Tag: GenZ

When it was born on the 26th of September, the pygmy marmoset baby was small as a fingernail. The employees at the Skopje Zoo said then that it is so small that it cannot even be seen on camera. Now it has grown enough to hold on to its parents, "groom" their furs and to pose in front...

Two days after Meta.mk's published its interview with the 16-year-old Mia Chichkarikj which suffers from juvenile diabetes Type 1, Venko Filipche, the health minister of North Macedonia announced acquisition of 'painless' glucose monitors. That was what Mia had requested in the interview when she stated that the greatest wish she has was for all the children in North Macedonia...

Mia Chichkarikj is 16-years old third-year student in the Orce Nikolov Gymnasium in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. What makes this young girl a true fighter is that every day for the past 10 years, she has been facing the challenges that Type 1 juvenile diabetes has thrown at her. No other medicine can help her but insulin...

The dross produced in the process of melting scrap iron in the "Makstil" smelter in Skopje, North Macedonia, will be used as material for subbases of new roads and streets and as partial substitute for cement in the production of concrete blocks. This innovation which was presented in the industrial complex “Makstil” yesterday to Fatmir Bytyqi, the Deputy Prime minister...

This year, the Skopje landfill Drisla will receive an autoclave, or a machine for treatment of the medical waste, but also an air quality measurement station. The landfill received €800,000 in an IPA project for the recycling of construction waste. But the projects for secondary waste selection, treatment of industrial waste and the waste sorting and packaging plant, which...

We will browse through a few platform video games that could keep your attention, some of whom were chosen as the best in the genre, most of them are relatively newer games, but that truly doesn't matter when it comes to platform video games, because even the oldest "platformers" are played to date, such as the Super Mario games...

From today, September 21st to September 25th, you can try out the three new announced elite specializations for Revenant, Warrior and Elementalist, that is, Vindicator, Bladesworn and Catalyst. All you need is a Guild Wars 2 account, if you don't have one you can make a free account and start the game immediately. On the 21st of September 3...

Even though the air pollution in North Macedonia is a hot topic, the investments in air protection are scarce. Last year, around €8 million were registered as expenditures and investments in air quality protection, show the latest data provided by the State Statistical Office (SSO). The industry and the specialized producers throughout the country have invested in MKD 124,558,000...

Nioh the Complete Edition, a game that normallt sells for €50, is given  for free by Epic Games until the 16th of September (Thursday). And also this is one of the hardest games in the Souls like genre.   Although the story itself is fiction, the main character is based on the first western samurai William Adams that really existed. Another...

Black Desert Online Remastered is one of the graphically most stunning games on the market, which you can try out with the 7 day free trial or buy it directly from Steam for only €10. The combat in Black Desert is so well made that none of the MMO’s doesn't come close in that direction. Whichever class you pick,...

Ever since the first Need For Speed games showed up, they were a phenomenon. You could instantly tell that they stand out from other car racing games. The biggest popularity was in the time of Need For Speed Underground 2 in the late 90ies and soon after that almost at the same time The Fast and the Furious movie...

For those who love Diablo 2 and have played it over and over a number of times, Diablo 2 Resurrected is “the cream of the cake”. It is the same game but with very enhanced graphics that looks like a new original but still has the charm of a Diablo game.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DttPBtsZ5fc The story animations are worked over to the level...

The beta testing of the newest expansion of Guild Wars 2 called End of Dragons is under way. Each player has three new beta slots for characters (that will be totally deleted when the testing is over and also the progress will not be saved) to try out the three newest specializations for Mesmer, Necro and Guardian. The event...

Star Citizen is more of a space travel simulation than an ordinary game. The impressive graphics it has surpasses all other games about space. The developer Cloud Imperium Games has been working on the game for years and they recently published two videos about the development of the game and an offer for trying out the game for free...

This interview by Violeta Jonchevska originally appeared on Global Voices on July 28, 2021. It is republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license.   Uta Ibrahimi, an alpinist from Kosovo, is the first ethnic Albanian woman to climb Mount Everest, which she did on 22 May 2017. Afterwards, she climbed Manaslu, Cho-Oyu, Lhotse and Gasherbrum, making her officially the first woman from the Balkans to summit five peaks taller than 8000...

The newest game from the “universe” of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien that will come out soon is "Gollum" - The Lord of the Rings™: Gollum™ on Steam (steampowered.com). There were also announcements for a totally new MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Game), which alike the announced TV series, would be set in the Second Age of Middle Earth, i.e. much...

During the coronavirus crisis, some young people in North Macedonia saw the opportunity to start their own businesses or to adapt their existing businesses to the new normal that was imposed by the restrictive measures against the coronavirus. The stories that were told to Meta.mk by Teona Mango, Goran Bakrevski and Darko Milevski, entrepreneurs from Bitola, are a shining example...

What to choose, a gymnasium or vocational-technical high school Not so long ago, the majority of 9th-grade primary school students in North Macedonia were choosing to continue their secondary education in a gymnasium instead of opting for vocational-technical schools. Now, only 4 days after the start of the high school enrollment, it is obvious that the things are slowly...

Limited physical contacts, new ways of socialization, online learning, fear, and uncertainty about the future... These are some of the challenges that the young people have faced during the global COVID-19 crisis. For some, it meant more time for themselves, but for others, it meant difficult everyday life. Individually, each of the young people accepted the world health crisis...

Empty amphitheaters, empty student dormitories - the pandemic has emptied the locations where students used to live, study and socialize. During last year, the lectures and the exams took place at home and the new conditions for studying additionally stressed the problems that the students faced even before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, several events marked the...