Author: Biljana Ognenova
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Watch ‘Togo’, The Movie (2019): It Will Be the Best 2 Hours You’ve Spent During the Coronavirus Crisis
Scrolling hypnotically through my social media feed in search of some common sense in the current panic-ridden world, I came across a friend who shared how his family filled the self-quarantine hours. His suggestions weren’t altogether alike the examples of parents who do scavenger hunts and agility games to entertain anxious (read: energy-driven) stay-at-home children.…
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“Dodging Satan”: How Not To Raise a Catholic (Book Review)
Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood by Kathleen Zamboni McCormick My rating: 5 of 5 stars If we could open up a contest about the world’s most Catholic family, Bridget’s Italian-Irish concoction would definitely top up the rating. The clever girl is raised by the tight glove of religion from both…
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The Alpinist Dog Who Got Lucky After Being Stranded and Freezing for 24 Hours
There is an unspoken pact between humans and dogs: collaborate, cohabitate, and support each other. Many of us have opened their hearts and souls to understand this intuitively. Some are not there yet. But that’s not so important: what matters the most is not which side of awareness you are on, but the depth and…
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Christmas Dog Adoption: Pawsome Enthusiasts’ Efforts to Find Homes for Stray Dogs
In a modest but heartwarming photo exhibition, the passionate volunteers from Pawsome Enthusiasts yet another time tried to find forever homes for homeless dogs in Skopje.
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How to Understand Stray Dogs
Understanding stray dogs is not easy, mostly because we don’t understand dogs and animals in general. Another reason is that we don’t fully understand ourselves and view the world from an anthropocentric perspective. Rather than being helpful, our human-centered approach is often an obstacle to understanding stray dogs. Although we think we know a lot…
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Dog EQ: Your Dog Can Read Your Face, Much Better Than You Think
Dogs use their dog EQ to read and understand your facial expressions and adjust their behavior. By looking at how dogs behave around humans and other dogs, we should admit our emotional intelligence defeat, at least to the emotional gradient set by dogs.
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Small Dog Syndrome: When Big Attitude in a Tiny Body Causes Trouble
If you have a Yorkie, a Chihuahua, or a Maltese, you may have noticed the weird behavior called small dog syndrome. Small dog syndrome (SDS) is about small dogs with a big attitude. Smaller breeds suffer from this false size perception syndrome which causes them to lose discipline, bark, jump on people, disobey orders, and…
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Dog is Love: The Science-Backed Fact about Dogs We Have Intuitively Known Forever
Dogs are capable of unconditional love. Many of you know that without reading exhaustive science journals. It is intuitive awareness gathered in situations when you accidentally step on a dog’s paw, drowning in guilt only to see that your dog has forgiven your poor orientation skills before you have forgiven yourself. For most of us,…
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“The Artist’s Way” By Julia Cameron: Why Every Writer Should Read This Book (Review)
Thanks to Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” I became capable of seating with hours at the desk and enjoying the process. I also learned how important wellbeing is and that wellbeing and safety should be a part of work, flow, and happiness.
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Emotional Contagion: How Your Facebook Comments Feed Turns Into a War of Words
Emotional contagion on social media.
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“The Inconceivable Truth: A Gutsy Memoir about Defining and Surviving Childless Womanhood in the 21st Century” by Nicki Fenthum (Book Review)
There was a moment in time when I didn’t quite understand why people decide to share their stories in so many personal details. I thought – why would someone want to expose to the bare bones to random strangers? Then it dawned on me – they are not doing it for themselves or, rather, they…
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Mathematics – the Imperfect Language of the Universe
How can the self-restrictive rules of science damage its very core and why it’s not good to speak a single scientific language.
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9 Lessons About Love I Picked Up from “Mating in Captivity” by Esther Perel (Book Review)
What Esther Perel is talking about in “Mating in Captivity” is not the subject of serial affairs. She talks about a more complex problem: the affair that rocks an otherwise stable marriage.
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“The Art of Cyber Conflict” by H. Sienkiewicz (Book Review)
No war can be raised to a state-of-the-art level. Art must be beautiful, in the sense of producing a renewed faith of acceptance and I’m not sure war could ever do that. “The Art of Cyber Conflict” is about the new types of wars being led in the digital sphere. Yet despite the absence of…
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How to “Make Your Own Neural Network in Python” (Book Review)
If you’re a developer and expect deep expert insights about machine learning and neural networks, this “Make Your Own Neural Network in Python” review is not for you. But if you are a tech addict and like reading and learning about new software applications, then this will most likely hit a spot. If you like…
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“Chasing Mercury” by September Williams [Book Review]
“Chasing Mercury” ticked all the right boxes of what I consider an amazing book deserving of a high rating. It has everything that I want from a good read – memorable characters, a plot that edges on the personal, the collective, and the political, and a curious take on what seems like usual human destinies,…
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“Jobs for Robots” by Jason Schenker (BOOK REVIEW): How to Make Yourself Irreplaceable in the Age of Robotics
Informed in one way or another, we all await for the faraway future to welcome robots on a grand scale. But robots are coming faster than we can tell. In fact, robots are already here and now it’s the best time to start preparing yourself for what once seemed only a distant possibility on the…
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“Call Me Pomeroy” by James Hanna [Book Review]
I found this book incredibly hilarious, at moments hysterical and riotous in more than one sense of the word. That’s the usual way of the book’s author. It is not the first book I’ve read by James Hanna, but I somehow ended up writing the first review about it. Hanna has a knack for writing…
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“Women Who Run with the Wolves” by C.P. Estés: Reclaiming Our Instinctual Nature [BOOK REVIEW]
Clarissa Pinkola Estés brings us back to the story of the wild woman, a story about songs, bones, and wolves. A remarkable storyteller, Jungian analyst, and healer who integrated the wisdom roots of her Mexican and Hungarian ancestry and heritage into her healing work, the author clears ages of cobwebs and removes the debris of…
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The Red Book by C.G. Jung: A Personal Journey into the Collective Unconscious (BOOK REVIEW)
The first time I saw a copy of the Red Book by Carl Gustav Jung, it was in a Zurich bookstore six years ago. I remembered I was mesmerized by this edition, which was a hardcover version of the original, with incredible images and some unusual format. But it was around $400 at the time,…
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Chapter 1 – How Isaac Got His Name
Isaac was standing on his favorite park bench, sniffing around to check the surroundings. He had never thought why his name was Isaac. “It’s not a typical dog’s name”, a thought crossed his mind. But he loved it. One day, when he was visiting his neighborhood butchery, he overheard a mother telling a biblical story…
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