Blue Stories
Humorous and sad stories, or in search of the ancient mysteries of the Order of the Dragon; of the village’s life or the average man from the city. More or less based on real facts, but all true.
Indian Fairy Tales (Contes de fées indiens)
Bilingual English/French Book (Livre bilingue anglais/français) This book is a representative collection of the Fairy Tales of India. The majority of the tales in this book have been known in the West in some form or other, and the problem … Read More
Anthology of the Best French Short Stories
French Classical Authors Translator and editor: Nicolae Sfetcu Developed from oral storytelling tradition from the Middle Ages, short story was developed and diversified so that it is now difficult to characterize it. It cannot be included into a specific genre … Read More
Anthology of the Best French Short Stories for Children
Editor and Translator: Nicolae Sfetcu The stories for children of this anthology were selected with love and attention specifically to meet the requirements of each child, parent, grandparent, teacher, or educator … Whether it’s a love story, a story of … Read More
Arts
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
The philosophy of art designates both the almost constant interest of philosophers for art since antiquity and a discipline more or less conceived as autonomous since the end of the eighteenth century. For the historian of philosophy Michel Blay, two … Read More
Education
Important Facts to Know About Education in Spain
Spain has invested a lot of money to make reforms in its educational system. According to various reports, the system has improved greatly in the last few decades. Most reforms have been in both primary and secondary education to ensure … Read More
Science
Scientific methods within the context of justification
Hans Reichenbach, who was close to logical positivism, distinguished between the context of justification and the context of discovery. The context of discovery refers to the process that results in proposing a theoretical result, whereas the context of justification concerns … Read More
Business
Google: Dataset Search, a new search engine, for journalists and researchers
Google has recently launched a new search engine, using a large system of public government databases, public sources, digital libraries, and personal websites, primarily aimed to help journalists and researchers in their work. The new search engine, with the name … Read More
Health
Faculty of Medicine of Lille suspends homeopathy diploma
As a result of the controversies over alternative medicine, the medical school through his dean suspended its university diploma of homeopathy for the beginning academic year in expectation of the position of the Haute Autorité de Santé (High Authority of … Read More
Society
Aesthetics and philosophy of art
The philosophy of art designates both the almost constant interest of philosophers for art since antiquity and a discipline more or less conceived as autonomous since the end of the eighteenth century. For the historian of philosophy Michel Blay, two … Read More
Computers
Google: Dataset Search, a new search engine, for journalists and researchers
Google has recently launched a new search engine, using a large system of public government databases, public sources, digital libraries, and personal websites, primarily aimed to help journalists and researchers in their work. The new search engine, with the name … Read More
Recreation
Games of skill or games of chance? And why is the difference such a big deal?
How much is success in a certain game dictated by skill and how much by chance? It sounds like the kind of debate that would rage between game theory undergraduates and statisticians over long evenings, but surely it is not … Read More
World
Important Facts to Know About Education in Spain
Spain has invested a lot of money to make reforms in its educational system. According to various reports, the system has improved greatly in the last few decades. Most reforms have been in both primary and secondary education to ensure … Read More
How much does Facebook lie to us?
In the image you have a screenshot with Facebook notifications. Immediately after notifying that a page has five new likes, Facebook sends a new notice stating that that page didn’t get any new like this week, recommending to publish a … Read More
Clouds
I try to surprise the sunrise on the blue lake; the clouds hide it… Nicolae Sfetcu, 25.07.2017
Romania left out by the EU member states
A passenger civilian plane with Russian Deputy President Dimitri Rogozin was banned from entering the Romanian airspace. In accordance with a European Union decision, Rogozin is banned from entering the EU. He was to join, together with other Russian officials, … Read More
What about English as EU official language, after Brexit?
Many agencies and institutes of European Union (in fact, all of them) use the English as the main official EU language. But, after the UK decision to leave European Union, there will be no other country with English as main … Read More