A Simple but Fantastic Illusion
You can not believe your eyes after looking at this picture that simply shows a brick wall. A wall that has crack in it…
Being Hassan for Morocco
A photographer, designer, and filmmaker, Hassan Hajjaj is one of Morocco’s preeminent international artists, sometimes called his native country’s answer to Andy Warhol. Entirely…
Dance About I Hate Dancing
Directer, choreographer , dancer and filmmaker Jo Roy made a playful video based on a poem by British actor and comedian Stephen Fry…
Fact-Resistant Humans Killing the Earth
Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study…
Illusionist Painter
Rob Gonsalves is a 55-year-old Canadian of Portuguese descent who paints scenes that fill in the space somewhere in between everyday activities and hallucinations….
Debate Whether the World Exists
You might not think there’d be much overlap between neuroscience and philosophy, but that’s not what philosopher Alva Noë sees. Where philosophers have long…
Secularism in the Last Six Centuries
The religious implications of secularism are often misconstrued, too. Secularisation did not mean godlessness; for the most part, early modern Europeans were profoundly Christian….
Future of Islam
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” ― George Orwell, 1984 These days every…
She ran across northern Iran and saw kindness
Kristina Palten was wondering what she can do to have an impact on prejudiced world that she encounters. She decided to run alone across Iran….
Iranian Homosexuals in an Album
Born to Iranian parents but growing up with Swiss upbringing gave Laurence Rasti critical mind that has a flavors of both culture. In her project “There Are…
A cozy dining spot in the middle of nowhere
Sometimes you have no idea how a place in the middle of your way to a destination can become your cozy spot. You would…
A guy in our office is going through a divorce
He is distracted and depressed and hardly focused. He is constantly complaining, skipping on office work and missing deadlines. And to top it all…
The girl in a veil
It was all we had on our minds: to hit on girls when they least expected it. We were teenage boys in junior high;…
Thom Yorke and the manly dance
I had always had a passion for dancing. However, I used to turn into a tough hard body as soon as I started to…
If you are the Prince, I would be your persian Princess
I was running late to work as usual, on the morning April 21st. Jumped in the car and started the engine. The radio got on and…
I’m not your girlfriend honey, just be fast
The door bell rang and the boy ran to the door monitor and picked up the phone with no hesitation. Right before, he…
My mother had no idea what "feminisim" means
I was only six when me and my mother walked through the mountains for the first time, to get to our ancestral village in…
A brief history of Iranian cinema
To best understand the roots of Iranian cinema, one must perhaps travel back to the early 20th century, when the Qajar monarch Mozaffareddin Shah…
I am still *mesmerized*
It was midday, almost noon. I was at the office and dad called, wondering about my plans for lunch. And I talked about not…
Iranian Men Are Very Gentle and Shy
Men across the country and from a broad range of backgrounds posed for Irish photographer Owen McCann who was travelling in Iran. ‘There was…
A philosophical Self-Knowledge Questionnaire
According to the philosophers of Ancient Greece, the summit of achievement was to have followed the injunction to ‘know yourself.’ While we all have…
On the Internet, Everyone is a Critic
On the Internet, everyone is a critic — a Yelp-fueled takedown artist, an Amazon scholar, a cheerleader empowered by social media to Like and…
Esfahan, Endangered Archive
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First Illustrated Persian Translation of Allan Poe’s The Raven
Allan Poe’s “The Raven” had been translated to Persian in the past, but this edition is a distinguished artifice because of its approach to both publication and translation….
Iranian Jewellery Designers in Instagram
It seems that the jewellery design industry is booming in Iran. In the last 10 years there has been a new revival for this…
How Corporations Created ‘Cool’
A philosopher / neuroscientist and a political scientist, wrote a book on how we as a consumer follow up the superficial trends that corporations make for…
He Adds Cartoon to People's Instagram
Lucas Levitan, a Brazilian illustrator and multimedia artist, based in London with his known series that he calls “Photo Invasion,” he creates the most…
Toronto Film Festival and All the Crying Men
Crying male protagonists appeared in the first two films that I saw in this year’s TIFF. It came to my mind that maybe I should look for a trend, the unexpected snivelling…
Iranian Fusion Band "Circle" CD Release – Toronto
This is the band that we introduced in our Persian magazine and we claimed that they got very close to adapting our beloved poet…
Canadian Couple Cancels Wedding to Help Syrian Refugees
A Toronto couple cancelled plans for a big, expensive wedding and asked guests at their small city hall ceremony to donate money in lieu…
15 Books That President Obama Bought at a Local Bookstore
On a recent Saturday, President Obama and his family went to a local independent bookstore, Politics and Prose, and purchased 21 books. Here are…
A Family Portrait That left on the Moon
On April 20, 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke took his first steps on the Moon. He was 36 at the time and is…
The Loss of High Culture
This loss of high culture is not an American phenomenon alone. English intellectual and artistic life has fallen off greatly since the generation of…
Dancing Kid in Iranian Religious Mourning Parade
“Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of…
Elephants’ Strategy to Fight Cancer
In 1977, a University of Oxford statistician named Richard Peto pointed out a simple yet puzzling biological fact: We humans should have a lot…
How Did Humans Spread Out Over the Earth?
Most of human history is prehistory. Of the 200,000 or more years that humans have spent on Earth, only a tiny fraction have been…
Vsauce YouTube channel and Billion viewers
The concept that Mr Vsauce ( one of the most popular YouTube channel) explained in this 21 minutes video, is mind boggling. He start…
We All judge Ourselves Too Harshly
It’s easy to feel like we aren’t good enough. We all judge ourselves too harshly, and reflect on our failures too critically. In an…
The Web is Dying
Seven months ago, I sat down at the small table in the kitchen of my 1960s apartment, nestled on the top floor of a…