Freedom of speech is an increasingly rare commodity it seems. Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has just announced he wants to set up an international consortium to monitor “hate speech.” Hate speech, like so-called free-speech zones and other forms of censorship, is part of a 21st century evolution of linguistic sophistry. The concept is only […]
Bald Men Are Ruggedly Handsome And Sexy
Article from Barbara Kasey Smith’s Corner of the World: Men who are balding often feel like their looks are going down the drain every time they wash their heads. They have a fear and become self-conscious, spending a lot of time trying to hide the fact their hair’s not as thick as it was at […]
Five-year term for J&K Legislative Assembly sought :Harsh Dev
Jammu,March 9 (Scoop News) – Urging for a uniform duration for all democratic institutions in the J&K state, Harsh Dev Singh NPP MLA said any bias or preferential treatment to Legislature with prejudice against other institutions was highly unjust, and opposed to the spirit of democracy. Harsh Dev Singh and its Working […]
Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature
New technologies influence writing, triggering a redefinition of the relationship between writer-text-reader-critic and giving birth to a new contemporary fictional model, characterized by fragment organization, character crisis, dramatization of the epic and the lyric text, narrative crisis, a mixture of various aspects of language, exploration of diverse enunciative spaces. The digital era has become […]
Martin Evans Nobel prize winner
Sir Martin Evans won the most prestigious award in science, the Nobel Prize, for “a series of ground-breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals.” This fulfilled a boyhood dream for Sir Martin and firmly placed the Cardiff bio science centre on an international stage. He was one of three recipients of […]
Holt Baker: McCain’s Not Living Up to King’s Legacy
by Seth Michaels Today, we remember the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated 40 years ago in Memphis, Tenn., where he was helping striking sanitation workers form a union. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) went to the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis today to speak about the anniversary of King’s […]