Highway Stressed Out

Driving to my work place, once I was witness to a road rage, which is sort of common conflicts happening every day in major cities like Tehran. A youth driver was maneuvering in the highway regardless other motorists, listening to a laud, irritating rock music.

Never before an old man complained, honking his horn, had I seen such a rude and disrespectful manner. The young fellow gave the man his finger, holding his left arm in the air out of his car's window. His gesture was enough to make a carefree person mad. Let alone a respectable decent old man.

Surprisingly, the old guy did not take it slightly! And sped up chasing the young man. So there they were, racing in the highway, disturbing other drivers, shouting and insulting about and nerving themselves for a confrontation! In my view, on no circumstances did they have the right to mess the highway up and the young guy was the main culprit of this messy situation.

Finally, the old man stopped the fellow, rubbing his car to the young guy's. And they continued their foolishness out of their cars, rowing over nothing! People, who had been watching this happening, mostly stopped by to enjoy a nice rage! regardless of the traffic increasing at their back.
Fortunately, by then, I could scape without getting stuck in the traffic jam, but I kept asking myself “should it really happen!!?”

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

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One of the most magnificent websites that I have ever seen, ScientificAmerican.com, Unlike all the magazine's website, advertising for their magazine and trying to convince you to pay for the subscription, offers you a widespread range of services on its website; As a matter of fact, the magazine is just a tiny part of their service.

The most interesting part of the website, which I want to present, is the Podcasts section. This part comprises four different categories which are 60-second science, science talk, 60-second earth and 60-second psych.

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Science talk consists of interviews with science experts, but this part, being lengthy, doesn't have scripts and might not be as useful for learners as 60-second parts, in which you can have access to the exact transcript of podcast.

At the end, Scientific American is worth visiting and exploring for either technical and general purposes.