Writing about George Floyd and more

TW: mentions of racism, racial hate crimes and suicide The majority of the research community in the field of Anthropology agrees on the peaceful coexistence, 150,000 years ago, between the first humans of our species (homo sapiens) in the depths of South Africa. Their sources also prove that 70,000 years ago, humans started migrating from […]
Christopher Poulos: How I went from prison to Capitol Hill

In a society, or in any society with any of its cultural peculiarities, people share some common ideas. The hunger for perfection, the hunt for excellence, the indiscriminate competitiveness, and our intolerance towards the mistakes of others, has often led neighbors, distant relatives and “known strangers” to reach an absolute dark swamp and to never […]
The path to freedom

I would like to begin with a definition of freedom, in order to grant some short bit of proof about its existence. Thereafter, I would divide freedom into various kinds and I might define them as well. As abstract a word it is, freedom remains as meaningful a word as it can get. Nelson Mandela […]
TED Project Countdown: When climate change knocks on your door.

The flaming Amazon and bleeding Australia as well as the numerous small weather phenomena which afflicted countries of Asia, Africa and the other continents, are few of the examples that were broadcasted worldwide as evidence that climate change is not a problem of the future which we will have to face, but has already knocked […]
Christmas: when all the roads lead home, for some people the road is home.

Count with me these instances of truth, how many Christmas have you felt apart from joy and eagerness, a sense of melancholy. How many times has your spirit been divided by whether we give true sense to these holidays or we have become mere consumers of any kind. Have you ever caught yourself discreetly and […]