I have had weird dreams last night. About a future Greece where people didn’t use Greek anymore. About a river that became a sea with waves so high that they swallowed airplanes. Scary. I haven’t even seen 2012. But I am so worried about so many things it seems… A little while ago I heard about a movie called Confessions of an Economic Hit Man ( Read more... )

Because when you have demonstrations, you can't actually tell the looters and the hooligans that they are not invited...
Because the words about the vastness and beauty of the world are really beautiful, but they need an example...


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This is a draft that I used for my presentation for the Child and Adolescent development class. Lol, the professor always seems to like my presentations no matter how incomplete they are. Anyway. Because I had said that I would post a few essays. It's about nuclear family, compared with extended family and some thoughts about the issue.

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Some days ago I started my research on interfaith dialogue and what has been done so far. I knew there were some books written by Muslims trying to explain the troubles with Islam and to support more freedom in the faith. My first encounter was with a text about a  woman called Irshad Manji who has written a book entitled "The Trouble with Islam: A ( Read more... )

This got me worried today: I listened to the radio that some people in France want to segregate schools according to gender again. European Union directive no longer obliges the mixing, so they want to take advantage of that. Maybe the new law proposed will only be applied to physical education.
If they create just a few segregated schools, then ( Read more... )

Second entry for today! I was just listening at the radio about a new research examining the effect of money on happiness. It could be the sequel of one of my previous entries and it has nothing to do with what Tat-chan had said back in 2006, that he values money most of all. :p
It seems that yes, money can bring happiness. Of course, I say. Money ( Read more... )

Female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests. Hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers guarded by larger males. New research shows that even affluent college students who don't need resources will still attempt to trade sexual currency for provisions, said Daniel Kruger, research scientist at the ( Read more... )

While I was preparing my presentation about the Arab and Japanese views on masculinity, I came across an article about the view Japanese have of the Arab culture. I wanted to post about it earlier but I only decided to do it now :D It is a review of the book 'The Arabs: A Japanese Point of View' by Japanese researcher Nobuaki Notohara. And it was ( Read more... )

The number of bullying cases acknowledged by Japanese elementary, junior high and high schools jumped by 6.2 times to 124,898 in fiscal 2006 that ended in March this year, an education ministry survey showed Thursday.
The huge year-on-year increase is mainly attributed to the ministry's policy change over the survey, which has come to place more ( Read more... )

Today's news, from Kathimerini again
There has been a prediction of reduced oil demand and as a consequence the prices are falling also.

Θεαματική πτώση του πετρελαίου μετά την πρόβλεψη της IEA για μείωση της ζήτησης

It is not explained how exactly people plan to replace oil, but if this means an increased used of alternative power sources, this is ( Read more... )