My faith is restored

It would appear that I overestimated the amount of support Romanian people give to teaching religion in schools. Noise is being made to oppose it, and an (as of right now) unknown group is starting to lobby for the teaching of astrology and alchemy in highschools (article in Romanian). Very articulate, well argumented, and poking [...]

There’s no place like home

… where by “there’s no place like” we mean “OMG WTF is going on” and by “home” we mean “in Romania”.
Fun facts:

The Ministry of Education and Research removed evolutionist theory from the biology curriculum, starting with the 2007-2008 academic year. Along with it, the philosophy curriculum stopped covering the religious views of heathens such as [...]

I’m not dead

Seriously, you should know by now that my blog tends to lapse for months at a time. Anyway, I’ve recently been under a constant flood of spam comments – I’ve now installed the (very cool) reCAPTCHA plugin. So, go ahead and comment, you’ll be helping to digitize books :)
In other news, Dublin weather was particularly [...]

Romania joins the EU

It’s official. Yay!

Stories from Brasov

Romerican seems to be a (genuine) blog of an American that moved to Brasov. Found it by accident and spent a couple hours reading it already. It’s quite refreshing to read about your hometown as described by a foreigne.