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Why People Don’t Acknowledge You
Our lives are nothing but relationships. Babies can’t live when they’re not loved, and we can’t make ourselves happy all the time. Life is about you and I, and our interactions. This is when Leon F....
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THE FLINCH by Julien Smith
There’s this place near my house—a boxing gym called Hard Knox. Any day you want, you can go there, sit down, and watch people fight. The sign above the door says “VIP ENTRANCE,” because anyone who...
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THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD by Alice Miller
From the same city where Austrian-Israelian philosopher Martin Buber, Polish writer Stanisław Lem and the inventor of the first bulletproof vest Kazimierz Żegleń are from, Lviv seems like the right...
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How Much Success Do You Actually Need?
In 1986, the term ‘work-life-balance’ was first used in the US. Three years earlier, Workaholics Anonymous had already been founded. But mind you, workaholism is not the same as working hard. How? It’s...
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Why I Love Studying Political Science
My job and interest require me to read a lot on Iraq. As the 10th anniversary of the war came and went, concluding, apologetic and criticising articles, essays, opinions and...
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Why You Should Listen To Stupid Ideas
There is a man that haunted, crippled and talked me down for years and his name is Earl Keith Miller. He is a successful cognitive neuroscientist who studied at Princeton University and taught at MIT...
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Poison Penmanship and Politics: Twitter and The Armchair Activist
The ever growing number of online freedom fighters has been an issue since the advent of the notorious Kony campaign by Invisible Children. At first impression, you must be wondering why it would even...
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MODERN ARAB THOUGHT by Raif Khuri
The Arab Spring of 2011 is not the first such upswing to grip the Arab world. It revived the hopes associated with the Arab world’s first grand revolution. While in the 18th century, the Enlightenment...
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SORRY STATES by Jennifer Lind
I apologize to all those who suffered from crimes committed in the name of the Serb people. However, the Serb people did not commit these crimes but rather criminal individuals. It is impossible to...
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Hamas TV Children’s Show Encourages Killing of Jews
Laurel Holliday, in her 1999 book CHILDREN OF ISRAEL/PALESTINE, wrote that two “ethnically distinct peoples – both Palestinians and Israeli Jews – lay claim to the very same sand, stone, rivers,...
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Do you know Albert Camo?
Today I only have one anecdote to share with you. If you’d ask me, I’d say it’s about false pride and arrogance. ‘Do you know Albert Camo?‘, Kamo asks around, his eyes wide open. All, except me, give...
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Why People Don’t Acknowledge You
Our lives are nothing but relationships. Babies can’t live when they’re not loved, and we can’t make ourselves happy all the time. Life is about you and I, and our interactions. This is when Leon F....
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Instagram & Wars
Like David Cameron, I want ISIS to be squeezed out of existence. But media is making it difficult. The on-going war between the Kurdish forces and ISIS is not just an offline one – it is there for...
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How to spot a fake expert
I have been pretty busy reading Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow‘ from 2011. Guy got a Nobel Prize in Economics for this. He’s a psychologist – so, him winning in that category is pretty...
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