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Career counseling #6: the IAU/UNESCO list

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My friend Greg recently applied for a position in an United Nations specialized agency (I won’t give the name). As you remember, Greg has lots of diplomas in his field of expertise, from Bachelor to PhD. He also has several years of experience in the same field. These things would definitely get him a similar job (as the one he applied for) in any international organization, corporation, iNGO or research institute.

But there is a catch (again). After he applied, Greg saw a small paragraph in the job posting under “Additional information”. It said: “Please note that this UN agency will only consider academic credentials or degrees obtained from an educational institution recognized in the IAU/UNESCO list”. IAU stands for International Association of Universities. UNESCO, well, you know what it stands for (the culture and education part of the UN). Read more on what the UN asks from you.

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Global Citizen: Food Security

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Supporting the Global Poverty Project: Let`s build a world without hunger. There is enough food in the world for everyone. Locally-sourced solutions will ensure that everyone has enough to eat and families can build their communities without worrying about securing one of our basic human rights. Continue reading “Global Citizen: Food Security” →

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The death of capitalism as we know it

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My wife asked me (I don`t remember the context) if I believe that, in the near future, the multi-nationals will disappear and we would return to a society in which smallholder farmers would be the main source of food. She was mainly referring to an agrarian society.

Brooks Adams (among others) believed (and wrote in his “Theory of Social Revolutions”) that capitalism will be replaced by another system in which the distribution of wealth would change and in which current political systems would be replaced.

thomas jeffersonThomas Jefferson once said that “Every generation needs a revolution”, while Emma Goldman mentioned that “no real social change has ever been brought about without revolution. Revolution is but thought carried into action”.

Here is what I think

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A short Harry Potter post

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I watched last week the entire Harry Potter series and this week I started reading the books. I don`t know why, but I just did it.

Reading the books and watching the movies remembered me, again, why I should just read the books without watching the movies before.

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Reading gives you more details and thrills you more than the movie, although the special effects of a movie makes all these vivid.

One of the details that the first movie missed is how Harry ended up at the Dursley`s and what happened between that moment and when he got the invitation to Hogwarts. It`s an interesting read. Some other details escaped the writers and director of the movies, although you could expect that as even a feature movie is pretty short in comparison with a book.

And you shouldn`t choose the easy way out :).

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Update to Misconception #1: the things which people with chronic illnesses hate

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I wrote two days ago the article on what people with chronic illnesses hate the most (besides the illness itself). See the article HERE.

The main purpose of the article was not to tell people that I have epilepsy or to take something off my soul. The idea was to explain to people what they do (around someone with chronic illnesses) and why they shouldn’t do anymore.

It`s funny: after people found out about my epilepsy, the first thing they did was to behave as they shouldn’t have done it. They sent me sympathy emails, Skype and Facebook messages in which they explained that they support me and that they are right behind me. As I said, it`s funny :). The real thing to read about