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Puut ovat kasvaneet yhä suoremmin sekä metsissä että runoudessa 1970-luvulta alkaen. En ole suomalaisen luontorunouden tutkijana tästä yllättynyt. Tein pitkään töitä linturunouden parissa ja totuin DDT:n myrkyttämiin, pesäpuunsa menettäneisiin ja kaupungistuneisiin lintuihin. Bongasin runoudesta muutaman rengastetunkin linnun ja opin näkemään, … Continue reading →

“All knowledge begins with a question” Neil Postman  Today’s world is increasingly facing complex challenges, from Climate Change to Covid-19, and beyond. Historically, interdisciplinary research has served as an approach (not an end) to a problem that cannot be fully … Continue reading →

When writing this, my child is having a cold. Again. Once again, cancelled meetings. Again, a time reserved for concentrated reading and data collection is interrupted by wiping a runny nose and pleas to put Peppa Pig on. Peppa Pig … Continue reading →

The Sun, humanity’s personal star, is known by all of us. We all have embraced it’s warmth, enjoyed beautiful sunsets, or experienced a sunburn. Like everybody might have their own perspective on the Sun, my personal relationship is a particular … Continue reading →

This post is based on a talk given at the international online symposium Across Boundaries in Sciences. The event was hosted by All European Academics (ALLEA) and the Council of Finnish Academies on 5 May 2021. The program, talks and more detailed … Continue reading →

I have been invaded, I am under siege. There was one of them first. A fast-moving, black spot on the kitchen counter. Then two, three, twenty, three hundred. Moving forward, swaying lines. The man from the management company looking after … Continue reading →

In Emily St. John Mandel’s science fiction novel Station Eleven, a nomadic group of actors and musicians travels through North America devastated by a lethal pandemic, ”Georgia flu”. The troupe performs William Shakespeare’s plays, which have found new appeal in … Continue reading →

Dr Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir Collegium Researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science and Visiting Fellow in the European Institute at the LSE The Covid-19 pandemic has had a dramatic … Continue reading →

We are about to reach the milestone of one year living under the exceptional conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Finland, the society has fared well in terms of the disease statistics compared to many other countries all over … Continue reading →