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Are statistical data and scientific results subject to copyright?
I have recently created a map showing the number of books published per year per capita by country in Europe. The figures in the map are (...)
February 4, 2015 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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The horror of the German Foreigners Registration Office
I am not German, but being a citizen of another EU country living in Germany, I never had to deal with any German authority for foreigners (...)
November 16, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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“But humans are at the top of the food chain” argument against vegetarianism
Almost every time there is a discussion about vegetarianism, someone comes up with an argument similar to the following:
Humans are at (...)
September 29, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Nutritional supplements = bad diet?
The other day, I saw the following comment under an article about vegan nutrition:
“Show me a vegan that actually looks and feels healthy (...)
August 28, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Are Witches and Wizards in the Harry Potter universe selfish?
I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in Spanish (for language learning purposes), and there’s one thing that (...)
August 9, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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Are we born with a certain IQ?
It is not exactly rocket science to understand that people get better at doing something with training (although it is almost brain (...)
July 2, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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‘But plants have feelings too’ argument against veganism
Every time I see a discussion about veganism (note that I am not a vegan myself), someone tries to argue that “scientists discovered that (...)
June 22, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Vietnamizer – make your writing look Vietnamese
Vietnamese is an interesting language in that it uses the most diacritical marks of all languages that use the Latin alphabet in their (...)
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The worst arguments against vegetarian and vegan nutrition
The Internet nowadays is full of irrational hate against vegetarians. It really astounds me how some of the arguments miss the point, so I (...)
April 26, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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A new project: A book about witty quotes
I have finished a new project! It is be a book called 333 wittiest quotable quotes. Using quotes in an article, in a presentation and even (...)
April 4, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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