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Some months ago, there was a piece of news about Tel Aviv University creating a “Supercenter” for renewable energy. For a moment I was surprised, as Israel seemed far from the most likely place where something like this would happen. But then I remembered Shimon Peres’ statement about developing alternative fuel and energy as a […]

Considering the timing, I have to start by saying that this post has nothing to do with the United States elections. What was there was working badly and therefore required change. Bad things don’t usually change in this world of ours, or at least not for the better, but the good or “functional” ones sure […]

A couple of days ago I watched Zeitgeist: Addendum, which is far better than the first one and leads to more serious projects. Those projects are The Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project. I won’t focus too much on the movie itself, it’s just a means to an end. There could be factual errors in […]

Today is World Animal Day and I’d like to wish all animals to have a nice one. That includes the humans who realize that we’re animals too and take that into account when determining how to treat the other species that we share this planet with. If more would do that, it would make a […]

I have a problem with awareness campaigns for already well-known causes, even very “catchy” ones. They cost a lot of resources of all kinds, be they money, time or manpower, and that reduces the chance of something actually being done for the cause they’re trying to raise awareness about. I think that, at least when […]