issue?
In 1918, the Spanish flu forced the nascent silent film industry to stop. Today, just over 100 years later, the situation is the same.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_Cinema
Making reliable estimates about the coming year is complicated, but resisting the impact of the Coronavirus will not be easy even for film studios.
The parallel market related to pharmaceutical industry is the cause of serious problems like the lack of medicines and the delay of therapies. https://bit.ly/Dstories_MedicineAccess
The pandemic could teach us the importance of adopting a common and shared strategy, in order to create and distribute medicines all over the world.
How do the academic researches face the Covid-19?
https://bit.ly/Dstories_research
In Italy, the academic research was already compromised and precarious before the pandemic, but now it's getting worse. Many libraries and archives are currently closed so, where can academic researches find their sources?
Here for you, our weekly Editor's Review with three well-designed articles about the climate change: https://bit.ly/EditorsReview_Climate
Gone in a Generation from Post: diagrams, statistics, maps and interviews about the climate change. This is a deep reportage both visual and narrative.
How much hotter is your hometown than you were born? from The New York Times. Data-perception and Virtual Reality are the protagonists of this report about CO2 emissions.
How thawing permafrost could fuel climate warming from Reuters. This illustrated article is focused on the Artic permafrost that seems to be alarmingly thawing.
Did you already know how serious is this problem?
How much did Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden spend in Facebook ADS during these elections? Using the Facebook AD Library we deeply studied their investment. In fact, AD Library provides the ads transparency across Facebook apps, services and Instagram too.
https://bit.ly/dstories_BidenWin
The LGBTQ+ world is extremely varied.
Within it there are very different stories and people of any ethnicity, yet its face has almost always the same traits according to most brands and governments: white, young, and neat.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_Stereotype
We can't ignore the deafness, expecially during the pandemic. Many deaf people and others affected by intellectual disabilities are used to read lips, but now with our masks their comprehension of the reality is incredibly compromised.
https://bit.ly/Dstories_TransparentMask
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Have you ever heard of open data? We asked Isaia Invernizzi, data journalist at il Post , to explain the open data issue. He says: "I believe that we need not only more open data, but also better data: not just quantity, but also quality." Read the full interview to discover more information about open data and how it could improve our society. https://bit.ly/Dstories_Invernizzi
The ecovillages are experiments attempted to recreate a “return to origins”: the most concrete evolution of the modern communal movement from a sustainable point of view. http://bit.ly/Dstories_Ecovillage Europe counts more than a hundred: from Christiania, Copenhagen’s free city active since 1971 to the Findhorn Foundation in Great Britain and the German Lebengarden. Have you ever visited one of these places?
In 1997, Canadian student Alana decided to found a small blog called "Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project" to find and support people who (like her) were encountering difficulties in establishing interpersonal relationships, because of shyness. https://bit.ly/Dstories_Femcel The concept of “Involuntary Celibacy” shifted over time, since some male users chose it to represent their conviction that women refused them on account of their appearance or some personality traits. We are dealing with Incels, notorious because of the mass murders of the last years in North America. While the incel culture has been explored more comprehensively, its female counterpart has always been ignored.
Nowayadys, singers don't produce many singles and albums. Why? https://bit.ly/Dstories_PopStar There are many reasons, but the main of them is that they prefer working also in other sectors like fashion or TV business, because the music isn't profitable enough.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, women are changing their society and in particular the artisanal mining sector. https://bit.ly/Vstories_WomenMining Since 2006, women have started to unite in associations and have gotten together around a tightly-knit network known by the French acronym of RENAFEM (National Network of Women in Mining). Women feel the need to demand their own rights by escaping the dominating framework of total subjugation towards men. RENAFEM has proven to be a powerful network, helping thousands of women self-determinate and liberate themselves from stereotypes.
Many people think that Twitter isn't really important nowadays, compared to Facebook and other social networks. https://bit.ly/Dstories_Twitter Actually, it influences many people all over the world expecially with its viral hashtags. #Metoo is a clear exemple of a worldwide phenomenon, but also US elections and other political, environmental, cultural, social but also private and personal issues. Does Twitter represent our real life?
Jacinta Ardern won the elections in New Zealand. She is the leader of the Labour party, that managed so well the first lockdown that only few people were affected by Covid-19, compared to other states of the world. She is highly appreciated by the citizens because of her behavior, determination and courage. Ardern has also created one of the most inclusive parliament in the whole world. https://bit.ly/Dstories_Ardern
In 1918, the Spanish flu forced the nascent silent film industry to stop. Today, just over 100 years later, the situation is the same. https://bit.ly/Dstories_Cinema Making reliable estimates about the coming year is complicated, but resisting the impact of the Coronavirus will not be easy even for film studios.
How much did Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden spend in Facebook ADS during these elections? Using the Facebook AD Library we deeply studied their investment. In fact, AD Library provides the ads transparency across Facebook apps, services and Instagram too. https://bit.ly/dstories_BidenWin
Fintech’s Chinese ant. http://bit.ly/dStories_ANT Ant is a company owned by Jack Ma, the e-commerce giant who has revolutionized the field of mobile payments. We are speaking of 15 thousand billions. This is the amount of money managed in the thousands of transactions made on Alipay, the finance app founded in 2004 by the Alibaba group.
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