Weekend Picks: How “Orwellian” Are We?
Eric Arthur Blair, known as George Orwell, was an English writer whose work was set apart from others' by a sharp insight and significant awareness of social treachery, an extraordinary…
Art & Culture
Popular Palindromes – A Language Exercise
Words or sentences that read the same backwards and forwards have been a popular pastime since ancient times. One of the oldest ones dates back to 79 AD. Given their…
Weekend Picks: Everything You Need To Know About Visual Arts
Visual art might seem like a distant topic to those who are given to books, words, and reading. One simply cannot be focused on all the arts at the same…
Progressive Reads: These Books Will Provoke You To Think More Openly
Books exist to open up doors to new frontiers, and to show us that some things work differently from what we thought before. Now, this list should provoke you to…
Back In The 80s: Best Works Of Milan Kundera
In the 1980s, everyone was into The Unbearable Lightness of Being and other Kundera works, trying to understand what was happening inside the genius’s head. What is the Czech author's…
Techniques For Getting Things Done (GTD)
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a productivity method which, briefly explained, helps you to handle all of the tasks of each day. GTD techniques seem complicated at first glance, but…
Origins of Photography – Camera Obscura
In the era of advanced digital photography, the concept of analog photography seems quite unimaginable and slow, specially when everything needs to be posted at once. Except for those for…
Weekend Picks: Must-Read Philosophical Works
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche The most available and compelling philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche is often misquoted and distorted, but it remains a splendidly unique and immensely persuasive read.…
Weekend Picks: 3 Interesting Time Traveler Books
Time travel is a huge topic right now. This Friday we decided to prepare for you an overview of 3 bloody amazing time-travel books.
Picturesque Streets that Call for a Photo
While traveling, try to get off the main tourist routes to discover new aspects of the cities you visit. There are thousands of cozy and picturesque streets that are like…
Vladimir Zabransky: A Photographer’s Story
Vladimir Zabransky, a teacher and photographer, is among those who remember the origins of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and the way it has steadily grown. He has been making…
Weekend Picks: Three Best Medieval Fiction Books
We have seen a large number of historical novels written and published in recent years. What makes these books different is the fact that they are set in the Middle…