Recently, I became reacquainted with Oblio as a friend on Facebook shared Liviu Mihaiu’s post that suggested a viewing of that famous little movie with Romanian subtitles. Read more »
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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Rudyard Kipling, jingoism and Victorian ideals
If by Rudyard Kipling was one of my favourite poems in my childhood. Since then, my views have changed. It seems that the story behind the poem is not all that compelling. Read more »
Donald E Cameron and the German Collective Guilt
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Most people who travel extensively through Europe will inevitably come to the conclusion that most German people they meet seem to still feel, five decades post-Holocaust, a sense of collective guilt for their parents’ and grandparents’ crimes. I always wondered where is that coming from. Read more »
Extremophiles–Gaia’s seeds
The wide discovery and acceptance of the existence of extremophiles of the last decade is opening the gate for a wider acceptance of the idea that life can travel through cosmos and can be found on other planets, in conditions we previously thought inhospitable and not conducive to life. Read more »
Cuchet Cave and Radon Gas
There is a relatively recently discovered cave in France that has some astounding prehistoric paintings on its walls, most likely the oldest in the world. It also has, as most caves, a high concentration of the toxic Radon gas. Read more »
Joseph Campbell is smiling
To offer a synthetic view of world myths might be an even more daunting task than to do the same with the world religions. Yet our hero has managed to do just that. We take a quick look at his legacy. Read more »
Amiri vs USA or Narseh vs Rome
The latest round of spy stories - more specifically, the Iranian nuclear scientist who oscillated between being abducted and being a defector - reminds me of an old episode from the Roman - Persian war. Read more »
70s wizards: Herbie Hancock, Bill Withers, MOD MID
There were some truly amazing pearls in the generally annoying rubble as I like to call the musical landscape of those times. Yet I find myself inexorably attracted to it, partly because my parents were back then not only alive but young. And Herbie Hancock & Bill Withers, these not-known-well-enough giants, stand up. Read more »
RIP JD Salinger
It is extremely difficult to pay your respects to an author whose book you haven't read. None of us has read catcher in the rye
End of history: Hegel, Kojeve, Marx and Fukuyama
A very recent debate hosted by TVO reminded me of Fukuyama’s famous essay. The plan is to summarize it and eventually discuss it. Read more »
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