…back from magnificent Istria 1 …normal blogging to resume from tomorrow….Look out for the Istria report soon.
Istria is a region of Croatia. It is absolutely gorgeous and the locals are utterly charming ↩
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Mladin Kovacevic
“Who the hell is Miladin Kovacevic,” you might ask, “A war criminal?”
Not quite, he is a Serb college basketball player involved in the horrific beating of a fellow student in a New York State town who was then helped to escape the USA and return to Serbia by a Serbian diplomat.
The US government is [...]
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Experts unveil ‘cloak of silence’
(tags: audio engineering future physics Sound technology science)
Religious communities are driven by sexual advantages | behaviour and intelligence news at abelard.org
“Religious attendance in the contemporary United States is to support a high-fertility, monogamous mating strategy”
(tags: evolution evolutionary_psychology religion sexuality sex)
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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]
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Tagged Crime, Education, Hotties, Long Emergency, Maps, Race & Ethnicity, Terrorism
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We have heard about shills lurking in forums, studios bribing bloggers to write praising movie reviews and astroturfing campaigns (or anti-Astroturfing campaigns) as part of the emerging story of PR and reputation management in the Internet era.
Now it seems there is a growing number of PR companies devoted to monitoring influential forums and having [...]
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Images of otherness hinder integration in the Balkans - Ian Bancroft
Representations of post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina which reiterate ‘otherness’ undermine progress and the prospect of EU membership
(tags: Bosnia Serbia balkans politics)
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Originally posted at The Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
BELGRADE — International Refugee Day is being marked today, with Serbia home to some 100,000 refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, the highest figure in Europe.
There are about 75 collective refugee centers in Serbia sheltering some 6,000 people, while the rest live in private accommodation or with [...]
NewsDaily: Survey suggests research misconduct is common
Research misconduct at U.S. institutions may be more common than previously suspected, with 9 percent of scientists saying in a new survey that they personally had seen fabrication, falsification or plagiarism.
(tags: ethics scepticism Critical_Thinking philosophy science research)
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Whole Earth Catalog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the greatest publications of all time
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Beware the Alchemists - Ludwig von Mises - Mises Institute
Ludwig von Mises major work on Inflation, considered by many to be a classic.
(tags: economics economy capitalism interesting_people)
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Female chimps keep sex life quiet (ABC News in Science)
Female chimpanzees are hungry for sex, but keep their mouths shut about it to boost their chances of luring the top chimps, according to a British study.
(tags: evolutionary_psychology evolution science zoology primatology)
Healthy lifestyle turns off genes that cause cancer - health - New Scientist
It’s no [...]
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