Geography has always been my Achilles’ heel, a weak spot in my general knowledge mainly due to the fact that I skipped a lot of geography lessons in school to prepare for Math and/or Physics competitions. And today was one of those days where I was dumbfounded on how little did […]
I recently returned from a 2-week vacation in Turkey and prior to that (about one month before leaving) I thought to myself why not try to learn a bit the language. So, with the help of an audio book (the learn-in-your-car type) I followed almost 20 one-hour lessons to learn Turkish. […]
Sometime in the 9th century Russia was ‘hit’ by a game that would become one of the most popular games in the modern world. It was a game of wit where 2 players moved pieces on a board in a turn-based scenario. That game was called chess and it is to […]
Back when I was a teenager we didn’t have much online socializing to do, ‘mainly’ because there was no Internet on a broad scale. So we socialized outside playing, in school, in camps and all sort of enjoyable activities. It was popular back then to have your own personal ‘offline blog’. […]
Cookies, those flour-based sweet little cakes you can hold in your hands and enjoy at any event, weren’t meant to be what they are today. It’s supposed that they were first discovered by Persians in the 7th century, one of the first nations to cultivate sugar. But they were created as […]
A deadly virus is killing annually tens of thousands worldwide, teens especially. Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park estimates that this virus is responsible for more than 3,000 teen deaths and 300,000 serious injuries in US alone.
In 1985 Nintendo released Super Mario Bros, a game that would become world’s second most popular game of all times (to date, on the first place being Wii Sports). It was a sequel where 2 brothers, Mario and Luigi, traveled through the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from the evil […]
When I was 11 I became friends with one of the colleagues in the new class I was transferred. Andrei (that was his name), was 3 years older and struggling to advance in school, but learning just wasn’t his thing. So that’s one of the reasons we became friends, I helped […]
In May 1980 at the popular horse race ‘Irish 2,000 Guineas’ a jockey by the name of Christy Roche won with the help of his horse Nikoli. Three months later Maki Kaji, a Japanese entrepreneur fond of horse-racing, started Nikoli (nikori) Co., Ltd., a company that would start publishing without interruption the […]
I believe I was in my 4th grade when I first read Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula. To my surprise Dracula was from Romania, my own country, and I had a mixed feeling between fear and proud. It was soon after that I learned in history lessons about Vlad Tepes, one of […]
