January 2011
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Egypt is burning and most westerners have no idea... →
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By Parvez Sharma
January 28, 2011
Cairo is burning. So is Egypt. Twitter is exploding. Everyone seems to have an opinion—many who do have never even been to Egypt but feel a strong sense of solidarity with the most remarkable revolution in a generation, perhaps. A revolution which importantly is not really caused by Twitter or by Facebook—as much as the self...
This time a few years ago, I was unemployed, home and emotionally overwrought, watching Victoria burn.
This time, I’m working and watching clips and Twitter, reading, worried for friends in Queensland.
Nothing is more surreal and more worrying than watching from afar via first hand accounts, reading couples communicating over twitter because the phone lines are busy, saying they’ll...
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
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1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick...
