What materials make up a life? What role do maturity, experiences, memories, and stimuli play in building a world in which one will spend the years given to them? How does one choose what is worth it from the infinite possibilities of experiences? How far...
Saeed Roustayi's film, for better or worse, is a reflection of its time. More specifically, not only of its time but of an entire generation that finds itself in a world it doesn't understand what's wrong and has grown enough to have the right, the...
In the early 1960s, François Truffaut had already declared war on the traditionalism of French cinema, with the declaration that officially opened the doors of art history to the Nouvelle Vague. As a critic, he had denounced the easy path of cinematic Frenchness, which, by...
The Palme d’Or of 2022 was the magnifying glass that History needs, in order for someone to focus on a very small scale, on micro-societies, and to understand the laws of social development on a larger scale. Of course, being an artistic work, apart from...
Today, when Your life among us has come to an end, I feel the need to write about my own life. How many people, I wonder, have that privilege? To have others speak about them and still have so much to say about themselves? However...
The calendar reads 2020. A major pandemic has touched the entire planet, changing the living and working conditions of billions of people. The "dream" of telecommunications has begun to replace, to some extent, the possibility of face-to-face human contact for many. Processes that traditionally took...
In 1964, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of his writings about his life in Paris during the 1920s. At that time, the future famous author worked as a newspaper correspondent in the City of Light in order to make a living and develop his writing...
Greece produces more culture than it can consume. Perhaps that’s why it often prefers to consume more accessible products, those made by small people for even smaller ones. However, at some point, inspiration emerged from this modern Greek culture for a work that would shock...
It has been 30 years since a day that belongs to the anthology of rugby, particularly remembered in France, but is also among the fundamental elements of the culture that shaped the sport during its epic evolution. On May 26, 1990, Racing Club de France,...
I decided to share a conversation in a few pages, the kind of conversation I would have leaving a cinema, conversations that are missing, along with films that are missing. Can art, as we move away from the great ideological ruptures of the 20th century,...
Usually, when I decide to write a book review on this blog, the project involves a book that I want to share with a wider audience, a new release, a hidden "gem," or simply something interesting that is not already in the awareness of many....
40 years after the writing of one of the most beautiful books of all time, the legendary Cosmos by Carl Sagan, the endeavor to write its sequel is certainly a huge challenge and a very lofty goal. Carl Sagan, with his opus magnum of scientific...
Jethro Tull is one of the groups that shaped the unique and gone musical style of progressive rock. Prog had a uniqueness of variety in sound, with every single group using a different mix of styles and traditions to make their music. Many different combinations...
It’s time to tell a story—a retrospective that has been circling in my head constantly these last few days. Essentially, it is my answer to a “why”: an attempt to trace the cause behind the birth of feelings I had never known before, after events...
There are many reasons to claim that American History, or better said, the History of the USA, is one of the most interesting subjects to read in the dawn of the 21st century. There are already enough data from the evolution of the first British...
There are significant events that happen from time to time and provoke exaggeration in their commentary, called unparalleled, incomparable, and other similar adjectives. However, beyond the commentary concerning the uniqueness of an event in eternity, there is also a simple objective admission. An event can...
Industrial development, the liberation that followed the catastrophic First World War, and the transition from the politically aged societies that produced it to the political structures of the states that emerged after its end, created the need for many questions to be answered—about the very...
Carl Sagan was a brilliant scientist, contributor to great endeavors of humanity in our voyage to what we call the outer space, the exotic worlds that no one of us has ever stepped on, no one of us has ever been born in. However, Carl...
I gave a great deal of thought to the title of this article, which is, in fact, the answer to a question I had been asking myself over the past few years: essentially, “What happened to France?” Eventually, I decided to give this bold answer...
After a long journey of about 7 months, which began at the Vanderberg Air Force base, California, on May 5, InSight is expected to finally reach the Martian surface on November 26. This will be a huge step forward for the scientific endeavor of our...
On September 6, 2007, the most angelic voice humanity has ever known fell silent forever. Luciano Pavarotti, struck by an incurable illness, left the earthly world behind, leaving a vast legacy: cultural monuments clothed in his interpretations, thus establishing a unique and universal reference point...
It was October 9, 1967, when the Elysian Fields of revolution welcomed one of the most brilliant symbols, on the top among all those who shone with their lives the route of humanity forwards. That day, in Bolivian mountains, the idea of selfless fight was...
I’m a passionate of history and more precisely of global history, the ensemble of the evolution of humanity on our planet, from its first steps until our time. Having a scientific background, in what is known as natural sciences, I’m strongly excited to know how...
Earlier this week, the Swedish Academy, announced the physics Nobel Prize laureates for 2018. Among others, French physicist Gérard Mourou, of the École Polytechnique and MIT, obtained the prestigious prize essentially for his inventions concerning the amplification of the laser pulses. However, the respect of...
Have you ever had a discussion on politics, trying to find out what’s going well and what’s going wrong in this world, in its history and finally try to find out what could be a viable solution for humanity’s future? I guess you have. I’m...
In 1980, the most iconic writer in scientific communication and a brilliant scientist, Carl Sagan, while being a professor at Cornell University, decided to have a 2-year sabbatical in order to launch a great project: to summarize the scientific knowledge obtained by humanity until his...
It’s the first time ever I’m so worried. We read the history books and the first thing wandered was almost always how people of these or other times couldn’t understand the tragic effects of political evolutions which lead to massacres, to total catastrophes. Our generation,...
In my opinion, there are two important days in the history of humankind. I don’t know the date for the first earlier one, but I’m sure that the second was April 12, 1961. Our species achieved twice to do a step forward, towards a largest...
I was given a ship in the middle of the ocean I didn’t know where we’re coming from I often ask my companions I’m listening to their stories I’m amazed with their tales I still wonder where are we coming from I still wonder why...
In order for someone to understand art, what they probably need is to find a way to “communicate” with its creator. Many times, different fine arts “join forces” so that they can reveal to a wide audience the power and the essence of each work....
There were two great steps of the mankind, so far, in the history we know for our species and our ancestors. The first, which marked our birth, was that bold step of an old ancestor who stood up to contemplate the endless horizon and conquer...
One of the strangest French elections of modern times is taking place today in the Hexagon, the country of the Enlightenment and the world's fifth-largest economy. Elections held against a backdrop of constantly growing uncertainty about the country's future, its economy and, above all, the...
Several years ago, in June 30th 2012, I started writing in this blog my thoughts, sharing with people who know me and several more, as internet gives us this privilege. This post indicates a new start, parallel with the original blog written in greek. A...
Arizona is truly a dream, a region that offers incredible, almost magical images, difficult to describe. That is why any attempt to capture the impressions of a trip to the state of mythical westerns and the astonishing wonders of nature is a very challenging task....
A transatlantic voyage is always a special occasion. As we leave Europe, we leave behind this really particular continent, as it is true that there is no equivalent in this world and it is our big home. A home not described politically or even as...