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Exeter Academic Contributes to New TV Series on Islam

By Guest PostJuly 20, 2011Culture, Mediabbc, british citizenship, historical personality, islam, islamic intellectual history, Jerusalem, jordan, mecca, muslims, muslims in britain, prophet, rageh omaar, saudi arabia, syria, the life of muhammad, the uk, the usa, turkey, university of cambridge, university of exeter

*A University of Exeter academic, who is an expert on Islam, has contributed to the new television series ‘The Life of Muhammad’ currently being broadcast on BBC Two. The three-part documentary, presented by journalist Rageh Omaar, charts the story of the Prophet who, in little more than 20 years, changed the world forever.*

Professor Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter’s Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, provided expert advice to the BBC team. He also appears in the series. (more…)

People often Talk About Politics on Blogs Geared Toward Other Topics

By Guest PostJuly 16, 2011Culture, Media, Politicsamericans, barcelona, blog posts, blogger, international conference on weblogs and social media, internet, national science foundation, paul resnick, personal diaries, political communication, political content, political discourse, political polarization, political websites, sean munson, university of michigan, Yahoo

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— A full 25 percent of blog posts about politics occur on sites that are primarily about something else, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan School of Information. And when authors post about politics, their readers reply and engage with the political content of the posts.

The researchers say they have uncovered a significant repository of political discourse that is largely being ignored. They will present their findings July 19 at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media in Barcelona. (more…)

Some Russians Still Live in The USSR

By PravdaJuly 9, 2011Culture, Politics666, antonina pronina, article 28, citizens, city of sverdlovsk, constitution of the russian federation, hammer and sickle, igor bukker, nostalgic, number of the beast, pravda, religious feelings, rubles, russian citizenship, russian federation, russian passport, soviet passport, soviet passport people, ussr, vladivostok

The Soviet passport stopped its existence seven years ago. Nevertheless, about 5,000 residents of the city of Sverdlovsk live in a non-existent country. They refuse to exchange their ID for a Russian passport. What is the reason behind such absurd situations? Do those people feel nostalgic about the erstwhile superpower or are they stuck-in-the-mud kind of people? What can be done about such citizens who can not even be referred to as citizens?

A local news agency says that many of those “Soviet passport people” ask officers of migration services to glue in new photos in their invalid passports. Some others decide not to exchange their Soviet passports for Russian ones in order not to pay the state duty of 1,000 rubles ($30). There are people who say that the new passport insults their religious feelings. (more…)

Earliest Image of Egyptian Ruler Wearing “White Crown” of Royalty Brought to Light

By Guest PostJuly 8, 2011Culture, Generalakap, archaeologists, aswan, aswan kom ombo archaeological project, belgium, cutting edge digital methodology, dynasty 0 and narmer, egypt, egyptian crown, egyptian dynastic power, egyptian ruler, egyptian western desert, egyptologists, epigraphic survey in luxor, fifth dynasties, following of horus, gatto and antonio curci, Germany, hieroglyphic annotation, hieroglyphic text, human and divine power, image, italy, john coleman darnell, labib habachi, maria carmela gatto, nag el hamdulab, nag el hamdulab scenes, northern nubia, palermo stone, pharaonic cycles, predynastic jubilee, provinciale hogeschool of limburg, royal court, royal economic control, royal jubilee, royal pharaonic jubilee, the nile, university of bologna, west bank, white crown, yale university

The earliest known image of an Egyptian ruler wearing the “White Crown” associated with Egyptian dynastic power has been brought to light by an international team of archaeologists led by Egyptologists from Yale University.

Carved around 3200 BCE, this unique record of a royal celebration at the dawn of the Egyptian dynastic period was found at a site discovered almost a half-century ago by Egyptologist Labib Habachi at Nag el-Hamdulab, on the West Bank of the Nile to the north of Aswan. (more…)

What Women Want in Bed?

By PravdaJuly 3, 2011Culturea billion wicked thoughts, air force f 1, american neuroscientists, bikinis, bing, cheerleaders, cinderella dresses, CNN, detective agency, erotic, evolutionary perspective, female brain, female libido, Google, gossip about orlando bloom, hawaii, legolas and heterosexual erotica, libido, Lord of the Rings, male brain, mechanism of the sexual desire in women, men differs, movie star, naked photos, ogi ogas, orlando bloom, pornography, romantic theme, sai gaddam, scientific evidence, sexual button, sexual desire, sexual partner, sexual signaling system, socially aggressive, software, vampire stories, viagra, watch porn, women in bed, Yahoo

What is really important for women in bed? Not only men but also scientists have been looking for an answer to this question. There is a multitude of different opinions from both sexes. The authors of a new book, famous American neuroscientists, argue that the mechanism of the sexual desire in women and men differs greatly.

In a recent U.S. book called A Billion Wicked Thoughts, famous scientists, neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam argue that the female brain is much more complex than that of a male when it comes to the choice of a sexual partner. For their findings, they used statistical data from billions of queries related to sex from Dogpile search engine that combines search results from Google, Yahoo! and Bing, their own experience in sexuality and psychology, as well as the latest scientific evidence about differences in brain activity in men and women. (more…)

Youth Cybercrime Linked to Friends’ Influence

By Guest PostJune 26, 2011Culture, Generaladam bossler, american journal of criminal justice, computer hacking, criminologist, cyber-trespassing, cybercrime, david may, digital piracy, eastern kentucky university, georgia southern university, juvenile cybercrime, michigan state university, online and offline, online bullying, online bullying and harassment, online pornography, peer influence, scientific survey, sexual messages, thomas holt, youth cybercrime

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Peer influence and low self-control appear to be the major factors fueling juvenile cybercrime such as computer hacking and online bullying, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University criminologist.

Thomas Holt, assistant professor of criminal justice, said the findings reinforce the need for parents to be more aware of their children’s friends and Internet activities.

“It’s important to know what your kids are doing when they’re online and who they are associating with both online and offline,” Holt said. (more…)

Aspiring Journalist Also Sets Her Sights on Winning A National Pageant

By Guest PostJune 24, 2011Cultureaspiring journalist, beauty pageant, miss black america, miss congeniality, miss gold

In the spring of last year, Yale junior Liane Membis acted on a whim and found it opened up opportunities she never before considered. (more…)

‘America’s Deadliest War Also is Most Memorialized’

By Guest PostJune 23, 2011Culture, Politics150th anniversary, america, battlefields, boulder county courthouse, civil war, civil war sites, fort sumter, gettysburg, kenneth foote, ku klux klan, nathan bedford forrest, north and south, northern forces, pearl street, salem, slavery, south carolina militiamen, united states, university of colorado boulder, vicksburg

As the nation recognizes the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s start, public interest has been rekindled in the war and the numerous memorials and monuments marking historic figures, sites and battlegrounds in states around the country.

South Carolina militiamen fired the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, and over the next four years more than 10,000 military engagements between the North and South took place. In the end more than 600,000 soldiers died. (more…)

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