January 19, 2026 – The INSIDER

2026 or 2018?

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While most countries entered 2026 as December 31st ended, Ethiopia instead stayed in the year 2018. This East African country with a population of over 137 million seems to be seven years behind the rest of the world. Its current year is just one of the many examples of its uniqueness. Ethiopia doesn’t follow the Gregorian calendar that most other cultures use. For them, the birth ofJesus is set to 7 AC which is why they live in 2018. Ethiopians celebrate the new year on September 11th. These differences occur…

News

Venezuela: a Case Study of Modern Interventionism

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Aggressive tariffs, intervention in the Middle East, ambitions of territorial expansion; ever since the Trump administration regained power a year ago, it has kept making bolder and more aggressive moves on the global checkerboard. Nowhere has this new era of American interventionism been more evident than in the theatrical regime change that occurred in Venezuela during the night of January 3rd, where the country’s head of state, President Nicolàs Maduro, was abducted by U.S. forces from his home. The Venezuelan leader is now awaiting trial in New York, where he…

Advice Column

Are You Still Watching? Second Screen Viewing and the Attention Economy

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Let’s face it: attention is one of the most valuable resources that companies are honing in on. The world is constantly drowning in entertainment and information at every corner, so it makes sense that people are finding it more and more difficult to concentrate on a single task. As screens take over our lives, there seems to be some sort of hierarchy establishing itself. Cell phones are rising to the top while television is slowly sinking to the bottom. Why is that? Second Screen Viewing “Second Screen Viewing” is the…

Horoscopes

The Chinese Zodiac

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Lunar New Year It’s January which means it’s officially 2026, happy new year to all. This also means, in many western cultures, that the horoscopes begin again with Capricorn, the earth sign symbolized by a sea-goat. However, in many oriental cultures, it is not yet the new year: many follow the lunisolar calendar and, therefore, their new year begins during the month of February. This also impacts their beliefs and traditions. A very popular and world-shared worship is that of the zodiacs (as we’ve seen with our own horoscopes), today…

Historical Days

January 27th:

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Holocaust Rememberance Day Why did the Holocaust happen? A holocaust such as the one known with a capital H does not happen overnight. Instead, I’d say that this is a perfect example of the boiling frog phenomenon. First came Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 that popularized eugenics. Darwin presented the theory of Darwinism: organisms will adapt to their environment so that, in the end, only the traits most suitable for life and survival will remain. The theory was then grossly oversimplified and…

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