Too bad, the parfume industry does not have to pay royalties to the writers. This would really improve the financial situation of many authors. Salman Rushie “Shalimar the Clown” Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis” James Joyce “Ulysses Jose Lezama Lima “Paradiso” Karl Marx “Manifest of the Communist Party” Ray Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451″ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this… (more…)
“The universe does not always plays a fair game. But at least it shows an incredible sense of humor.” Carrie Bradshaw, SATC 3/17 Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Despite giving a very activists impression to the people around me, the last month passed through my fingers like the sand of a oceans dune. After giving lectures at the university on cancer and on stem cells, and after hosting the annual meeting of a joint European research project, after having published 2 new papers in biomedical journals and negotiated… (more…)
Today it is pretty easy, for sure, to be branded as an abusive person. If you critizise another peoples political, religious etc. ideas (in particular if you make a few points that are irrefutable, they call you abusive. If you question the hypocrazy of any religion or other dogma (such as gender equality or green political correctness) you suddenly find… (more…)
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Confronted with a huge wave of political refugees from countries shattered with war and terror in the Middle East, many here in the West express their unease with immigration of people who have a different ethnic, cultural and especially religious background. It is in 90% of the European population a fixed idea, that terror by the so-called “Islamic State” or… (more…)
The video is of a friend of mine who enjoys a calm afternoon in the Iranian desert. I was not there at the same time, but I played the music later on. Enjoy ! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
For all of those who missed the geography lesson about South – Eastern Europe in school: Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria. Bulgaria has boarders to Serbia and Mazedonia (in the West), to Greece and Turkey (in the South), to Romania (in the North), and it has a nice long coast-line along the Black Sea (in the East). The Balkan… (more…)
I have to make a confession: I like both the few Sharon Stones of this world and the many burka girls. Therefore I was extremely pleased to see at Munich Airport today this rare example who has them both: a Burka, and a Basic Instinct underneath it. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share… (more…)