Kenneth Clark (1988) - Black doll, white doll

"You don't hate other human beings, if you have a strong sense of who you are." I think this is too much of a generalization. Hatred towards other human beings can be rooted out from so many different reasons. Still, thought this interview was worthy of attention.

What ethnicities do I get mistaken for

The subject was brought up by a friend of mine. Thought it was worth reflecting on.

What ethnicities do I usually get mistaken for?

1. By Europeans, I get mistaken for

-Japanese, Kazakh, Chinese, Spaniard, American, Brazilian, Central American, Bulgarian, Finnish(go figure on this one), half Italian(tuo padre e italiano?)

2. By North East Asians, I get mistaken for

-Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Australian(I don't know where this one comes from)


3. By Latin Americans, I get mistaken for

- Puerto Rican, Colombian, Venezuelan, Japanese, Italian

4. By Arabs, I get mistaken for

- South Asian (Singaporean, Malaysian)

5. By Africans, I get mistaken for
- South American, Japanese, Central Asian

6. By South Asians, I get mistaken for
- South American

7. By Americans, I get mistaken for

- South American, Pacific Islander, Native American

Why I am an abortion doctor

Ever wondered what would be the most nausiating yet honorable occupation in the world? Today when I asked myself this question, the first thing that came to my mind was - abortion doctor, an abortion provider.


After a little bit of googling, I found a very moving, gripping piece about what I consider to be the most gruesome, yet the most noble job in the world.

Here I present you 'Why I am an Abortion Doctor'.

Why I am an abortion doctor

Religions of former Yugoslavian countries

Slovenia - Catholic 57.8% Muslim 2.4%
Croatia - Roman Catholic 87.8% Orthodox 4.4%
Bosnia - Muslim 40%, Orthodox 31%, Roman Catholic 15%
Montenegro - Orthodox 74.2%, Muslim 17.7%, Catholic 3.5%
Serbia - Serbian Orthodox 85%, Catholic 5.5%
Macedonia - Macedonian orthodox 64.7%, Muslim 33.3%
Kosovo - Muslim, Serbian Orthodox, Roman Catholic (CIA - the world fact book does not show the persentages)

Gene linked to schizophrenia may reduce cancer risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119121442.htm

Top this! - Panacanthus cuspidatus

-YASUNI national park

Early Star Formation In The Universe Illuminated

Early Star Formation In The Universe Illuminated

Deadly scorpion provides safe pesticide

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111122649.htm


Humans.. we just can not leave things alone, can we?

Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100118091049.htm

My favorite part of this article:
"Using cadavers, the surgeons inserted a sling made of muscle fascia or implantable fabric around the eye. Small titanium screws secured the eyelid sling to the small bones of the eye. The sling was attached to a battery-operated artificial muscle. The artificial muscle device and battery were into a natural hollow or fossa at the temple to disguise its presence."

DAMN do I wish I had been there.



-Muscle Fascia

Oh MY! ME AMO!

I dedicate this song to myself. :)


OHHH MEU AMOR, VOU GRITAR PRA TUDO MUNDO OUVIR, VOU FALAR PRA TUDO MUNDO SABER, QUE O AMOR DA MINHA VIDA E VOCEEEEEE.



Hahahahaha speaking of narcissism.

Biochar(terra preta) as a modern weapon against global warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100113172252.htm

Biochar is charcoal created by the chemical decomposition of condensed substances(biomass, in this case) by heating, that occurs spontaneously at high enough temperatures called pyrolysis.

In Women, Caffeine May Protect Memory

In Women, Caffeine May Protect Memory

This is an interesting story that should be studied more.

Nitrogen and respiration rate in plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060126191418.htm

Thrombus

How he became the TOP MAN - step 1

"In prison for his part in the 1923 putsch, Hitler became convinced that the party could win power only through the ballot box. Electoral propaganda was at first primarily directed at industrial workers, in the hope of detaching them from the KPD. But the 1928 elections showed unexpected gains amongst the Protestant peasantry, who had suffered badly from the agricultural crisis. From then on Nazi propaganda was targeted at conservative voters, and Fascism. the Nazis won most of their votes from this source. Although the left posed less of a threat at this time than it had just after the war, the Nazis engaged in a campaign of intimidation against Socialists, Communists, and Catholics, thereby presenting themselves as the only force able to restore order. They simultaneously adopted an anti-establishment stance, portraying themselves as the real representatives of the people, and denouncing successive conservative governments as unrepresentative"

Does any of this ring a bell? You ain't gotz no time (or brain cells) to care? Indifference is irresponsible, lazy and selfish, unfunny fookers.

Laïcité

I just had a 4-hour-long discussion with my French friend on laïcité. It started as I asked her about Sarkozy's ban on burkas. I asked her how French people were reacting to this issue and as a young, free-spirited French girl she is, she said she wasn't much aware of this issue. Which made me conclude that the public's reaction is not as radical as that of, say, Massimo Tartaglia's, who knocked 2 teeth out of Berlusconi's mouth.

Then I asked her,

if she still sees female Muslim students at her university who cover their heads and to that she responded, "NO!! here it's not allowed to cover your head or show any religious symbols at schools!."

And THAT was the moment of intellectual enlightenment. As nerdy as I am, I will call that the laïcité moment.

What is "Laïcité"?

- THE STRICT SEPARATION OF STATE FROM CHURCH.
- RELIGION IS A PRIVATE AFFAIR.

*One of the demands of many supporters of the French Revolution in 1789 was to curb the power and influence of the Catholic Church and this began a gradual move towards a secular society. Reforms were introduced in the late 19th century to make French state education secular. Then in 1905 a new law declared France to be a secular country in which there was a strict separation between state and church.

Crucially, the notion of laïcité has broad backing across the political spectrum in France from the centre right to the centre left. Whenever there are debates about the role of religion in French society the division of church and state is widely asserted as one of the fundamental principles of French republicanism – and a principle to be defended.

This has been seen most recently in the debate about what pupils can wear to state schools. In the 1980s and 1990s there were a series of high profile cases involving female Muslim students expelled or excluded from school for wearing headscarves or the veil. After much political debate a controversial new law was passed in 2004 that outlawed the wearing of ‘conspicuous’ religious symbols in state schools. This was widely described as a ban on Muslim headscarves and veils though in fact the law does not refer to any particular items of clothing or symbols and applies to all faiths. Many Muslims in France were opposed to the law, feeling it was targeted at them. However others have supported the move saying that it ‘liberated’ young Muslim women.

source: Michael Streeter (cool fam name, dude), www.frenchentree.com


My thoughts on this issue.


How you dress can be a way to express your individuality. NO. You know what. I actually like this Laïcité. If it's actually your inside belief that is really significant, why do you feel the need to represent it superficially. Say I'm a homosexual athiest, should I go and shave my head and get tattoos to prove superficially that I don't give a flying fuck? Actually if I did that, my decision would be reactionary, thus not be based on the free will, which is the very thing I believe, athiests try to promote.
(of course, this is not the only reason why Muslim women wear hijabs but I'm talking about the ones who wear it to "represent" their belief system and this reason of "freedom of dress" is basically the only excuse Muslims can give to the French government to allow hijabs at schools. What else are you going to tell them? that the state should respect the religion? when it clearly states that it considers all religions to be private matters?)

Story behind Mussolini's foreign adventurism

1. To resolve economic problems -> conquest new territory
Expansion was justified by the Darwinian struggle between nations, and by the
need for Italy to find living space for surplus population.

2. The rise of Hitler made it possible for Italy, insufficiently strong on
its own, to revise the Versailles Treaty. At first Mussolini was wary of
German expansionism, for Italy included German-speaking
minorities which it was feared might come into Hitler’s sights
should he succeed in annexing Austria to the Reich. Soon, however,
it became clear that German military strength on the Continent was
so great that the only way to expand Italian power was in alliance
with Hitler and at the expense of British and French interests in the
Mediterranean and Africa.

3.Italian armies invaded Abyssinia(ethiopia) in 1935, fought on the side of Franco’s right-wing alliance in the Spanish Civil War in 1936–9, and occupied Albania in 1939. In the following year Italy participated in the invasion of France (just before the French surrender to Germany), and in 1941 invaded Greece and began an advance on Egypt.


Passmore - fascism


Porca vacca, I'm tired