How much can you know about a person from her public digital footprints? Someone tweeting as @foxyfolklorist and writing for the blog My Sex Professor, must at least be blessed with a decent sense of humor, which is quite certain:
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While many of Jeana’s tweets are hilarious, the issues she tackles in her blog could hardly get more serious:
Raul Eamets, Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Tartu, makes an analogy between last year’s remarkable step for the Estonian economy – the introduction of the euro – and getting married, while admitting the non-appearance of a much anticipated honeymoon, as the timing for the wedding was far from perfect.
UT professor of macroeconomics Raul Eamets in his office. Photo by Andres Tennus.
Let’s imagine you’re a doctor and the Estonian economy is coming in for a check-up. What would be your diagnosis?
The condition of the Estonian economy is quite good. Most vital indicators are all right, when we look at the state budget and the debt. But there are problems with immunity – we’re receptive and very dependent on what’s going on around us. Our economy is too small, so it’s not just about our good work. Continue reading →
In this interview, Kakhi Sanikidze, a.k.a. Kevin, talks about what Georgian people are like, how Georgian students who study at UT stay close and care for each other, and how Georgians and Estonians are different.
To really see what Kakhi is saying, watch his video on how he and his ten Georgian friends, Mariam Misabishvili, Mariam Chubabria, Lexo Chanadiri, Tamo Geliashvili, Natia Sharikadze, Eto Gobronidze, Nino Kvirkvelia, Tamta Kupatadze, Nino Kuloshvili, and Shota Kakabadze, celebrated the New Year at the Raatuse dorm:
Inga: During the last minute of 2011, your friends were busy burning pieces of paper with their wishes written on them and drinking champagne with the ashes. There seemed to be some panic – was everyone on time, or will some wishes remain unfulfilled now?
Kakhi: Yes, we have this little tradition – I don’t know where it comes from. Still, it’s popular and fun. We all hope we did it on time but some of us couldn’t burn the paper properly, and some seemed to be late. I think it’s more about whether you believe in your wish – we believe they will come true so we’ll see. Continue reading →
I am honored to be among the co-founders of two influential non-profit initiatives in Estonia: MobileMonday (established in 2007) and Garage48 (established in 2010). MobileMonday (MoMo) unites Estonian people connected to the mobile sector, while Garage48 is the first and, so far, most successful weekend hackathon (a hacker marathon) in Estonia, where ideas are put into tenetative action.
These initiatives and the fact that I have gradually turned into an entrepreneur have given me a certain overview about the goings-on of firms with lofty business plans that are firing up in Estonia, as well as a reason to ponder the problems in this sector.
While ozone is essential to protecting life on Earth, it’s beginning to become a threat to public health as the climate is warming.
9–18 miles high in the stratosphere, the ozone layer protects the Earth from ultraviolet radiation, but near the ground, ozone is a poisonous waste product, harmful to living organisms.
Once entering the human lungs, ozone reacts with proteins and fats, causing an inflammatory process. It could lead to intensification of asthma, and cause chronic bronchitis, hyperapnea, and cardiovascular diseases.
Ozone is mostly a summer problem, because of increased temperature and sunlight. It poses a greater threat to suburban environments. Photo: Toomas Tuul.
Remo Gramigna is a doctoral student of semiotics and the runner-up for the UT Student Journalist Contests in 2011 and 2010 (the contest winner in 2009!). This is his contest entry, which won the public vote last year.
In Calabria (Italy), in the city of Scalea some weeks ago.
Yes. I have been waiting for this moment. How many times have I found myself sitting in this very same place holding a pen and writing about ways of being, feelings, emotions and so forth? Countless times. This time I have a hard endeavour, the hardest task: describing beauty and happiness. I’m not that good at it. I almost always dwell on the other side of the fence, where writing becomes a comforting friend to handle woe. I will perform my task with a letter, with a language that is not my own. I shall write it to make it resound as a ringing bell, to be heard from a great distance, to be read from abroad. I shall write it by hand for it shall trace the pulse of my veins, the tension of my nerves, and the movements of my bones. May it trace them like a pencil that sketches portraits. That it may bring them to you at this very moment is my present. That is your present. My present, right now, is the long-awaited moment. This moment. This letter contains it, like two hands holding water. And it shall resonate in the universe for it is my word to you. Continue reading →
Stepping into the new year, let’s take a short look back and see what was popular on our blog in 2011. The 12 best liked stories cover a wide range of topics both in research and university life, offering sort of a crosscut of the year.
This is a diary video by Rūta Petersonaitė, a fourth year student of publishing at Vilnius University, about her 2010/2011 semester in Tartu, Estonia. Continue reading →
Virve Vihman, adviser to the UT Rector on internationalisation, discusses the issues of language and identity through her own story of growing up as an Estonian-American in California. Continue reading →
Estonia, together with the Ukraine, Hungary and Israel are cultures that may be considered quite loose in terms of socially accepted behaviours and tolerance, shows a study in the Science magazine comparing 33 nations. Continue reading →Continue reading →
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