Unless you’re Dexter (i.e. the sociopath serial killer) you feel emotion when watching images. I’m sure that you experienced at hundreds of times strong emotions when watching maybe family photos, scenery, war photos and so on. For me, the image below gets me everytime:
![The 'Tank man' in Tianasquare [...]
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I was around ten years old when I received one of my first portable game devices. It was rectangular, had a small screen, a few buttons and on its back the shape was curved a bit just to allow your fingers to fit in there and hold the device better. There […]
‘Ophiocordyceps unilateralis’ feels like the name of a dinosaur species. Yet it’s the name of a parasitic fungus that in short transforms ants into zombie ants. You heard it right, this is one of the first recognized cases of zombie-like behavior in animals. An unknowingly ant inhales the spores of this […]
Easter eggs are eggs (duh!) often dyed and painted that are given during the traditional Easter celebration. As Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from his tomb, Easter eggs are a symbol of a tombstone which is ‘lifted’ and life emerges (i.e. the chick) – that’s the reasoning they’ve been used […]
Eat healthy, exercise daily, reduce stress and sleep well. These are the four pillars of living a balanced life that reduces your risk for cancer, heart disease or any of the other hundreds of diseases caused by extra-weight or stress.
What you eat and drink influence your weight, a ‘parameter’ that is […]
I was a little over 18 when I signed up for my exam to take the driver license. The theory went well and the next step was the psychological evaluation. I thought it was going to be a boring experience but it was actually a very pleasant evaluation, I basically played […]
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’. […]
