Iranian’s height variation
Just read some bits of an article, “Secular Trend of Height Variations in Iranian Population Born between 1940 and 1984” and thought to share few of its figures here.
The trend of height in Iran classified by gender according to some prominent historical events:
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Spatial distribution of height and its variation over five decades in Iran. (The height percentiles were calculated from those born between 1980-84):
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I was born in 1983 and am 172cm, spot on!
Last day in Australia
Today is my last day in Melbourne, Australia. I am in Swinburne uni library right now studying Marketing Planning which I have its exam in three hours. The exam will finish at 4pm and I will rush straight to the airport to fly to Tehran at 7pm. I’m going to be in Tehran for a week and then will go back to London.
While living here, ten months, I got the chance to visit Sydney few times, Perth, Tasmania (Hobart, Bruny Island, Port Arthur, Norfilk, etc), Geelong and Great Ocean Road. I also wanted to go to Queensland and see the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as it has apparently the largest and best coral reef in the world, but didn’t.
One of the aspects of the image I had before coming to Australia was that I’m going to see kangaroos, wombats, koalas and other local animals in the city roads and every where, which was wrong. If you want to see those animals and you live in Melboure, Sydney, etc, you have to go to the zoo! But when we went to Tasmania few weeks ago, I finally touched the image I had of here over there. Really great nature and outlooks, lots of wild animals in the cities’ surounding roads, beautiful sheeps, kangs, wombats and all I thought of here. I actually ran over a Kangaroo myself while driving in Hobart one night! If someone comes to Australia and doesn’t go to Tassie, they effectively haven’t seen Australia!
Lots of good things happend here for me; baby, new friends and colleagues, different experiences, good job, lots of fun, extremely busy life, etc and etc. I’m taking back mostly good memories of Australia and am hoping to visit her again some time in the near future.
A quick review on Shirin Ebadi’s “Iran Awakening”
I just finished reading “Iran Awakening“. The book is somehow Shirin Ebadi’s autobiography written by herself and translated by Azadeh Moaveni.
Briefly, she has tried to produce lots of black and white images of Iran by describing a bit of the crisis happend to the benefit of showing a dark picture of the country. Yes, some parts are true, but skimpy without other bits which were happening in parallel. The book I have has a different cover and sub topic comparing to the one now in the market, not sure why she changed it.
It is also interesting to read one of the last paragraphs of the book where she somehow admits that she has not explained stroies completely! She’s a lawyer and knows what to do and how to do it…
If you read the book, do not just believe most of it, supplementary reading is a must. The book does not say the whole truth happend. Something like Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis“, which does the same thing.
