Peter Smith
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Publications, Lectures and Other Stuff. Peter Smith teaches courses in the History of Social Thought, the History of Psychology and Modern World History at Mahidol University International College (MUIC), a component part of Mahidol University, Thailand, where he is an Associate Professor. His PhD is in the Sociology of Religion and was completed at the University of Lancaster, England.
Peter Smith
1M ago
I just came across this set of figures in Wikipedia (‘List of causes of death by rate’) which show very clearly the contrast between poorer and richer countries in terms of the major causes of death. I have starred those causes which appear on both lists.
Top causes of death, according to the World Health Organization report for the calendar year 2001:
Causes of death in developing countries
Number of deaths
Causes of death in developed countries
Number of deaths
HIV-AIDS
2,678,000
Ischaemic heart disease *
3,512,000
Lower respiratory infections *
2,643,000
Cerebrova ..read more
Peter Smith
1M ago
Excerpt from a Judgment of the Supreme Court of India dated 24 October 1994 regarding inter-religious tensions:
It may be said that ‘fundamentalism and pluralism pose the two challenges that people of all religious traditions face’; and “to the fundamentalists, the borders of religious certainty are tightly guarded; to the pluralist, the borders are good fences where one meets the neighbor. To many fundamentalists, secularism, seen as the denial of religious claims, is the enemy; to pluralists, secularism, seen as the separation of government from the domination of a single religion, is the es ..read more
Peter Smith
1M ago
Not complete. How many do you know?
2003
anti-cultural
baby bump
Big Rip
binge-watch
botnet
darmstadtium
electronic cigarette
flash mob
iraimbilanja
manscaping
MERS
muffin top
netroots
SARS
severe acute respiratory syndrome
unfriend[128]
2005
didymo
functional calculus
glamping
locavore
microblogging
pre-exposure prophylaxis
ransomware
rock snot
sexting
truther
vodcast[74]
2006
bucket list
crowdfunding
crowdsourcing
Eris
hypermiling
mumblecore
sizzle reel
ski cross[60]
2007
additive manufacturing
colony collapse disorder
hashtag
listicle
netbook
sharing economy[54]
tweet[55]
2008
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Peter Smith
1M ago
Paper presented in absentia at the International Conference on Education and Social Science, Istanbul, 3-5 February 2014. International Organization Center of Academic Research.
Keywords: Universities, International ranking, Grading proposal.
Abstract: Despite their present popularity I want to argu ..read more
Peter Smith
3M ago
By Sprucecopse – Own work, a combination and careful consideration of all sources listed below:For Sami languages in Sweden:https://www.isof.se/nationella-minoritetssprak/din-ratt-till-nationella-minoritetssprak/forvaltningsomradenPite Samihttps://www.sametinget.se/150914https://www.sametinget.se/47481Lule Samihttps://www.samer.se/lulesamiskaUme Samihttps://umesamiska.nu/ (Historic geographic range)https://www.sametinget.se/umesamiskaSouthern Samihttps://www.sametinget.se/sydsamiskahttps://www.samer.se/sydsamiskaFor Sami languages in Norway:https://www.norgeskart.no (Check for Sami placenames ..read more
Peter Smith
3M ago
The 15th century saw the establishment of the first universities in the Nordic world, both in Uppsala in Sweden (1477) and the Danish capital of Copenhagen (1479). It was not until the 17th century that two more universities were established – at Dorpat (Tartu) in what was then Swedish Estonia (in 1632, albeit that this was only short-lived, being closed in 1699 after the territory was taken over by Russia which only reestablished a university there in 1802), and Turku in what was then Swedish Finland (1640 – later moved to Helsinki). Within the Danish realm, Copenhagen University remained the ..read more