The present paper is an exercise to sociologically recover a story reported in a travel diary of a Western diplomat, who was passing through Moldova, at the end of the eighteenth century, where there are three characters belonging to three different cultures: a Moldovan, a Turkish and a French....

Do we ever wonder how fast our computer actually is? Of course, it says that it is a Pentium at 3.0 Ghz on the box in which the system came but the speed of the CPU is not the only factor in determining how fast our system actually is. The true speed of our computer is determined by the speed of...