• What’s up Iran!

    What’s up Iran!

    Once again the religious dictatorship in Iran shots down the internet.

  • Iran Now

    Iran Now

    #مهسا_امینی #MahsaAmini

  • Iranian Citizens Are In Streets Again

    Iranian Citizens Are In Streets Again

    Once again in more than 50 cities of Iran, people are back to the streets to show the world that they don’t want the corrupt and brutal religious regime.

  • WHY BAD GUYS ARE WINNING

    WHY BAD GUYS ARE WINNING

    If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse. Democratic revolutions are contagious. If you can stamp them out in one country, you might prevent them from starting in others. How…

  • Alarm as execution looms for scientist on death row in Iran

    Alarm as execution looms for scientist on death row in Iran

    He is being supported by a campaign by 153 Nobel laureates. In response to the latest developments, the group urged Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to release him. The judiciary comes under the jurisdiction of the office of the supreme leader, Iran’s head of state. “The attack on Ahmadreza Djalali is a tremendous assault…

  • 4 out of 10 people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens

    4 out of 10 people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens

    4 out of 10 people who get doctorates in Norway are foreign citizens

  • Mohammad Reza Shajarian (1940 – 2020)

    Mohammad Reza Shajarian (1940 – 2020)

    Iranians Grieve Death Of Legendary Singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian

  • Persian hashtag #اعدام_نکنید

    Persian hashtag #اعدام_نکنید

    If you are seeing this Persian hashtag #اعدام_نکنید in your feed, you might already know that there are three young Iranians that are sentenced to death for the crime of participating in peaceful protests last fall. The protests were about ongoing economic hardships. The unconfirmed number of protesters gunned down is in thousands. That was before the…

  • How Europe became so rich

    How Europe became so rich

    It should be emphasised that Europe’s success was not the result of any inherent superiority of European (much less Christian) culture. It was rather what is known as a classical emergent property, a complex and unintended outcome of simpler interactions on the whole. The modern European economic miracle was the result of contingent institutional outcomes.…

  • The First kiss in The Movie

    The First kiss in The Movie

    The Kiss arrived in 1896, when movies were still a captivating new concept. Auguste and Louis Lumiere had just begun showing off their cinematograph—a hand-crank camera that included a projector—in demonstrations around Paris, three years after Thomas Edison had invited spectators to peer into the peephole of his kinetoscope and watch the flickering film inside. Continue…

  • Students at Iranian’s   university avoid walking on U.S. and Israeli flags painted at entrance

    Students at Iranian’s university avoid walking on U.S. and Israeli flags painted at entrance

  • The World’s Biggest Hostage Taking In Iran

    The World’s Biggest Hostage Taking In Iran

  • Cyber Curfew in Iran

    Cyber Curfew in Iran

    Update: #Iran has now been offline for 52 hours following a government-imposed internet shutdown targeting widespread public protests. National connectivity remains at just 5% of normal levels, leaving Iranians cut off from the world #Internet4Iran⏱ 📰https://t.co/1Al0DT8an1 pic.twitter.com/F5Y9nBdnOJ — NetBlocks (@netblocks) November 18, 2019 @nytimes @CNN @cnnbrk @AP #IranianProtests #Internet4Iran #Iran

  • America’s largest immigrant group comes from?

    America’s largest immigrant group comes from?

    This map shows where each state’s largest immigrant group comes from, excluding Mexico. The percentage of the population born outside the US varies widely from state to state. Among those immigrant populations, countries of origin also vary widely. For 32 states, the most common country of birth among respondents who said they were born outside…

  • Toronto’s Buds are Blooming

    Toronto’s Buds are Blooming

      Photos by Saide Kardar  via Samsung phone (8)

  • Tourist Video of Iran – Mio Iran

    Tourist Video of Iran – Mio Iran

    last year, sebastian linda a German filmmaker went to Iran with his pregnant wife while they were expecting their child to be born soon.  This video has been made as a gift for their son Mio … Apparently the got their son’s name from Mayyu, a village in Dasht-e Laleh Rural District, Asir District, Mohr…

  • photo of the day – katydid nymph’s yoga

    photo of the day – katydid nymph’s yoga

    Andreas Kay is a photographer who shares the wonders of the Amazon rainforest with us… In this photo he captured a moment that is much like a starching yoga pose of a katydid nymph. continue reading …

  • Iranian Scientist at Melbourne university turned carbon dioxide back into coal

    Iranian Scientist at Melbourne university turned carbon dioxide back into coal

    Lead author, Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh, a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in RMIT’s School of Engineering, developed the electrochemical technique to capture and convert atmospheric CO2 to storable solid carbon. To convert CO2, the researchers designed a liquid metal catalyst with specific surface properties that made it extremely efficient at conducting electricity while chemically activating the surface.…

  • Banksy painting self-destructs after being sold at auction

    Banksy painting self-destructs after being sold at auction

    Banksy has now become a household name, and that his work achieves strong prices at major auctions is no longer a curiosity or exception. When Sotheby’s announced that a final lot of their Contemporary Art Evening Auction on the Friday night of 2018 Frieze week in London would be a previously unseen version of Banksy’s…

  • The Most Feared Song In Jazz, Explained

    The Most Feared Song In Jazz, Explained

    Making sense of John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps.”

  • In Praise of Short-Term Love

    In Praise of Short-Term Love

    So much in our culture emphasizes long-term love; it may be time to hear a word or two in praise of the short-term approach.

  • French Court Rules in Favor of helping Illegal Migrants

    French Court Rules in Favor of helping Illegal Migrants

    Dr. Zia Oloumi is a Human Rights Lawyer of Iranian-descent, living in France. He is the Attorney representing Cédric Herrou, and is the architect of the new defense approach based on the value of ‘Fraternity’ leading to the Constitutional Council ruling of July 6th 2018, in favor of Humanitarian Aid to Illegal Migrants. “I wish…

  • Four Billion Years of Evolution in Six Minutes

    Four Billion Years of Evolution in Six Minutes

    You’re Wrong About Evolution. Mst people – probably even you – have been taught evolution wrong, according to Prosanta Chakrabarty, associate professor of ichthyology, evolution and systematics at Louisiana State University. He breaks these down in this brilliant TED talk: Four billion years of evolution in six minutes. If you have the time, it’s definitely worth watching, because…

  • Iranian Flirtatious Move and Grove is In Jail

    Iranian Flirtatious Move and Grove is In Jail

    Mahi Maedeh one of the most famous Iranian celebrities in social networks has been arrested in Iran for dancing. Apparently the 17 years old Maede Hojabri had no choice but to show remorse in Government’s main T.V … This arrest brought another wave of disappointment in Iranian Public sphere and one more time shewed how…

  • Iranian Youth by the Photos

    The government official in Iran always trying to impose a sort of religiosity among the nation’s youth but there are journalists and artists that are trying to show the real face of Iran. photographer Hossein Fatemi captured some raw images of the Iranian youth in their day to day life. He was able to show a…

  • Rosh Hashanah, Iran, Shiraz 1974

    Rosh Hashanah, Iran, Shiraz 1974

    Iranian Jewish celebrating their Rosh Hashanah ( The new year) in Shiraz, Iran 1974

  • Britney Spears workout of a sweat session With Her Iranian Boyfriend

    Britney Spears workout of a sweat session With Her Iranian Boyfriend

    In her Instagram, Britney Spears posted an Instagram workout of a sweat session with her Iranian boyfriend and it was lovely. she at the end add a caption that said: Stronger together A post shared by Britney Spears (@britneyspears) on May 3, 2018 at 1:24pm PDT  

  • Japanese super-centenarian Masazo Nonaka

    Japanese super-centenarian Masazo Nonaka

    At 112 years, Japanese super-centenarian Masazo Nonaka has just been recognized as the world’s oldest man. The new record holder was born on July 25, 1905 … He needs a wheelchair to move but he is in good condition,” Yuko Nonaka, his granddaughter, told AFP. “He loves eating any kinds of sweets – Japanese or…

  • Persian Yellow Deer Got a Fawn

    Persian Yellow Deer Got a Fawn

    Iran Environment and Wild Life Watch reported that the endangered and one of the world’s rarest deer species had a new family member and their total numbers adds up to 45 …  

  • Recreating DNA Without The Remains

    Recreating DNA Without The Remains

    A pharmaceutical company in Iceland called deCODE Genetics was able to recreate a desist person’s DNA from the living descendants rather than the physical remains. With this scientific achievement, one can start dreaming of a day that, the genetic specialists not only would recreate the DNA’s of all famous people in human history, but also recreating who…

  • Iranians protest Against Government – 2018

    Iranians protest Against Government – 2018

    Iranians people chanting against dictatorship, corruption and demand freedom https://youtu.be/Kpl-Ev5fcko https://youtu.be/K54BV-OVyVU https://youtu.be/hnmcyOqTYX0 https://youtu.be/MD4ht8SazGU https://youtu.be/zx83lnsmlF4

  • Iranian People, Regret the Revolution

    Iranian People, Regret the Revolution

    It is not only the social media of Iran that regrets, make fun and repels the revolution … It is also part of a daily ritual in the streets of cities all around the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDDr8kuG28c hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4A05dSDtwQttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdt4IEPPMhM

  • West is not Bad

    West is not Bad

    In general there is no Western human and its unique way of biological being that differs from the rest of the world… So there is no innate quest in West to dominate other human. Whoever had the power would do the same as west did. The fact of the matter is, in the long evolving…

  • Iranian cultural festival – Tirgan

    Iranian cultural festival – Tirgan

  • The Islamic Science Fiction Then and Now

    The Islamic Science Fiction Then and Now

    Centuries before invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets and before the Western Imagination, there was the Abbasid caliphs that established the city of Baghdad and with that came The Islamic Golden age.  Almost 1300 years ago, The scientific endeavours of Islamic empire was stuffed with the scientific curiosities that continue to flourish for…

  • Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA’s Newest Astronaut Recruit

    Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA’s Newest Astronaut Recruit

    An American – Iranian Cobra pilot Jasmin Moghbeli has been selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. The New York native earned a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. The 12…

  • 52 of The Most Common Misconceptions

    52 of The Most Common Misconceptions

    You’d think that in the age of the internet, where more information than we can possibly consume in several lifetimes is at our fingertips, stubborn myths from the past would die away. But who among us still thinks the Great Wall of China is visible from space, and that it’s a bad idea to pick…

  • Just Say ‘I’m Sorry’

    Just Say ‘I’m Sorry’

    Aaccording to the psychologist and author Harriet Lerner, the wording of my apology was just what the “doctor” would have ordered. In the very first chapter of her new book, “Why Won’t You Apologize?,” Dr. Lerner points out that apologies followed by rationalizations are “never satisfying” and can even be harmful. “When ‘but’ is tagged…

  • The Hyperbole of Internet-Speak

    The Hyperbole of Internet-Speak

    Parents with young children up to 25 years old can not keep up with the the hyperbolic  vocabularies, impressions, exaggerations  that being used  and changed in an almost daily bases. “‘Literally dying’ has become, like, the new LOL,” she said, referring to the acronym for “laugh out loud,” which, of course, if you know literally…

  • Simple life Was Only Necessary

    Simple life Was Only Necessary

    Through much of human history, frugal simplicity was not a choice but a necessity – and since necessary, it was also deemed a moral virtue. But with the advent of industrial capitalism and a consumer society, a system arose that was committed to relentless growth, and with it grew a population (aka ‘the market’) that…