Dagens nyheter har en artikel om Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani i dag:
”Den iranska tvåbarnsmamman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani hotas fortfarande av dödsstraff för påstått otrohetssbrott. Domen om stening till döds hävdes tillfälligt i början av juli, men mycket tyder på att Ashtiani i stället kan komma att avrättas genom hängning.”
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”He made major contributions to dynamical systems and singularity theory, with ramifications in pure and applied mathematics: algebra, topology, algebraic geometry, celestial mechanics, fluid dynamics and optics.”
Read more at The Guardian here
”Researchers’ solution to longstanding mystery could enable better inkjet printing and drug-dispensing systems.”
Read more at MIT news here
”Every cent and penny of money donated via Non-Believers Giving Aid will be forwarded to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders” Click here from Richard Dawkins.net
”The names of those known to be condemned to stoning in the Islamic Republic’s jails, as announced by the regime itself, is as follows:
1-Sakineh Mohammadi Aahtiani
2-Zeynab Heydari 28 years old
3- Changyz Rahimi
4- Robabe
5- Kheyriyeh Valanya
6- Shahnaz 35 years old from (Karaj)
7-Ferdoas B.
8- Kobra Babayi
9- Iran Eskandari
10- Masumeh Sadeghyan
11- Hajar
12- Naghi Ahmafi (Mazandaran)
13- Mohammad Ali Nvid Khamami
14- Sarimeh Sajjadi(Ebadi) 30 years old (Orumiye)
15- Bu Ali Janfeshani (Orumiye)
16- Azar Bagheri (Was arrested and sentenced to stoning at the age of 15 and now is 19 years old)
17- Maryam Ghorbanzade who was recently forced to abbort her fetus in order to facilitate her stoning
18- Khanom Hashemi Nasab (Mashad)
19- A woman called by the initials M KH (Mashad )
20- Ashraf Kalhori 40 years old , mother of four
21- Fatemeh (Tehran)
22- Saba Abdali 30 years”
Read more at Maryam Namazie here
”Knowing the distribution of dark energy tells astronomers that the Universe will continue to get bigger indefinitely.Eventually it will become a cold, dead wasteland with a temperature approaching what scientists term ”absolute zero”.”
Read morre at BBC Science here
”For første gang siden afbrænding af Dannebrog og krisen efter Muhammedtegningerne satte ind, bliver Danmark omtalt positivt i Pakistan.”
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”De risikerte mye da de av kjærlighet rømte sammen fra hjemstedet i Kunduz-provinsen i det nordlige Afghanistan. De risikerte også en hel del da de vendte tilbake til Kunduz etter at Siddiqas familie sa at de skulle få lov til å gifte seg likevel dersom de kom hjem.Prisen de måtte betale for denne risikofylte kjærligheten ble til slutt høy. Søndag ble det unge paret, som begge var i 20-årene, steinet.”
Läs mer i Aftenposten här
”The Erosion of America’s Middle Class…While 90 percent of Americans have seen only modest gains in their incomes since 1973, incomes have almost tripled for people at the upper end of the scale. In 1979, one third of the profits the country produced went to the richest 1 percent of American society. Today it’s almost 60 percent. In 1950, the average corporate CEO earned 30 times as much as an ordinary worker. Today it’s 300 times as much. And today 1 percent of Americans own 37 percent of the total national wealth.”
Read more at Der Spiegel here
It ´s still possible to listen to:
”The eminent scientist Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge will deliver the BBC’s 2010 Reith Lectures. ”Scientific Horizons” will explore the challenges facing science in the 21st century.”
Lecture 1 The Scientific Citizen Lecture 2 Surviving the Century Lecture 3 What We’ll Never Know Lecture 4: The Runaway World at BBC here
”Anna Rydstedt (1928–1994) hör inte till de mest kända svenska poeterna. Men hennes personarkiv finns i KB:s samlingar…..Anna Rydstedt föddes i en liten by på södra Öland. Hon ville bli präst, men svenska kyrkan tillät inte kvinnliga präster på den tiden. Hon kallade sin debutsamling för ”Bannlyst prästinna”. I allt gav hon ut åtta diktsamlingar.” Läs mer på KB här
”Education for citizenship should be based on a framework of human rights and responsibilities and should impart the knowledge, cultivate the understanding, and foster the critical skills essential for individual engagement with society and politics. It should fit children and young people for life in a democratic society underpinned by empathy, human rights and the rule of law.” Read more at IHEU here
”Long a home to Pakistan’s intellectual elite, the tolerant city of Lahore has become a favorite target of the Taliban. The development is causing the country’s leading writer, Ahmed Rashid, whose books are required reading in the West’s military academies, to lose his optimism that the Islamist militants can be defeated.” Read more at Der Spiegel here
”On the one hand, nation-states as they were thought to exist in the twentieth century, and perhaps also in the late nineteenth century are plainly coming to an end, or have ended. (p.35)”
”In Boyle’s new book 2014 – How to survive the next world crisis, he warns that the economic collapse of 2007-2008 could mark only the start of a wider breakdown in international relations, and predicts that by the middle of the decade just dawned, the United States will find itself the key player in a series of make-or-break decisions about the future of the world.” The Daily Galaxy here
2014 – the next world crisis? University of Cambridge here
Professor Nicholas Boyle here
” Total foreign military deaths in Afghanistan have passed 2,000 since the war began in late 2001, according to the independent icasualties.org website. In all, 2,002 members of international forces have been killed since the US-led invasion in 2001, including 1,226 Americans and 331 from Britain, the website said on Sunday…….Just as was the case in Iraq, civilians are bearing the brunt of the conflict in Afghanistan.Last week, a UN mid-year report showed civilian casualties had risen by 31 per cent over the first six months of 2010, compared with the same period last year.”
Read more at Al Jazeera here
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