This week, soldiers across the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took part in a special project to visit Holocaust survivors across the country. "Flower to the Survivor" was born three years ago in 2005 as an initiative of the IDF Education Corp and the Museum of the Ghetto Fighters and promised that 1,000 Holocaust survivors across the country […]
Grand Unified Theory of Weirdness
I have been an avid reader of the Rigorous Intuition blog for some time now. It is always thought provoking. While trying to make a comment today about a post and the comments about it, I found I couldn’t. Having spent some time on it, I thought someone ought to read it. It seems to […]
Orkan “kyrill” shuts down the trains
Berlin’s main train station closes A two-ton steel girder fell 40 meters to the ground from the façade of Berlin’s new central train station on Thursday night during a severe storm. Although nobody was injured, questions remain about the building’s safety. The powerful storm "Kyrill" didn’t just result in cancelled trains and stranded passengers across […]
The Public Art of San Francisco
So which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a reclaimed former industrial zone. The fact is that since the 1930’s, murals have […]
Rock’n’Roll Photography Lawyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Andrew Stroud is the picture perfect example of the nine-to-five business man. Each day he arrives at the 25-story building that houses his law firm, Mennemeier, Glassman & Stroud, and immediately immerses himself in the various civil litigation suits piled high on his desk. However, when the day comes to an end, […]
Iran: A Threat Ignored
In the dispute between the US and Iran it seems that the international community has shown little or no decisiveness. Iran has stated its dangerous intentions time and again yet most of the media seems too busy, too comfortable, and perhaps too confused to ask the hard questions regarding Iran. President Ahmedinajad has written an […]