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Concrete, in its basic form, is a mixture of cement, aggregate, and water. Due to its strength and ability to adapt to almost any shape, concrete has become one of the most used building materials. The world's dependence on this material just keeps growing. · Concrete has become ...

It's been four years since I wrote The Purpose of Being on beBee. · Here's what I wrote then: · This platform reminds me of an ancient Greek amphitheatre, the venue for orations where the orators spread their ideas, encourage conversation and engage the curious audience with thes ...

Over many centuries scholars have argued on matters of truth. For some, there is a certain body of knowledge that is absolutely true and not subject to interpretation or consideration of context. For others, all truth is relative and subject to change. There are many philosophica ...

There's no doubt that our mind muscles need constant exercise. Keeping your brain active as long as you can is a strong defence against dementia. I know some 90-year-olds who are brighter than many in middle age. I hope to be like them when I am their age. :)  · Our brain functio ...

Geometry is all around us, and we are surrounded by myriads of geometric forms, shapes, and patterns. Every living organism and all non-living things have an element of geometry within. · The above quote is from my article · Geometry, All Around Us, · which I wrote almost five ye ...

Image Source: https://medium.com/@tarighilal/Three days ago, Javier informed us that a new version of beBee is launched. Many of us, the last Mohicans who still write on this platform, were thrilled with that information. The long-promised improved version is finally here! · What ...

Despite being many years on social media, I am still amazed at the concept of online friendships and the people I call my friends but never met in person. · The virtual friendship thing is something I think more about after I have read Aristotle’s theory of friendship. In Nicomac ...

An article I read the other day about when we should end a conversation prompted me to put some words on the screen about a similar subject - when to end replying to someone's comments. · Many posts have been written about commenting and responding to comments, but I always ask m ...

I am a civil engineer and love everything about engineering and architecture. I love watching shows about the construction of family houses. One of my favourites is the British series · Grand Designs, where Kevin McCloud · presents people and their dream houses mostly built by th ...

This short buzz is inspired by a comment by · Phil Friedman. He commented on LinkedIn on the share of my post Being a Victim of Illusory Superiority · published on BIZCATALYST 360°. I thought of his words long after I read them. · A major danger today, especially on social medi ...

I have a life motto that I put on my beBee profile page: The more I learn, the more I realise there's still so much more to learn. That is why I am a lifelong learner. · It is the same for many people who are aware of the gaps in their knowledge, and they want to fill in those ga ...

Writing on social media, one should be prepared for disagreeing with their expressed views and ideas. Some people simply cannot tolerate disagreement. · *** · After publishing · my latest article, How Much Time Is Left for Homo Sapiens?, · in which I wrote about the so-called D ...

I am writing this post as a last attempt to draw the attention of beBee management · to my problem with the Producer. About three weeks ago, I experienced every blogger's worst nightmare, an "Invalid ID" error - a bug or a glitch that caused the disappearing of my two posts from ...

From my first step into the world of social media, I was fascinated by people who regularly inhabit comment sections. I still wonder what drives someone to become · a regular commenter but also why many never participate by commenting. · Some of the beBee regular commenters · eng ...

Commenting on Franci's last · Hive Talk in which she featured Pascal Derrien, I said that Pascal articulates his responses to comments in a simple way using quite as many words as necessary to express his thoughts. I also added that it is one of the qualities I appreciate most in ...

In spite of many drafts · that wait to be finished, I find myself more inclined to write about things people do on social media, particularly on this platform. beBee is a small community in terms of the number of active English speaking users who post or comment regularly. Among ...

One of the last posts of Jim Murray where he elaborated a theory that most of the content on social media is useless, actually prompted the writing of this post. · The world is drowning in useless content. Pointless blogs that are more self-indulgent than informative. ... The 90/ ...

Reading some comment sections lately, I came to the conclusion that beBee is one big hive for praise. · Comment threads are full of compliments. Faithful followers are grateful to writers for yet another great buzz, praising them even if a blog post is just mediocre. Above all, t ...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Split, enjoy drinking coffee as the · Splitians · (Split inhabitants) do. · Croatia’s second-largest city, Split is a beautiful ancient town on the Adriatic coast built around an old Roman palace. Although the beginnings of Split are tra ...