Panoramic images
For those who were curious about the partisan hospital I wrote about recently, here are some stunning VR panoramas of how it was - and how it is, after the flood. ...
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Is VAT virtual?
I wonder: where is the remarkable part of the fact that European subscribers will be asked to pay the VAT when paying for an online service? Is it worth writing a newspaper article? Yes, if the service...
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The green network
We have always considered plants as mostly passive beings, able to perform just a small set of very simple and limited reactions to the most obvious changes in their environment. Light, darkness. Open,...
Commonplace jokes
As a consequence of globalization, even clichés travel around the globe. Dumb blondes are not a popular stereotype here, but Antonio pointed out a credible candidate for the best blonde joke ever and...
Blind date
It may be easy to dismiss this story with a laugh, but it would be unfair.A married couple who didn't realise they were chatting each other up on the Internet are divorcing. Sana Klaric and husband Adnan,...
War crimes
By citing Italy's colonial wars, Domiziana made me remember an article I read some time ago about the Lybia campaign. Citing an anthropological study of relations between nomads and sedentary people, the...
A friend was lost
Ten years ago, professor and senator Darko Bratina died and left a great void in the cultural life of my home town.When our friendship began, I was just a self-conceited teenager and he was a professor...
How to look suspicious
Just wear blue-jeans and a white t-shirt: it all depends on the context. I often cross the border by bike on saturday mornings (there is a small bakery just a couple of kilometers away, and the bread is...
Michael Moore did not know
At least six people died last Tuesday as heavy rain caused floods in northwestern Slovenia. While expressing my regret for the loss of human lives, I also want to point out the destruction of a piece of...
Relevant words
While writing a message with my phone, I discovered that the built-in vocabulary does not have the 'blog' word in it. It felt quite unnatural. ...
New humanism
I remember, a long time ago, being horrified by the proclaim made by Silvio Berlusconi that the new, reformed school would put a lot of emphasis on the famous three 'i's: English, Informatics, Enterprise....