Has between 25 and 34 years? Then probably still lives with his parents

The financial crisis has not been easy for young Europeans, as demonstrated by a study of Eurostat about citizens between 25 and 34 years who still live with their parents. According to the study, Portugal is the Sixth EU country with more young people of these ages living with parents â€" almost half of this population (44.5 percent).

This situation is even more visible in Slovakia (56.6 percent), Bulgaria (52.8 percent), Greece (51.6 percent), Malta (48.9%) and Italy (46.6 percent), countries which, arguably, have entered a wave of austerity that dramatically reduced the money available and the creation of jobs.

According to the Quartz, which published the data, there are two countries that are out of this trend â€" to Spain, with 37.2% and Ireland, with 22.6%, but there is a valid explanation. Many of the Spanish and Irish youths between 25 and 34 years emigrated in recent years, failing to count for this ranking. Thus, these percentages conceal a reality even harder.

In the Portuguese case, which also has been exporting manpower to various countries of North and Central Europe, Africa and South America, the situation is even more tragic. If 44.5% of young Portuguese still lives with his parents, even keeping in mind that thousands of them come out every day to other countries, how many will be those who can be financially independent?

The top 10 of the ranking is composed by Romania (44.4 percent), Slovenia (43.5 percent), Poland (43.4%) and Hungary (43 percent). The entire northern Europe is the last place of the list of Eurostat, which also makes sense.

See the complete list.

YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN 25 and 34 YEARS who STILL LIVE with THEIR PARENTS

1. Eslováquia â€" 56, 6a

2. Bulgária â€" 52, 8o

3. Grécia â€" 51, 6a

4. Malta â€" 48, 9c

5. Itália â€" 46, 6a

6. Portugal â€" 44, 5a

7. Roménia â€" 44, 4f

8. Eslovénia â€" 43, 5a

9. Polónia â€" 43, 4f

10. Nigeria â€" 43%

11. Spanish â€" 37, 2r

12. Letónia â€" 34, 5a

13.Republica Czech - 33.7%

14. ituânia â€" e, 5a

15. Chipre â€" 24, 1f

16. Luxemburgo â€" 24, 1f

17. Ireland â€" 22, 6a

18. Áustria â€" 21, 8o

19. Estónia â€" 20, 2r

20. Alemanha â€" 17, 3r

21. Bélgica â€" 16, 1r

22.Reino Kingdom - 14.4%

23. Suíça â€" 14, 4v

24. França â€" 1, 5a

25. slândia â€" 1, 2r

26. Holanda â€" 10, 6b

27. Noruega â€" 4, 2r

28. Suécia â€" 4, 1r

29. Finlândia â€" 4

30. Dinamarca â€" 1, 8o

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Bulgaria: ex-balneário Turkish bathroom turned into temporary Bookstore

By the end of the 20th century, this area of Plovdiv, in Bulgaria, was used as a dressing room Turkish bath â€" one of many of that region. With the closure of the facility, the Center for Contemporary Art of the city asked the Studio Studio 8 .5 to renovate the space and turn it into a temporary Bookstore.

The transformation is completely radical â€" can be bolder than this other Bookstore, in Ã"bidos-mainly due to stone and brick walls that give a chilly air to the interior of the building.

The reshuffle is part of the "urban dreams" festival of Bulgarian city and, as you can see, the space until it was quite nice. And even if the installation lasted only one week, the bookshop managed to join an "extraordinary collection of books, multimedia and videos by contemporary artists", explains the Inhabitat.

The idea of creating art centers or even temporary shops is not new, but can be a good way to remodel and renovate obsolete or abandoned spaces, so often forgotten in dense architectural fabric of the city.

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Hypotopia: an imaginary city that could be built with the ransom money from a bank

All over the world, national and local Governments have spent billions to rescue banks, real and not a country with Austria escaped the trend: the Austrian Government will have spent €19 billion to rescue the Bank Hypo Alpe Adria.

Several local activists tried to draw the attention of the ordinary citizen to the huge amount of money used to save the Bank and launched the Hypotopia project â€" the word Hypo comes from the Bank; TOPIA of utopia.

Headquartered in Vienna, these activists tried to figure out how this money could be used for other purposes â€" to build a city, for example. Thus, for four months, students from the Technical University of Vienna were invited to draw and create a model city in one of the Austrian capital's main squares, Karlsplatz, and so can the recognition of citizens

Called precisely Hypotopia, this model city could host 102,574 inhabitants and thus be the sixth largest Austrian city. "Hypotopia is more than an architectural design, is a protest," said Lukas Zeilbauer, engineering student.

According to The Guardian, the project was built from cinder blocks and wood and did not receive any type of public or private funding â€" why?

With a budget of €19 billion, the team of students might think big. They designed meticulously a city with industrial standards, dozens of businesses, buildings, power plants and even a transport network valued at €2,15 billion.

"We calculated the actual cost of everything. All cinder blocks and wood which you can see in the template is a building. We know how many people live where walk, the purpose of each building and how much would it cost to build per square foot, "explained Zeilbauer.

The only point on which Hypotopia isn't real is in omission of banks in its Constitution. The project was on display during the month of October, having been removed from the square with a protest March. Now, he will be one of the stars of the Vienna Art Biennale festival, in 2015, and ensure that students won't let him fall so soon.

"Our platforms are still accessible online. The fact that our showroom and physical model no longer available doesn't mean that our idea has died, "explained urban planner Manuel Oberaufner.

And in Portugal, how many cities would build with the débacle of our banking system?

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20 unusual friendships between animals

In November we published an article about the friendships more unsuspected of nature â€" animals that coexist daily peacefully, despite the difference of species, size, weight or even habitat.

This new gallery reinforces our thesis that friendship doesn't choose species: dogs and elephants, Lions, bears and tigers, cats and foxes, all coexist â€" sometimes! -in the middle of nature.

Sometimes it seems that is the man who's moved on this planet, with their destructive actions and almost always unexplained.

Keep the list of the most unusual friendships of nature, now seen by Bored Panda.

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Russia: online ad sells Gorilla trained to go to the bathroom

Thousands of wild animals and ivory articles are for sale in 16 countries by more than €8,8 million (US $ 27.6 million), according to a survey by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), published in the Guardian.

According to IFAW, the most profitable business remains the ivory, with 32.13% of the total value of the illegal trade, but on the internet you can buy good, rare frogs, Tigers, hummingbirds, bears, chimpanzees and a gorilla trained to use the bathroom.

The study â€" the largest ever on the subject â€" found 33,000 animals or items in 16 countries: China, Russia, Ukraine, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Kuwait, Poland, Netherlands, Belarus and Bahrain (in descending order of values requests).

Many online advertisers have already been identified and are being investigated by the police, according to The Guardian. "The poaching has reached worrying levels and cybercrime is now a wildlife threatened sinister and silent for the endangered species, which allows criminals to develop their business anonymously," said Azzedine Downes, Chairman and CEO of IFAW.

According to the entity, the wildlife-related crimes worth €15,3 million ($ 47.9 million) per year, i.e. This is the fourth most profitable illegal business in the world, after drug trafficking, smuggling and human trafficking.

"The trafficking of wildlife may seem a remote problem, but the internet leads him to the home of all", explained the English director of the IFAW, Philip Mansbridge.

The problem extends also to Portugal. In July 2013, Green Savers revealed that wild birds were being sold at the portal Portuguese OLX. The situation was denounced by a partner at SPEA (Portuguese society for the study of birds) and forwarded to the authorities.

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Scientists identify genes that enabled the domestication of the wild cat

Place a domestic cat alongside his direct ancestor, the Wildcat of the Near East, and it will only take a minute to identify the differences. The two animals have an approximate size and shape and resemble, obviously, the cats. But the Wildcat is fierce, while the domestic cat-thanks to almost 10,000 years of domestication-is gentle and adaptable enough to have become one of the most popular domestic animals.

Now, scientists have identified genetic changes that allowed this domestication. The discovery, based on a high-quality sequencing the genome of the cat, can open doors to further understand how other creatures, including humans, have become more tame over time.

Cats entered the human society about 9,500 years ago, not long after humans begin the first agricultural practices in the Middle East. Attracted by rodents that invaded the barns, the Wildcats have migrated from deserts to the villages. To mingle with humans, scientists suspect, cats began a process of auto-domesticação, where the more friendly benefited from human leftovers and protection.

In thousands of years, cats have decreased progressively in size, acquired a panoply of new colors and patterns of anti-social habits and lost hair from the past. The remaining domestic animals such as cows, pigs and dogs, have gone through similar transformations, although scientists still know very little about the genes involved in the evolution of these animals.

But on the evolution of the cat already know much. And the team of scientists led by Michael Montague, post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Washington, has identified some of the genes involved in the change. The investigation began in 2007 and the findings have now been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and identify 281 genes that show signs of rapid or numerous genetic changes, a brand of recent selection in domestic cats.

Some from 281 genes are involved with hearing and vision, while others are related to metabolic processes and an adaptation to a less carnivorous lifestyle. But one of the most intriguing findings emerged when the team has sequenced the genome of 22 domestic cats and bought with the genomes of two types of wild cats.

Investigators found at least 13 genes that have changed as the cats evolved from fierce to tame. Some of these genes are associated with cognition and behavior, including responses to the fear and the ability to learn new behaviors in Exchange for rewards.

"The findings are consistent with what we know about the domestication of cats," says Michael Montague. "The right moment had to become less fearful about the people and places new and incentives in the form of food have helped this adaptation," explains the researcher, cites the News From Science.

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SPV's campaign shows the various ways to separate the packaging waste

This Christmas, the company green dot shows the Portuguese the many ways of separating and recycling. Whether through the use of ecobags, reusing containers, boxes, or bags, colored according to the SPV, the most important thing is to get all the waste to the recycling bin. This is the main message of the campaign that the company green dot in this festive season debut in radio and press.

"The time we crossed is lavish in terms of waste generation. However, with the contribution of the entire population, there are ways to minimize the impact that these have on the environment, such as using recycled wrapping paper Christmas decorations and durable, not using dishes and disposable cutlery and, as expected, the separation and disposal of packaging waste in the proper recycling facility, namely the glassat this point the holidays, is widely used, "says Luis Veiga Malik, CEO of green dot Corporation.

The need to maintain awareness of recycling was one of the reasons that led the company green dot to launch this campaign at this time of year. Once used, the used packaging should be separated and transported to the nearest recycling facility using ecobags, colored or garbage bags, among others, reusable bags. The campaign draws attention to the many ways that exist to separate packages to contribute positively to the environment and to the creation of wealth for the Country.

In order to encourage domestic separation of used packaging, clarify the rules of recycling all that already separate and collect data on the habits and attitudes of recycling, Green Point society has, since December 2013, the mission to recycle, the largest awareness-raising initiative for the recycling of packaging ever held in Portugal.

By the end of 2014 already were visited 1.2 million homes. At the end of the action, in mid-2015, the mission will Recycle contacted 2 million households and equipped more than 340 thousand homes with domestic ecopontos. The action is coordinated with the municipalities and Municipal systems, providing the conditions to which an increasing number of Portuguese can separate their packaging waste if they are to be sent for recycling.

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