According to the Bureau of Justice, there were nearly 5 thousand people killed by the police between 2003 and 2009 globally. While most cases have been registered in poorer parts of the world, police misconduct and police brutality are universal problems known to the developed countries as well. Apart from… Read More →
Dating industry, similarly to gaming, is huge. If one looks at the statistics, the numbers are impressive: eHarmony has 16.5 million users, Match.com has 23.5, and OKCupid has around 30 million with an average of 1 million unique users daily. Last year, a mobile dating app called Tinder invaded the… Read More →
According to different estimates, from 5.5 to 20 million people fell victims to Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. Pacific War was a major military conflict in Asia which, like Germany’s invasion of Europe, affected not just the countries directly involved in the war, but those economically and politically… Read More →
The International Opium Convention made marijuana, otherwise known as particular Indian hemp or hashish, illegal across the world in 1925. By January 2015, there were eight countries with liberal laws towards cannabis, including some US states, such as Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington. At the same time, Cuba, Greece, and… Read More →
Around 6.6% of the officers receive complaints for misconduct every year. This might seem as a drop in the ocean but it is from 6 to 7 police officers of every 100 who have exceeded their authority. It becomes more shocking when we learn that every day 3 American citizens… Read More →
Incidents like the one in Ferguson have certainly attracted a great deal of attention to the problem of police brutality in the last couple of years; but how much was actually done to prevent further tragedies of this kind? Are we much better off than before? It depends on what… Read More →
The United States seem to be rather quickly becoming a more comfortable place for cannabis users – the laws decriminalizing the possession and usage of recreational marijuana are being passed regularly. Delaware recently became the 18th state to pass legislation in this respect, and the situation will probably develop in… Read More →
Most scholars agree that Treaty of Versailles with its extremely harsh terms for Germany and Austria-Hungary greatly contributed to the future World War II; but in the end responsibility for the greatest conflict in human history lies on one man: Adolf Hitler. By the end of the 1930s he didn’t… Read More →
Recent tragedies involving police officers killing unarmed blacks, like the ones that happened in Baltimore and Cleveland, have attracted a great deal of public attention – both to the events themselves and to what many perceive as an epidemic of police brutality. It seems to sweep over the United States… Read More →
We all have fears. Some of them are rational and are a necessary part of our survival strategy. Others prevent people from doing a lot of things. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that these other, irrational fears are what keeps most people from achieving greatness – whatever one… Read More →
