خر ژان بوريدان Buridan's Ass مسأله معروفی است بين فلاسفه [۱]، که ارسطو، غزالی و ابو علی سينا، به آن اشاره کرده اند و آن را (به اشتباه) به «ژان بوريدان»، فيلسوف فرانسوی قرن چهاردهم نسبت میدهند. موضوع مسأله اين است که الاغی گرسنه را به فاصله مساوی از دو کپَه يونجه در نظر میگيرند، در قرائتی ديگر الاغی را که هم گرسنه و هم تشنه است به فاصله مساوی از ي ... Continue reading »
Today, we are casting winter from our hearts while everywhere around us earth devours the last tadigh of snow. Today, the lady of the house is tilting open the windows and shaking free the carpets, and the wind is set loose to roam the house like a busy child. Today, the wind makes mischeif. It behaves like a naughty grandmother refusing h ... Continue reading »
Given the continued intelligence failures of the FBI to uncover home grown terrorism, the FBI and Federal prosecutors today moved to endict God on charges of Using Weapons of Mass Destruction by bringing rain, floods and havoc to the Midwest. The prosecutors will also examine whether his mighty's Global Wierding is part of a larger terror campaign ... Continue reading »
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6273761991/es2 Come and hear the echoes of Tehran. An evening full of voices, sounds and melodies from Tehran, composed and compiled by Sahba Aminikia. San Francisco Conservatory of Music Sol Joseph Recital Hall 50 Oak St. San Francisco, CA 94102 Featuring:DELPHI TRIOLIANA BERUBEMICHELLE KWONJEFF LADEURSTEPHA ... Continue reading »
NICOLAI RIMSKI-KORSAKOV Dance of the tumblers from the opera The Snow Maiden Arranged for 2 pianos Performed by SHIRIN & THOMAS ... Continue reading »
Wind will serenade Man’s homesickness Starry-night ignores His dreams And every snow flake Resembles an unshed tear Silence is replete with untold words Replete with undone acts with revelation of undisclosed loves And untold amazements Our essence is hidden in this silence Essence of you and me دلتنگی های آدمی راباد ترانه یی ... Continue reading »
With spring coming and temperatures rising, Iranians can expect the time-honoured crackdown on "inappropriately dressed women". Like every year, Iran's morality police will bundle women who show too much hair or wear too much makeup into minivans, exposing them to a few hours of boredom at the local police station. For a country with the second hig ... Continue reading »
On Wednesday January 9 three members of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), including Sakine Cansız, a founding member of the organisation, were murdered in Paris. There are many theories about who was behind the execution-style killings and most of them relate to conspiracies to derail the current talks between the PKK and Turkey. It could be that ha ... Continue reading »
Dakhma and Sky Burials A unique connection shared only by Iranian-Aryan Zoroastrians and a group of western Tibetans is the method of disposing of the dead, namely the exposure of the dead bodies to birds. In addition to the method of exposure, other similarities include the wrapping of the body in a clean white shroud and placing the body o ... Continue reading »
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