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Posted: November 13th, 2017, 12:34am UTC
Source: xkcd (Richard Dawkins payed homage to the quote at the bottom in on of his interviews)
It is a common "gripe" you hear quite often around ...
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Posted: September 15th, 2017, 7:21pm UTC
The School of Athens (fresco): at the center is Plato (in orange) pointing upward while Aristotle (in blue) to his left is pointing forward (possibly an indication ...
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Posted: September 1st, 2015, 8:22pm UTC
The T-850 model from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The previous post discussed the relationship between technology and society, and concluded that it is much more ...
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Posted: May 25th, 2015, 12:55am UTC
Hephaestus (Vulcan) the Greek god of what we can today refer to as technology
We live in a time where not many days pass before we are reminded of ...
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Posted: October 14th, 2014, 11:41pm UTC
A few years ago I wrote an article about how Muslims in Jordan have some unjustified demeaning views of their Christian compatriots. Lately however, I started thinking that the recent events in Iraq's ...
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Posted: February 12th, 2014, 4:47pm UTC
"Nature And Nature's LawsLay Hid in NightGod Said Let Newton Darwin BeAnd All Was Light"
Two years ago, Darwin's day was celebrated here with a blog commemorating his qualities ...
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Posted: December 6th, 2013, 3:59am UTC
A snapshot taken from the video of Mashrou Leila's recent song "للوطن" (for the homeland), which features an Arab transsexual belly dancer...
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Posted: September 24th, 2013, 5:00am UTC
"Perseus Confronting Phineus with the Head of Medusa" by Sebastiano Ricci
It is said that the ancient Greeks were in the habit of remembering historical developments ...
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Posted: June 26th, 2012, 5:44am UTC
One day, on a certain occasion, a friend stated confidently but ruefully that scientists don't like Plato. Will, by and large, they don't like dogma, and Plato just happens to be a byword for dogmatism, partly ...
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Posted: May 6th, 2012, 4:45am UTC
- Criticism is a word that too many people cringe at hearing, even though they themselves would rarely hesitate in commending, confusedly, the act of critical thinking. I remember reading a blog in which its editor ...
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Posted: April 10th, 2012, 1:31am UTC
It is safe to say that the Palestinian cause has never had its own functional and independent intelligentsia or academia, as their members have always been either co-opted to endow ...
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 5:15pm UTC
It is probably a mild hyperbole saying that almost any of the several pieces of Darwin’s writings that I came across were radiating with an overwhelming intellectual presence, ...
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Posted: December 19th, 2011, 3:20am UTC
There is no denying that all modern cities are morbid to one degree or another, but morbidity is of a particularly “fine” and ancient pedigree in the case of Amman.
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Posted: November 28th, 2011, 6:08am UTC
As is his wont, a friend once surprised me with a most mundane remark and not before long induced from it an intuitive and practical generalization, which he put forward ...
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Posted: October 9th, 2011, 1:18am UTC
Few Fridays ago, early in the morning, I received an SMS from my science apotheosizing dear friend, conveying news to the effect that the light speed barrier was shattered at the CERN. That was ...
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Posted: September 6th, 2011, 5:14am UTC
There is a subtler aspect of our Jordanian notion of honor, through which it proves yet another time how distorted it is, and through which also, and most importantly, it ...
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Posted: August 12th, 2011, 8:59pm UTC
Five days following that Fuheis-mania incident, I was spotted and subsequently accosted by two of my friends in Rabieh. At first, I expended no effort to hide my irritation by that, which I could tell made them ...
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Posted: July 31st, 2011, 11:45pm UTC
Life is getting pretty much hectic and fun is becoming an elusive quarry. That would be a sufficient description of how I have been feeling lately. It is, ...
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Posted: July 15th, 2011, 9:23pm UTC
I use, and not surf, as "surfing the internet" should be dropped out of the internet experience lexicon. It is nothing but the outdated legacy of web 1.0, when the ...
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Posted: June 19th, 2011, 1:48pm UTC
I read this book a year ago and for some reason I liked it, and so withheld, hitherto, from writing about a major flaw in the method it heavily relies ...
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Posted: June 7th, 2011, 2:06am UTC
After some reading and, then, contemplation of extended and condensed lectures and treatise on the nature of humanity and civil societies, one is likely to come up with the conclusion ...
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Posted: May 13th, 2011, 4:31am UTC
It is not a secret that these modern times are characterized by radical shifts in every conceivable aspect of our lives, which are undermining, or bringing under scrutiny many of ...
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Posted: May 8th, 2011, 2:56am UTC
In what seems like a pleasant coincidence, I recently stumbled upon a rare remark made by Edward Said on the American culture, where he laments its "moralization of reductiveness".
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Posted: April 25th, 2011, 12:02am UTC
Among the various voices I came across about the preparedness, or lack of it, of Jordan to join the league of democratic nations, there was this one somewhat valid opinion, ...
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Posted: April 15th, 2011, 5:57pm UTC
Yesterday was my birthday, and my blog's second blogoversary. When I started, the blog was an extension to my life offline, but still away from it. Not anymore though. Now, ...
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Posted: March 28th, 2011, 2:51am UTC
What happened last Friday was a shock no doubt, and I do understand the drama that followed, even though it was a bit exaggerated. I mean to lose faith in ...
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Posted: March 24th, 2011, 5:00pm UTC
”Our Last Best Chance”, King Abdullah II’s new book, discusses that the two-state solution in its Arab Peace Initiative formulation should be pushed for during Obama’s current presidential term, urgently. ...
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Posted: March 18th, 2011, 4:12pm UTC
There was a time in my life when I was obsessed with the subject of leadership; an interest that pushed me in the process to consume numerous and diversified accounts ...
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Posted: March 12th, 2011, 8:11pm UTC
With all the turmoils going on around these days, whether on a regional level or a local one, I find it hard to write something positive even though I promised ...
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Posted: March 9th, 2011, 3:40am UTC
As a "heretic" socialist/leftist who gives the middle finger to classical leftists (i.e. advocates of fake sophistication who perpetuate BS in guise of rigor) I am already aware of May ...
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Posted: February 24th, 2011, 6:42am UTC
I reckon that guides or reviews are swayed by the biases and preferences of those who write them, and this one is no exception. However, you have my word that ...
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Posted: February 15th, 2011, 12:23am UTC
Politics is one of those few endeavors were the epistemology of human knowledge is most obvious. That is why many philosophers perceive it as an art or a form of ...
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Posted: February 12th, 2011, 2:37am UTC
Despite the fact that I take my blog as an impersonal facet of me (whatever that means), and albeit my "rational" concerns regarding the next step, I am going to ...
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Posted: February 7th, 2011, 6:18am UTC
The prevalence of homosexuality in nature defies Darwin's "survival of the fittest"; I mean, think about it, gayness genes will self eliminate by definition, or do they? Give it a ...
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Posted: February 3rd, 2011, 8:57am UTC
In the previous post, I tried to shed some light on the term "nerd", since the concept is much deeper than what comes to mind when it is recalled. I ...
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Posted: January 29th, 2011, 10:30pm UTC
[If you still think this was really personal after reading the Post Script, then read the comments, hahaha]
Very few words could invoke fury in me, or to be ...
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Posted: January 24th, 2011, 5:40am UTC
The majority of Muslims are unaware of a devastating war that takes of the Islamic creed a main battleground, and goes on amongst the four major schools, which constitute the ...
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Posted: January 18th, 2011, 1:35am UTC
If you have been following blogs and tweets about Jordan for the last week, the chances are then that you heard about the threatened forest in Ajloun.
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Posted: January 13th, 2011, 6:04am UTC
"بالفعل إنها ظاهرة, لقد اعتدت على الإنجليزية إلى حد أصبحت فيه اللغة التي أفضلها للكتابة والتعبير عن آرائي الفلسفية"
This is a comment that the Glorious Ehab (Parodying ...
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Posted: January 10th, 2011, 1:28am UTC
The concept of “Citizen Journalism”, the way I understand it, is not easy to define, but I can confidently say it is not equivalent to a platform for the whining ...
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Posted: January 7th, 2011, 7:56pm UTC
The word "Socialism" might sound dull, no doubt, with all of the emphasis put in our modern times on individualism. For some Arabs, as a special case, it is likely ...
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Posted: January 4th, 2011, 1:46am UTC
[This picture was taken around 8:30 am, (January 4 2011). The oil truck was heading toward Al-Madina Circle, and in this moment, was only 300 meters, at most, away ...
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Posted: December 31st, 2010, 10:36pm UTC
[Not a filler post, but a semi-filler, and believing in Facebook as a complement of my blog (sometimes though, not always) I will be posting some of my status in ...
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Posted: December 24th, 2010, 2:46am UTC
Like most of those who work for a private company in Jordan, 5:00 PM is my zero hour. I leave the office I work at, on the outskirts of Amman, ...
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Posted: December 17th, 2010, 11:35pm UTC
I once asked a Lebanese friend, after noting the complicated relationship between Jordanians and the Lebanese, what do the latter people think of us? That friend lived in USA for ...
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Posted: December 15th, 2010, 5:41am UTC
I have noticed lately the number of German Shepherds owned as pets in Jordan, and every time I see one of those collared and taken for a walk I feel ...
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Posted: December 7th, 2010, 4:27pm UTC
It seems that Turkey had recently given up on the idea of the European Union; to be more accurate they gave up on the "European" but not the "Union".
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Posted: November 26th, 2010, 10:52pm UTC
Do you remember that girl or boy in your class who drew really good? And do you remember how they made your drawings look as if they were toddler scribbles? ...
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Posted: November 26th, 2010, 10:52pm UTC
Do you remember that girl or boy in your class who draw really good that they made your drawings look as if they were toddler scribbles? On a second thought ...
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Posted: November 18th, 2010, 7:06pm UTC
"Happiness" is simply a feeling. This means it has its roots in the limbic system and whatever is essential for it to function.
We share this limbic ...
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Posted: November 12th, 2010, 9:39pm UTC
I do not claim being an economy expert, but, I think I understand the basics of such a complex phenomenon, or at least I understand the fact that a free economy ...
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Posted: November 7th, 2010, 5:06pm UTC
Unlike in Syria and Egypt, where the blogging movement was to some extent an extension of a relatively active political life, the Jordanian blogging movement found its roots in a ...
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Posted: October 25th, 2010, 2:37am UTC
I was first introduced to "Determinism" as a purely physical concept. Back then, it sounded like an innocent term to me; if at a given point in time, we knew ...
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Posted: October 21st, 2010, 12:01am UTC
Extensive research on this issue of bullying in schools has been being done for the last 5 decades and it seems like the problem is still unsolved, if not aggravated....
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Posted: October 15th, 2010, 12:15am UTC
I think we had dwelled long enough on nepotism, racism, and a disconnected-from-reality system of education as reasons for this problem of unemployment. Time to move. Part of this issue, ...
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Posted: October 11th, 2010, 12:19am UTC
Lets face it. Our society is one that always demands testing before "buying" anything. From the classical example of water-melons, to cars. But it seems that we have profound traditions ...
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Posted: October 8th, 2010, 3:13pm UTC
When you are a young Jordanian man living in Jordan, then you most probably know that customer service is not really a pleasant experience. Be it the incompetent employees, or ...
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Posted: October 3rd, 2010, 12:28am UTC
Not a big fan of philosophy, but if atheists were right about it, then I have an answer for this question. If you did not figure out the meaning of ...
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Posted: September 29th, 2010, 12:57am UTC
Ras Al-Ain oil truck accident, in 2004, was one of the most tragic car accidents in the history of Jordan. The fuel truck driver, lost control, jumped out, and, will, ...
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Posted: September 25th, 2010, 5:57pm UTC
Psychology took some time before it was established as a science, and that is obviously due to the nature of the subject. For a branch of study to be called ...
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Posted: September 20th, 2010, 2:00am UTC
No, this will not be a post that blames parents for the failure of their kids in life; it will blame the ways that kids developed to learn about life, ...
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Posted: September 16th, 2010, 5:55am UTC
This has been in the news for some time now, but no blogger in the Jordanian blogsphere commented on it, or at least I do not know of any who ...
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Posted: September 13th, 2010, 10:50pm UTC
There was a time in the history of Islam, when scholars discussed, freely, whatever they wanted, even God himself, in a manner that by today's standards sounds blasphemous! Were people ...
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Posted: September 7th, 2010, 9:41pm UTC
We are born, and then... we are always in hurry! I do not know how it is done outside Jordan, but inside it is always very quick! Every important decision ...
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Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:34pm UTC
This movie is the funniest thing I had ever watched! I watched it some 3 years ago, and I just can not but watch it every while and a then! ...
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Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 9:16pm UTC
People usually think that strength is intimidating in nature, i.e. kicking other people butts or scaring the shit out of them by shouting, but in all honesty, I find that ...
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Posted: August 31st, 2010, 2:36am UTC
In the sense that a company and a blog are usually run by humans for generating something of interest, albeit with different incentives, they just happen to share many things ...
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Posted: August 30th, 2010, 8:05pm UTC
Dr. Elias Akleh posted an article on Sabbah report arguing that the Judaic God Yahweh is a pagan bloody God! I commented twice over his post but the Dr. ...
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Posted: August 28th, 2010, 5:09am UTC
Social networking give you the chance to write a little bit about yourself, so that if anybody reads your profile and find you interesting then he/she might like you and ...
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Posted: August 26th, 2010, 5:56pm UTC
[In memory of Reema, may God bliss her soul]
I remember times when oracles used to roam restaurants in Amman, specially the ones you find on the Jubilee ...
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Posted: August 20th, 2010, 3:05am UTC
[I will avoid the technicalities of such a discussion, but talking about some specific concepts is inevitable]
Ask a layman what he/she thinks the future of energy will be ...
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Posted: August 16th, 2010, 1:09am UTC
Abu-Yousef SongsRaf3 ShaheenBank Elm3lomat2 hours of Agriculture programs per day (Back then the Jordanian T.V. channel operated for only 5 hours per day)Syrain and Jordanian English Channels"o5to Madona" songIskan bank ...
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Posted: August 13th, 2010, 12:05am UTC
In an attempt to spread awareness of two very common personal disorders in Jordan, and due to the hyper active state you are in while fasting, Aerie's productions presents: Your ...
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Posted: August 12th, 2010, 10:37pm UTC
Yesterday I was going through my brother's school books when the following paragraph caught my attention:
ان الانحراف الاخلاقي في التعامل مع الجينوم البشري يأتي بالدرجة الاولى في حصر ...
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Posted: August 10th, 2010, 8:41pm UTC
Tom & Jerry might look as if it was only an animated comedy show for a grown up adult, but for kids, it might be the best thing that ever ...
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Posted: August 6th, 2010, 8:35pm UTC
Oh, what can I say! I find it hard to express my feelings here, but it all started when we studied sexual selection back at the school; as Darwin put ...
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Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 3:16am UTC
Gyms in Jordan, be it located in a slum, or be it an overpriced one are essentially all the same! They are run with the same mentality, and it is ...
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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 12:23am UTC
So our national team made it to the 2010 FIBA world championship, to be the biggest underdog in the tournament! The team will be playing in group A, against Argentina ...
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Posted: July 26th, 2010, 6:36pm UTC
Driving is one of those many stressing experiences in Jordan that makes you curse at, at least 20% of the drivers you drive by on the road, but yesterday in ...
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Posted: July 23rd, 2010, 9:46pm UTC
So you finished your Tawjihi recently, and have only one month after a hectic year to decide on the thing that will waste your time but will shape the rest ...
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Posted: July 21st, 2010, 12:25am UTC
The way a society answers this question can tell you a lot about it!
The fern paper above is a classical example of something named fractals; ...
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Posted: July 16th, 2010, 9:24pm UTC
What really bother me about this channel are:
The selective and biased coverage: I really never knew that Qatar was an utopia! And you can not air religious ...
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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 8:49pm UTC
So it has been almost 2 months since I started attending this thing! There are more than one group, so to make things clear, I will be talking about Maraqa's ...
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Posted: July 12th, 2010, 9:26pm UTC
So you might be bombarded with recommendations to read the blink or the tipping point, two nonfiction bestsellers! The question is, should you or should you not?
"Bestseller" is ...
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Posted: July 9th, 2010, 9:12pm UTC
A year ago there was an article in one of the Jordanian Newspapers talking about a man, who went over to his wife's work place, and apologized to her in ...
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Posted: July 6th, 2010, 1:24am UTC
[This will be, mainly, a discussion about current technologies that promise human immortality, so do not take it from a religious point of view, as I am avoiding that as ...
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Posted: July 3rd, 2010, 1:35am UTC
Lately, I have been coming across too many studies and articles that discuss human bias toward the good looking in job interviews, or any other selection processes, in a context ...
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Posted: June 25th, 2010, 7:48pm UTC
I was not planning for this sequel, but the smart comments I received, pushed me to search further to find about the current state of Arabic language, and I have ...
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Posted: June 24th, 2010, 11:08pm UTC
The do not vote campaign in the latest American presidential elections was a cool series of ads targeting youth! Presented by some Hollywood star saying "Don't vote, it does not ...
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Posted: June 22nd, 2010, 3:31am UTC
In part one of this series, I discussed how parents can sometimes be ignorant of the lessons that their kids learn from their actions, and that preaching is an ineffective ...
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Posted: June 21st, 2010, 11:10pm UTC
Arabic language, a language with a very unique system of writing and phonetics, and the second most spoken language on earth, second to Chinese, is a language that its natives ...
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Posted: June 17th, 2010, 6:29am UTC
So the government decided to force new taxes to help in compensating for the deficiency in it's budget, notice the "it's", and they say that this will save them 0.5 ...
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Posted: June 15th, 2010, 9:49pm UTC
I am going to be talking about a Universal issue, which is the issue of parents who do not know how to raise their kids, but in a Jordanian context. ...
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Posted: June 13th, 2010, 11:10pm UTC
Yesterday, I saw the first live French kiss in my life! And by live, haha, I mean right in front of my eyes! The funny thing, it was done by ...
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Posted: June 10th, 2010, 7:07pm UTC
Before starting, I am not communist, socialist or any of this, I am just a guy who believe in finding solutions to human problems and issues, and alleviating their miseries, ...
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Posted: June 5th, 2010, 8:23pm UTC
This topic got me into trouble with my heat transfer professor some 2 years ago! Anyways please stop flattering yourselves, you are using everything you can use in your brain, ...
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Posted: June 4th, 2010, 7:43pm UTC
I know the word liberal have some bad connotations for our dear society, but I can not see our current education system liberating a fly, the way it is nowadays!...
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Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 5:03pm UTC
So this had been my third time going to this event, fast walking or fast walkers, whatever, it does not really matter!
It is really fun! I usually use ...
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Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 8:21pm UTC
It is mind boggling how most of our problems, we humans, can be solved effortlessly! Such effortless solutions usually do not only solve our problems, but bring with them extra ...
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Posted: May 31st, 2010, 10:50pm UTC
I am a hero, because I attacked a ship full of weapons that will destroy my country! Weapons such as food, clothes and medicine!
Common guys, ...
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