Varanasi (ancient Kāśī), also known as Banaras, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world (see: Eck, Diana L. 1982. Banaras: City of Light. Princeton: Princeton University Press). The archaeological layers associated with the area of the modern city are reliably dated to the 9th or 8th century BCE, although there are […]
Senegal today also preserves the memory of the Salonika Front, when the French army fought shoulder to shoulder with the Serbs, and among its ranks there were Senegalese soldiers as well. Senegal, a country somewhat larger than Serbia and Greece combined, with about twenty million inhabitants, is slowly waking from its dream and taking the […]
Viktor Lazić befriended pirates, crossed thousands of kilometers in a Lada Niva, and spent 15 years traveling. His literary works are not the fruit of imagination but the result of real adventures that erase all boundaries between the real and the literary world. Viktor Lazić is a travel writer, an untiring traveler, and an explorer […]
Networks threaten hierarchies – Sam Vaknin (Selected parts of the lecture: part 1; part 2) Because they are based on obedience, in hierarchies most people are not competent for their positions. Hierarchies disempower. In hierarchies, the main role of hierarchy is to take away your power. Networks empower. Networks give you power. Hierarchies take […]
Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE. History would never be the same again. What year is it? It’s 2019, obviously. An easy question. Last year was 2018. Next year will be 2020. We are confident that a century ago it was 1919, and in 1,000 years it will be […]
We’ll meet again. The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in the afterlife. In four heartfelt letters to his mother he explained why As the foremost logician of the 20th century, Kurt Gödel is well known for his incompleteness theorems and contributions to set theory, the publications of which changed the course of mathematics, logic and […]
Throughout all previous epochs and periods of history of the development of the human race and society, and the active observation and subsequent direct exploration of space, the process of obtaining answers to some of the most difficult, essential questions seems to be heating up to the maximum, but at the same time complicating. Consequently, […]
From an emirate to space travel (and back again) I did not intend to write about Afghanistan, or the land of the Afghans, or as they call the tomb of empires, but, I felt obliged from another perspective to write a word or two about this country of disobedient peoples living in it, unlike from liberal […]