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 […]
4+1 Common “innocent” phrases to avoid.
TW: anxiety, eating disorders There are some seemingly innocent phrases, found in every little corner of our everyday life, which in reality are quite the opposite, even managing to make us furious. Phrases that are on the loose, whereas they must be forbidden by law. What makes those common expressions completely unnecessary and boring, is […]
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Surely these past months we all spent more time at home, forced to stay inside, almost incarcerated, due to the world health crisis and lockdown measures. It was inevitable, then, to feel the need to explore creative ways to spend these eternal hours at home. Some chose to focus on their studies, either for school […]
Through the prism
“Life, death and in between Art”. Nikos Engonopoulos sums up in a nutshell a fundamental principle: art is an inalienable part of human life. More accurate, art itself is life, while life is trying to imitate art until death succeeds her. By definition this concept requires the existence οf a recipient – let us not […]
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 […]
Melting point
Stereotypes. If we separate this word into individual parts, we notice that the word “stereotype” derives from the greek words “stereos”, meaning solid, and “typos”, meaning form. When we’re discussing stereo types, then we’re encountering solid forms, so compact and unshakeable that manages to keep its mass constant, from one generation to another. It doesn’t […]
The uniqueness of man: a philosophical interpretation of cloning
As human beings, we are completely different from each other. We differ in appearance, we are characterized by different personalities and temperaments, we are “built” of different experiences, governed by dissimilar mentalities, principles and ideals. Sometimes, in the context of an existential pursuit, we may happen to wonder what it would be like if a […]
The curve that sets everything straight
Humans always acknowledge and interpret movements and stimuli around them, that allow them to react and plan their behaviour accordingly. They hear a lion’s roar and run away, they see their angry boss and hide, they notice their interlocutor smiling and they smile as well. There are many types of smiles. Picture-perfect smiles, smiles with […]
Adapting to knowledge
(this picture is part of the #TakeMyMask movement created by illustrators on Instagram in an attempt to show respect to all health workers and it portrays superheroes symbolically giving away their masks to the real heroes) Technology, Entertainment & Design are what TED stands for. And I wonder how I could create an aesthetically and aurally pleasing […]
From inertia to action.
“Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its velocity.” This phrase makes us understand that inertia has to do with the absence of movement in anything happening around us. “Each force causes a reaction.” Newton’s phrase, one of the most important laws in physics, claims that our every action (force) […]