Category: Society
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Hitler - Person of the Year (or Do you trust media?)
Hitler was declared "Person of the Year" from the "prestigious" international TIME magazine in 1938 (see figure above). And guess what happened in 1939: The new "Person of the Year" was... Joseph Stalin! Of course there is no need to tell you that the pictures of these front covers cannot be easily found today... Mass…
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Laughing, Tragedy, Korea...
We all saw North Koreans cry their eyes out when their leader passed away. We all laughed at the intense way they cried and at the gestures of grief they made on TV screens, as if their very own son had died. However for those people a tragedy took place at the same moment we…
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The power of Experts! Listen, don't think!
Louis de Broglie received his first degree in History. Afterwards he turned his attention toward mathematics and physics and received a degree in physics. His 1924 Recherches sur la théorie des quanta (Research on the Theory of the Quanta), introduced his theory of electron waves. This included the wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Max Planck and Albert Einstein on…
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Judge the tree by its fruits...
You will judge them by their fruits (Gr. Από τους καρπούς τους και μόνο μπορείτε να τους κρίνετε), said once upon a time a wise man... And how true is this in todays society. Modern people are full with distrust, with hate, with love for all the wrong things, with greed, with impatience, with lack…
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Modern slaves (i.e. us) mocking ancient slaves...
We all today feel "sorry" about the slaves in the ancient years. However we always forget that almost all of us are some kind of modern slaves, working many hours per day under extreme pressure and missing the really important things of our lives in order to catch up with reports and deadlines. It is…
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