I invite you to have a look at my new book “The Advent of New Proletariat”, available now (in Polish) in selected bookshops. The subtitle of the book: “Hellenic and Western Civilization according to Arnold Toynbee” tells more about the content: I critically analyze Toynbee’s model of the rise and collapse of civilizations to check […]
April 19, 2012
Philosoverse 2012, a new issue of a philosophical poetry volume has been recently published by London School of Economics. This year’s edition is entitled Around the World in 80 lines; its main part consists of a set of short, four verse poems exploring different characteristics of mainly non-Western civilizations. Apart from the information contained in […]
March 13, 2012
We know we are being followed in the web. But the extent to which we are tracked and the consequences of this fact have been something we are hardly aware of. Until now. A great application called Collusion allows you to track the trackers! From March 2012 on we are being officially followed by Google, […]
February 26, 2012
A practical technicality. Many users of WordPress.com find it irritating that one cannot easily add “empty lines” to the the content of their posts and pages. This is because the CMS editor in the visual mode automatically gets rid of blank lines, thus depriving the user of the possibility to compose the content in accordance […]
January 24, 2012
Jacek Dukaj rocks. Another Polish science fiction writer, after Stanislav Lem, has a chance to become a cornerstone on the road of science fiction. His “Ice” will be soon translated into English. We should campaign for translation of “Perfect Imperfection” as well. Here’s why. It suffices to read the synopsis of Dukaj’s book “Perfect Imperfetion” […]
November 1, 2011
We use Google daily- the ability to use it determines the quality of our access to information. Below some non standard commands which might be useful in daily work of a journalist and researcher. I confess I note them here to have a fast access in case I would once forget them: + and – […]
May 21, 2012
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