Below are First reviews of my 2nd book (Directionality of Humankind’s Development. History), posted on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219329697-directionality-of-humankind-s-development-history?#CommunityReviews). Note Readers are very different and a range of opinions on a same book usually broad. Here are two opposite views on my book. Positive – “Just to have all of this information laid out like this is […]
Since February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine with war, the battlefield has changed radically. The text below is from https://hvylya.net/analytics/282191-tri-dnya-v-okope-na-nule-ili-na-zapadnom-fronte-bez-izmeneniy-po-ukrainski (Alexander Nezvisky, fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, May 11, 2023) in my translation from Russian. The longest three nights and two days of my life so far Recently I visited “zero” for […]
It is infrequent for the world to witness a fast birth of a nation. The text below is from https://hvylya.net/analytics/250475-narodzhennya-naciji (Lyubomyr Shavalyuk, April 9, 2022); my translation is from Ukrainian. Let’s listen to the testimony from Ukraine. War brings many disasters It destroys cities, property, people, and destinies. But at the same time, it burns […]
This is the fourth part of my review, “Ukraine Gives World a Chance.” In the third part, we took a look into which type of war Russia started against Ukraine. In this part, we will discuss what is at stake for Ukraine, Russia, and the world in the 2022 Russian war against Ukraine. How Ukraine […]
This is the third part of my review, “Ukraine Gives World a Chance.” In the second part, we discussed the “imperial slave and master” mentality of people in Russia. In this part, there is an explanation of which type of war Russia started against Ukraine. Nine Centuries of Russia and the West For a long […]
This is a second part of my review, “Ukraine Gives World a Chance”. The first part had “What is going on in Ukraine and around now?” and “Kyiv is older than Moscow by Hundreds of Years” sections. In this part, the “imperial slave and master” mentality in Russia is explained. The “imperial slave and master” […]
My history notes were designed not to touch on current events. However, the Russian aggression in Ukraine blew up everything. Below is my understanding of the situation. The events are so close and so fluid that it is impossible not to provide some interpretation of events. That is totally different from the approach I used […]
. History is the study of past events. However, the relations between past, present, and future were and are opened for interpretations. Those interpretations are based mainly on what the time is – is it cyclic or linear. Let us look briefly into this fundamental distinction. Is there Orderliness in Time? We perceive time […]
Abstract. There are over 20 million users in ResearchGate (RG). ResearchGate uses internal metrics, RI and Total Research Interest (TRI), to measure how the authors’ peers assess their work. Formulas used by the RG team for those metrics are not published. This article proposes a simple model of calculating Research Interest (RI) and getting results […]
My book (“Subsurface History of Humanity: Direction of History” by Victor Torvich) is available as a paperback, Kindle book, and audiobook on Amazon, and as an audiobook on Audible and iTunes. The audiobook comes with a supplemental digital booklet. The book is for readers with 7th grade or higher education. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED if the world is moving in the […]