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A mastery conservation and restoration of Ivan Aivazovsky

By Senior Experts Art Conservators and Restorers Venizelos G. Gavrilakis and Vaia A. Karagianni Ivan Aivazovsky, one of the most celebrated maritime painters of the 19th century, created luminous seascapes…

The clock is ticking

Noam Chomsky (The Progressive)¹ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts…

We grew in the second quarter thanks to construction, but we cannot control inflation

Levent Gürses In August, monthly inflation stood at 2.04 per cent, exceeding expectations of 1.79 per cent. According to Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data, annual inflation continued to decline due…

Recycling is cool, reducing is better: Fighting plastic pollution at source

Every year, the world produces record quantities of plastic. In 2021, according to the OECD, more than 400 million tonnes of plastic were produced worldwide, twice as much as in…

Chomsky: A Green New Deal can create jobs and livelihoods

Noam Chomsky History is all too rich in records of horrendous wars, indescribable torture, massacres, and every imaginable abuse of fundamental rights. But the threat of destruction of organised human…

How your car’s paint worsens the urban heat island effect

The study found that black cars increased heat by almost 4°C on hot summer days. On a scorching summer day, a parked car can feel like a furnace. New research…

Is the building crumbling?

Can Baydarol We ended the week with warnings coming from the European Union front. First, the former Italian prime minister, then European Central Bank President Mario Draghi raised the question,…

Should banks be telcos (and vice versa)

Chris Skinner I’m such a futurist nerd in banking that, thirty years ago, I forecast banks would open telco services and vice versa, and can prove it if you want.…

Geneva talks on plastic pollution reach a deadlock

Efforts to reduce global plastic pollution, which have been ongoing for years, have reached an impasse due to the United States’ opposition to production restrictions, which many countries see as…

Scenario

Can Baydarol Immediately after the bilateral summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska, several European leaders, the NATO Secretary General and Zelensky met at the White House to discuss the…