Many Serbs cannot pay their energy bills. This has been highlighted again by report in the media of massive backlogs in electricity payments. Serbs owe over EUR 187mn to the electricity companies, and many have no hope of paying their debts.
The desperation of may Serbs vis-a-vis energy is underlined in Mladen Djordjevic’s documentary about the [...]
This is a superb lecture by Hans Rosling a statistics lecturer showing the improvements in the world using his Gapminder website.
This is a MUST SEE lecture.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
From Time.com:
“Analyzing eight school shootings over the past decade, psychologist Bernardo Carducci and his team at Indiana University found that the young shooters in these incidents shared nearly all of 29 personality and behavior characteristics that Carducci categorizes as cynical shyness. This form, says Carducci, who directs the Shyness Research Institute, differs from normal shyness [...]
Photographer: Spencer Tunick
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From the New York Times:
The Morris water maze is the rodent equivalent of an I.Q. test: mice are placed in a tank filled with water dyed an opaque color. Beneath a small area of the surface is a platform, which the mice can’t see…those that blunder upon the platform climb onto it immediately.
Scientists have long [...]
The Belgrade Beer festival took a grim turn in the early hours of Sunday morning after a reveler fell into the bear enclosure at Belgrade zoo and was killed.
It is not clear how 22 year old Branko Jovanovića ended up in the enclosure, but he was found naked and mauled on Sunday morning.
Read more [...]
From Ad Buster via Bruce Sterling, come this fascinating news. Sao Paolo has been completely ad busted.
As the driving force behind the measure, mayor Kassab quelled the rebellion from the advertising industry with the help of key allies amongst the city’s elite. On many occasions, Kassab made the point that he has nothing against [...]
William B Swann, Jr reviews ”Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts” Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. xii + 292 pp. Harcourt, 2007. $25.
There are at least two kinds of deceptive statements. The more common and familiar type (”I did not have sexual relations with that [...]
Generally I try and stay away from stories moaning about Islamists western governments and institutions operating an appeasement strategy. It is old news and we know the problem well and there are many people doing a fine job of highlighting the maddness.
One story, however, caught my attention recently. It involved an episode of [...]
I photo from Polish photographer Gosia Barta.
This is one of her loveliest models, a Scarlett Johansson look-alike called Kamila Zmuda:
A stunning but NOT SAFE FOR WORK picture of her can be found after the jump…