I was very lucky to watch this year's Perseid meteor shower.
Last Friday, in Marina, my cousin noticed two shooting stars. I vaguely remembered that there was a meteor shower in mid August. We drove about 20km west of El-Alamein, we escaped city lights. We didn't stay long because they were not really showers. They were like 1 meteor every 6 or 8 minutes. Anyways, since this was my first meteor shower I get to …
This post is a little bit different. I would like to share some of my bookmarks and things I found on the Internet.
Few of the best music tracks I found available under a non restrictive license. They deserve a mention here as they made it to my main playlist. You can download them, share or remix some of them.
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Inspired by [thishttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%22egypt+consumes++of+%22&btnG=Search] and ["egypt produces ** of "|http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hs=Q0x&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=%22egypt+produces++of+*%22&btnG=Search] and it was fun.
On the day the tragic attacks on Sharm El-Sheikh, a different tragedy occurred and continues to occur but with a different magnitude. Although it affects the lives of more people than that of the bombings of Sinai, it however usually goes unreported. And mostly unseen.
Mona (name changed) a 10 year old girl was admitted with post-circumcision bleeding at around 2 a.m. that morning.
I was in the pre-labour room and a bed pushed …
Finished phase IIIa of the Research Orientation Course. It was a fascinating experience as usual. This time we had Shawky Galal, Youmna Tareef El-Kholy presenting and discussing with us Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper's philosophy of science. In an earlier session we watched Ordinary Fascism by Mikhael Romm and discussed it with Mrs. Arab Lotfy. Those sessions made the course very special.
Other sessions were about scientific reasoning, data management, tabular and graphical presentation of …
Whoa, a very minor quake happened few minutes ago (19:17). My heart dropped for a moment, I remembered October '92. I guess I am seismophobic. It probably lasted around 20 seconds. Till now there is no information at the USGS website. May be it was so mild that it will go unreported. For sure it was due to the usual secret Israeli A-bomb test conspiracy theory.
Anyways, here is an entertaining list of phobias …
The following is an excerpt from a series of lectures titled The Evolution of Modern Medicine delivered in 1913 by Sir Wiliam Osler. He is one of the founders of 20th century medicine and known to the masses by several Eponyms carrying his last name.
Unfortunately, his statement '''"No such hospital exists today in Cairo as that which was built by al-Mansur Gilafun in 1283"''' is still true today, which is based on an account …
Starting from Thursday 28/07 at noon, in the garden of el sakkia (in Zamalek), you can leave anything to express your feelings about what happened in Sharm el-Sheikh and about terrorism. Just put anything you want, a picture, a poem, a candle, flowers...
It will be open for sometime after this Thursday, so come anytime you like!
بدءاً من ظهر الخميس 28 - 7 - 2005
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"An imminent change in the leadership of the Egyptian security services is expected ..."
"...the most senior national security directors are expected to resign or be replaced, possible along with the interior minister, Habib al-Adly."
I hate them all on a personal level. But I would loved to see them go away with peacful dissent that comes from us. And not from …