Book Recommendation: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

“A young woman is trying to rob a bank. To escape arrest, she enters an apartment for sale and holds hostages everyone there: the over-enthusiastic real estate agent, a retired couple renovating and selling apartments to fill the gap in their marriage, two girls who quarrel about everything all the time but are preparing to […]
A ticket to knowledge (International Museum Day)

Trigger Warning: mental illnesses, brutal treatment practices Museums, in their primary, obsolete form, were private collections of wealthy people and families or fell under the notion of institutions of art and weird/rare physical objects. The first museum, by the name of Ennigaldi-Nanna, dates back to 530 BC and exhibited antiquities from Mesopotamia. In honor of […]
Interview with the Mayor of Trikala, Dimitris Papastergiou

“I think with the strength and madness of the team you always find the strength to keep going.” Dimitris Papastergiou was born in 1973, studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, was involved in radio, computer programs, and renewable energy sources. In 2002 and 2006 he was elected municipal […]
The rebirth of the Phoenix (TEDxAUTH pre-event)

“Phoenix: Rising from the ashes” was the theme of the TEDxAUTH 2021 Pre-event, which occurred virtually through a live stream on Saturday, April 10th for the lucky 100 participants that rushed to secure a “seat” through our form. However, due to the incredible response of our following, we decided to share our Pre-event with the broader […]
Final destination: “Eudaemonia”

Quite the timeless and timely concept is that of eudaemonia. A concept that’s been studied by many philosophers from early times. For the sake of unraveling the tangle of its comprehension, we will begin by “fragmenting” the word into its separate compounds: eu+daimōn, i.e good+spirit. According to Aristotle, eudaemonia represented a pleasant mental state, arising […]
Freedom of Speech 101-

It’s striking how in a democratic society, in the year 2021, there must be texts dedicated to freedom of speech. What has gone wrong and in our times we question freedom of speech in the society we have created? Have you ever had difficulty expressing your opinion freely because of fear that the state apparatus […]
And then, what?

We humans are very different from each other, yet many times our hopes and goals converge. This might happen because we receive similar stimuli or lessons from our social environment, but also because the interaction that we have with each other is a necessary criterion for survival. Of course, our goals mainly stem from our […]
Do you dream with your eyes closed or open?

Do you dream? If yes, when do you dream the most? When you’re asleep, or when you’re awake? I’ve always liked words with multiple dimensions. The type of words that harbour complexity, that make you wonder if they’re used in a metaphorical or literal way. On that note, the word “dreams” is truly multidimensional, since […]
The self-doubt pandemic

How many times have we all wondered, “Am I good enough?”, “Am I pretty enough?”, “Am I smart enough?”, “Am I sociable enough?”. These doubts, beginning like this, often develop later into frequent self-doubt and to the formation of the belief of not being enough. Not being enough for this job, not being enough for […]