InGlobo – issue 89

IN THIS ISSUE:
Vietnam
The First Miss Bulgaria
The Architect Who Inspired the Squid Game
Magnificent Venetian Villas
Jane Austen
A Cure for Alzheimer’s?
The Great Women of Ancient Rome
Real Places in Science Fiction
Repairing Ceramics with Gold
Crete
Healthy Stressed Vegetables

The issue appropriately marks the most feminine month with several articles about beautiful, rebellious and influential women. Among them is the first Miss Bulgaria, Lyuba Yotsova, who was chosen as the most beautiful in 1929. Writer Jane Austen has long been described as an exemplary, meek Victorian lady, but it turns out that she was actually quite rebellious, unrecognizable by limitations, and gifted with good business acumen when it came to her own work. The material about women in the Roman Empire also shatters myths. In it, we tell the stories of four influential ladies who achieved recognition and authority in the male-dominated ancient Roman society.

Recognition, albeit belated, was also received by the architect Ricardo Bofill, who designed utopian buildings such as the “Red Wall”, but his greatest popularity was brought to him by… the series Squid Game, whose style was strongly influenced by his work. Cinema generally has the ability to make some of the most beautiful corners of the planet world-famous. That’s why in this issue we present several extraordinary places that have served as natural settings for fantastic and fantasy films.

We haven’t included locations in Vietnam in the selection, but the reason is that we have a whole separate travelogue for this fantastic country. We travel there by all kinds of transport, including motorbikes on mountain serpentines, but we also have a river trip in the issue – along the Brenta River from Padua to Venice. Along the way, we admire the magnificent villas left over from the Venetian Republic. The Venetians once ruled territories throughout the Mediterranean, including Crete, where their presence is still felt, as you will learn from the material about the island.

We also go to Japan to enjoy the kintsugi technique, in which broken ceramic vessels are repaired with gold. Their cracks are left visible not only for aesthetic reasons, but also to remind us that we should not pursue perfectionism, but to accept even our wounds, because they make us more complete. Proof of this truth are so-called stressed vegetables. Their appearance is far from ideal because they have experienced drought, heat, cold or pest attack, but this has made them even stronger and… useful to us.

We all know that good food is key to our health. It turns out that this is true even for Alzheimer’s disease. A growing body of research shows that lifestyle changes, including a healthy diet, can help slow the progression of the disease.