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    Currently, the world is divided regarding access to weapons. On the one hand, we have countries that are liberal  like America, on the other, there are restrictive European countries. Do we need common access to weapons?     The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. On December 15, 1791, this way the American Congress provid ed its citizens with free access to weapons. Over the years, however, weapons access regulations have been modified in different states. Currently, the US is very diverse in the context of access to weapons. In States like New York or California, carrying weapons is prohibited. However, a citizen  must obtain a license from the nearest police station if he wants to purchase a weapon. While in Texas, weapons are sold along with morning coffee without asking for any license. So let'

How something similar between different objects could be found? Could there be a pattern in a huge amount of data, a lot of which elements even are incompatible? The answer is yes, it could. The Ramsey theory explains it in the video below. Please answer the following questions: Have you heard about that theory? What do you think about it? Have you ever met people who believe in such kind of theories? What are the most interesting or funny theories you have ever heard?

Friday I flew to Tel Aviv with my 4 colleagues, with the Ryanair airline. Passport control was waiting for us, three people passed quite quickly, while two of my colleagues were sent back to special services for a more detailed conversation, lasting about half an hour. If someone has a stamp in a passport from Arabic countries, then they have a longer conversation, it was not the case with us. During their inspection, I rented a car. Driving a car around Israel is more difficult than in Poland, they don't always turn on indicator lights and drive quite chaotically. After arriving to the  accommodation place at 11 pm we quickly ate dinner and politely went to sleep. Saturday Around 9 am we went to Haifa to visit the Baha'i Gardens. It took us two hours to get there. Unfortunately, we saw only a small part of the gardens and a sea view - because of the Sabbath the rest was closed. Then we went to Nazareth because it is quite close. There we visited the Basilic

I have always been fascinated by people who are fluent in several or over a dozen foreign languages. Many times I tried to learn at least two foreign languages ​​but with poor results. However, after seeing this material, I understood how many mistakes I made during my learning. 1. Have you ever heard of polyglot meetings mentioned in the material? 2. What do you think about the presented ways of learning foreign languages? 3. Do you enjoy learning foreign languages, if so how do you learn them and how many languages ​​can you speak?

Pope Francis is a 226th leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. He was chosen as the Pope by the Conclave in the 2013. He decided to take the name of Francis of Assisi, known for his revolutionary and progressive views. Peace, attention to others, listening skills are key features of Pope Francis' pontificate, says Acting Director of the Vatican Press Center Alessandro Gizotti in an interview with Vatican News on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the pontificate. I suggest you read some changes and statements made by Pope Francis. Source: https://international.la-croix.com/author/robert-mickens# Pope Francis allowed to forgive the sin of abortion In early September 2015, Pope Francis allowed priests of the Roman Catholic Church to forgive sin of abortion women and doctors who performed the operations during the so-called Jubilee Year, which was to begin on December 8 of that year. According to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, abortion is such a grave sin that

Hidden miracles of the natural world  To study the unseeable  World that surround us is much bigger than we see with our bare eyes. Nature doesn't stop to surprise us with its miracles both huge ones and microscopic size ones. It seems to be infinite. Whenever our technical capabilities are developing, we discover further more complicated answers for our endlessly asked questions.   Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiZqn6fV-4Y&fbclid=IwAR2_BKI7zfy3XcqKLLl8k6fTDQXpWQ5E0p-yt80uTBsMgcwugzmSqoUM8Cw  1. Do you think that observing nature can help us develop future technology? 2. Are there any examples you know in human everyday life inspired by creations of nature? If so mention some of them. 3. Do you enjoy divagations about scientific research of this type?

Bioluminescent Forest  Six Weeks Making a Forest Glow With Projection Mapping   Friedrich van Schoor - designer, multimedia and video artist and Tarek Mawad - photographer, animator and 3D artist, decided to create amazing piece of art based on video mapping. It took them six weeks to bring their project to life. It was mostly inspired by underwater creatures living in ocean depths. They admired contrast made by bright colorful lights shining in large dark spaces. They were both fascinated by natural peace, undisturbed by people.   But definitely the biggest impact on their work took phenomenon of bioluminescence . Bioluminescence is occurrence of producing bright light by living organisms. The most commonly known example of this phenomenon in nature are fireflies. The authors of this project decided to give some features not normally appearing in natural environment of forests. As they said, they wanted to personalise fore

When you look at the night sky, and see billions of stars, do you imagine how big the Universe is and is somewhere in that vastness other life? What kind of life do you think might exist in the oceans of water world, on a land where sun never sets or even a planet like our own Earth? And if the universe is so large, then why haven’t we met anyone yet? Or maybe they are already watching us, but we are not aware of this? Scientists do a lot of research, build huge telescopes and direct them to distant stars, launch probes into space and send signals. Over the past decade, many discoveries have been made and answers to many questions have been given, but the most important of which remains open. Are we alone? In this TED’s talk Douglas Vakoch explain to us why we still have not found anyone and why it is not as simple as it may seem. Questions: 1. Have you ever thought about this? 2. Do you believe that we are not alone? 3 . Are we ready to face extraterrestrial ci

Where are the human clones?  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/337207090819298107/ Imagine Earth in the future, 100 or 300 or even a thousand years from now. Among all future technologies, is there a place for genetic cloning technology? Perhaps you imagine it as in this image, but for now, it looks completely different. Although it may look like this in the future, the question is how far away and at what stage are we now? But what is a clone, really? Simply put, a clone is a n organism that is genetically identical to it’s ancestor. And contrary to the popular belief, cloning is a natural process that is present in nature. It occurs in the asexual reproduction of living beings such as bacteria, plants, and even identical twins. Long Research Path Led to Dolly https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Dolly_clone_PL.svg Dolly was born on 5th July 1996 and at the age of six months, Dolly the cloned sheep was presented to the world amid much controversy. Newspap