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 […]
The pop culture empire
We often use the term pop culture, or popular culture, in our vocabulary, sometimes to impress our interlocutors with our knowledge, and other times to point out the most important issues, which concern humanity on a global scale. However, most of the time, we are not even aware of its huge impact on our lives. […]
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 […]
Shall we dance?
April 29th is a day dedicated to dance. A day existing to remind us that “everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” Dance is an art form which demands at the same time physical, mental and emotional activation. It swings between the search of the ultimate external perfection and the spontaneous natural expression. Dance’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
5 TEDx talks, 5 Reconstruction talks
Many times in our lives we feel the need to make a new beginning, give ourselves a second chance. This change can be either small or large, but little does it matter. What is important is our will to achieve it. But what prevents us from making this decision? We are socialbeings, that is, thatwe […]
