Victoria's blog

  This Friday on 14th the October well-known Van Gogh’s „Sunflowers” have been attacked by Just Stop Oil activists with tomato soup. The Stop oil group lately have been trying to gain attention by sit-down protests on roads or by glueing themselfs to paintings, but only by throwing Heinz tomato soup at one of the most famous images has helped them achieve that goal. The activists claim that they are doing it to „ensure that the government commits to ending all new licenses and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK." Honestly, at first when I heard the news I was shocked and concerned for this beautiful piece of art and I wanted to know why it happened, but basically it means that this demonstration was (in my opinion) a pretty successful one. Mostly because It got loads of attention on a topic, which I’m pretty sure not many people had cared much about before, all while not hurting anyone and making only reversible damages on the painti...

Lately, we don’t talk about Covid as much as we used to, but obviously it hasn’t magically disappeared and apparently it’s still affecting many people even after the coronavirus leaves their body and it’s been named „long covid”. We don’t exactly know numbers of people with this condition, but WHO claims that there’s a tendency for women and patients with severe covid cases to develop long-term health issues. And right now we’re in need of actions like: more studies and data on long covid cases, that then can be used to find treatments, as well as policies from the government and investing in health system and lastly of course we need to encourage people to get vaccinated. The way I see it is that long covid is a common as well as a very serious condition, that isn’t addressed enough. Personally, I had no idea, that it can be that severe and long-lasting. I guess many people with myself included thought, that Covid is just a virus, that has heavy impacts on humans body for maximum of 2...

 More than 3 decades ago in Ukraine there was an accident of the biggest release of radioactive material- Charnobyl nuclear reactor disaster. Now, Charnobyl is mainly occupied with animals, that are a subject of many researches. In 2016 scientists have observed that a specie of tree frogs- naturally occurring in bright green colour- started having a black tint. What’s more surprising, the closer they got to the most polluted area of Charnobyl, the frogs looked darker or even pitch black. As we find out, animals within only 30 years already started adapting to such habitat and in consequence, frogs were born with more melanin. From this observation scientist found new melanin function- absorbing and dissipating parts of the harmful radiation energy. Some time ago, when I first heard about what happened in Charnobyl I was pretty much terrified of human tendency to destroy everything around us. It was scary just to think about the future of those animals, but after reading this articl...