The new Korea podcast SeoulGlow looks very promising. View the Youtube video below for a fascinating set of interviews of high school students preparing to take the college entrance exam, and view the spectacle of police rushing late students to the exams: The creator of this video podcast is Michael Hurt, who writes at one [...]
Timothy Garton Ash The File: A Personal History (BF) The File is a highly reflective and contemplative journey of the author Timothy Garton Ash, a trained historian and journalist, through his East German Ministry for State Security (MfS or Stasi) file. Ash has written widely about central and eastern Europe in the last years and [...]
Carl Linné, who plays an important role in the creation of the nomenclature of the biological world (Linnaeus, W) separated the homo sapiens into a number of subcategories (1758). 1. Wild man. Four-footed, mute, hairy. 2. American. Copper-coloured, choleric, erect. Hair black, straight, thick; nostrils wide; face harsh; beard, scanty; obstinate, content, free. Paints himself [...]