May Day

Over a century and two decades have passed since the very first Labor Day in the US (with about 300,000 participants), on May 1, 1886. Incidentally, there are three countries which chose a different day instead of May 1st to represent Labor Day, one of which is the US.

مغالطه

  برای اینکه بدانیم خلط گفتار (مغالطه) چیست، نخست باید تعریفی از مناظره داشته باشیم

Your Private Information Is Public Now!

          Our privacy is in jeopardy! Your images are recorded in 95% of cross sections of major cities. You can receive a scanned copy of your own picture at any major retail store you shop. If your boss is not constantly on your shoulder, perhaps there is a closed captioned camera in your office! Look at some funny and interesting images on some e-mails you receive. How many of them are as a result of candid or hidden cameras without the subjects knowing about it? These are all for fun and entertainment, or we may say they are necessary and they do not harm anyone. However, have you ever received a traffic ticket in the mail that shows your pictures (front, back, and sideways) along with a ticket for the red light you crossed? Do you see how clear those pictures are?!

Fallacies

          In order to understand what a fallacy is, one must understand what an argument is. Very briefly, an argument consists of one or more premises and one conclusion. A premise is a statement (a sentence that is either true or false) that is offered in support of the claim being made, which is the conclusion (which is also a sentence that is either true or false).

Zarathustra

Due to lack sufficient documentation, the exact date of Zarathustra’s birth is not clear. After the Arab invasion, almost all the existing written words were destroyed by the invaders. Therefore, historians have to base their search on relics of the past, antiquities, and any remaining documents written afterwards. However, as of yet they have not come up with an unanimous date. Some historians relate Zarathustra’s appearance to the fourth millennium BC, but the majority of the researchers record his birth in the middle of the sixth hundred BC, and his death to have occurred in 583 BC. The place of his birth is supposed to be either in the present state of Azerbaijan (Athropaten), or in south-east of Iran. They believe that he was killed on the steps of a temple in the city of Balkh, on 583 BC.