Category: Around World

Interesting articles, documentaries and news from the world.

1421: The Year China Discovered America

1421: The Year China Discovered AmericaAuthor: Gavin Menzies William Morrow Paperbacks, 2008 A must-read book that will change your dogma about an important historical event. It explains… Read more "1421: The Year China Discovered America"
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Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof

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Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers

A database containing the phone numbers of more than half a billion Facebook users is being freely traded online, and Facebook is trying to pin the …… Read more "Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers"
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Bill Gates says Bioterrorism and Climate Change are the next big threats

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Brian Acton and his advice

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What Steve Jobs was thinking about Privacy?

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To be in decline

The “American Dream” failed. The imposed life-style and culture is loosing and USA is losing ground in the world. Just when someone started to think about to… Read more "To be in decline"
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Trump paradox

Thinking about Trump’s campaign success and his supporters.

Trump’s supporters don’t measure his success by what he does them, they measure his success by what he does people they hate. His tormenting of others sustain their small egomaniacal reasoning. Trump’s supporters don’t measure his success by what he does for them, they measure his success by what he does against people they hate. His tormenting of others sustain their small egomaniacal reasoning.

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Do not generalize

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FB vs. Wikipedia

“Facebook is testing a new feature that displays factual information from Wikipedia in some search results”. Wikipedia is an open-source platform, one of firsts democratic platforms in… Read more "FB vs. Wikipedia"
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Tank Man

Tiananmen Square – 5 June 1989 (footages)

Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname of an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests by force.

Internationally, it is considered one of the most iconic images of all time. Inside China, the image and the events leading up are subject to heavy state censorship.

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Balaha

“Prison Doesn’t Kill, Loneliness Does”: Film-maker Who Mocked The Egyptian President Al-Sisi Dies In Prison, For a Song Calls Him “BALAHA“. This song has more than 6… Read more "Balaha"
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