This is how some people in this country look to women (Arabic). It makes me sick. Don’t read it.

Men who difficulty listening to women have a scientific excuse. According to a recent study, the female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to women having greater natural ‘melody’ in their voices. That’s why men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism.

As much as I was happy when reading the news of release of the three reformists and their lawyer, I was sad when I reread the reasons they were jailed for. Let’s remember that they were accused of “calling for a constitutional monarchy, and using westernized terminology when asking for political changes in the Kingdom.”

Jo explains why she will never live here, and then why she just might stay here. Dear, it’s something called hope. We all reach this state, but then; a little ray of light might change everything (almost everything) to us.

Why do people laugh? Pretty hard question, right? One theory says that people laugh to assert that they are on a level equal to or higher than those around them. According to this theory, scientists think that Women laugh much more in the presence of men, and men generally tell more jokes in the presence of women. Also, Men have even been shown to laugh much more quietly around women, while laughing louder when in a group of men.

Naif has posted some pictures for the changes on the signboard in the streets of Riyadh. Most of these signboards look familiar to me because my apartment is located on King Abdullah Road (formerly known as Prince Abdullah Road). I remember that some of my roommates used to make a mistake by saying “we live on King Abdullah Road.” Well, it’s not a mistake anymore.

When Farooha introduced Prometheus to the Saudi bloggers community as a pleasant surprise, she was right indeed. The tolerance, open-mindedness, and structural criticism are all indications for good writer. Prometheus has all that and more. He is one of my favorite bloggers, and someone that you all should keep an eye on.