There is nothing bigger or older than the universe. The questions I would like to talk about are: one, where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is the future of the human race? Up until the 1920s, [...]
The Future Hides the Truth
Back in 1929 the brilliant and persistent astronomer Edwin Hubble made discoveries that proved that our universe was expanding, with all the heavenly bodies moving away from each other in a straight dance, like coloured dots on the surface of an ever inflating balloon. Something that is well known today and taken for granted, but [...]
Nicola Tesla
The future will tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his accomplishments. The present is theirs, the future for which I have really worked is mine. If there is one person who single-handedly imagined, designed and invented the modern world, who has never really received the full credit and public recognition that he deserved, [...]
Falling Down
So what is there left to say about this shadow of a country? This Greece of no future, this Hellas of only past?? How did the parents raise their children? How and why did the governments we had for the past 38 or so years -all made up from the same two political parties- [...]
A long overdue re-start
There is something seriously wrong with this blog, i’ve decided… On the one hand i use it as a repository for things that i like and enjoy, all in one place so i can get back to them easily. On the other hand, i use it to post poems -all on a separate page, not [...]
Sarah Kay: How Many Lives Can You Live?
I see the moon the moon sees me
the moon sees somebody
that I don’t see.
God bless the moon
and God bless me
and God bless the somebody
that I don’t see.
Εμείς οι Χτίστες
Ἐμεῖς οἱ χτίστες τῶν μουγγῶν ἐρώτων τῶν σκληρῶν, δὲν πᾶμε ἐμεῖς γιὰ ἕνα φιλί, δὲν πᾶμε γιὰ ἕνα γέλιο· γιὰ τὰ καρφιὰ ποὺ μάτωσαν στὶς ἄκριες τῶν σταυρῶν ἕνα βαρὺ ἀπὸ ἐντολὲς σηκώνομε Εὐαγγέλιο. Τὴ γλύκα βαρεθήκαμε τῶν ἥσυχων ὡρῶν, ὁ Ἀπρίλης εἶναι πίσω μας, βγήκαμε ἀπ᾿ τὸ λιμάνι κι ἀδειάσαμε στὰ κύματα, βορὰ τῶν [...]
Seigfried Sassoon: Aftermath
On this date, the 8th September, 125 years ago in 1886 Seigfried Sassoon poet, author and soldier was born in England. He was decorated for bravery on the eastern front and is one of the leading poets of the first world war. “Have you forgotten yet?” Aftermath Have you forgotten yet? … For the world’s events [...]
Model-Dependent Realism
Physicists nowadays adopt an approach called ”model-dependent realism” when using theories or models to explain how the world around us, from the sub-atomic level to the entire universe, works. The idea is that when a theory or model used is successful in explaining a particular physical situation/observation then we assume that it is true and [...]
Γιατί μου αρέσει ο Παπαδιαμάντης
Ο Έρωτας στα Χιόνια Καρδιὰ τοῦ χειμῶνος. Χριστούγεννα, Ἅις−Βασίλης, Φῶτα. Καὶ αὐτὸς ἐσηκώνετο τὸ πρωί, ἔρριπτεν εἰς τοὺς ὤμους τὴν παλιὰν πατατούκαν του, τὸ μόνον ροῦχον ὁποὺ ἐσώζετο ἀκόμη ἀπὸ τοὺς πρὸ τῆς εὐτυχίας του χρόνους, καὶ κατήρχετο εἰς τὴν παραθαλάσσιον ἀγοράν, μορμυρίζων, ἐνῷ κατέβαινεν ἀπὸ τὸ παλαιὸν μισογκρεμισμένον σπίτι, μὲ τρόπον ὥστε [...]
Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s Top Five Weirdest Physics Facts
2. If you were to go round in a circle at a speed close to the speed of light, you will end up travelling forward in time. 4. Two atoms can be “entangled”. They can be far apart and if you do something to one of them than that instantaneously affects the behaviour of the [...]
How we see the world is more important than how the world is
“What is the shape of the world? What condition is it in? Scientists, philosophers, and kings could offer a never-ending debate on these questions. But there is no real grade for the world apart from the one you assign it. URBAN WORD NYC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching poetry to New York City [...]
This strangeness in my life (by Ruth Stone)
It is so hard to see where it is, but it is there even in the morning when the miracle of shapes assemble and become familiar, but not quite; and the echo of a voice, now changed, utterly dissociated, as though all warmth and shared sweetness had never been. It is this alien space, not [...]
Hands (by Sarah Kay)
People used to tell me that I had beautiful hands. Told me so often in fact that one day I started to believe them, until I asked my photographer father ‘hey daddy could I be a hand model? To which he said ‘No way!’.
Sara Kay: If I should have a daughter…
The amazing spoken word poet Sara Kay on TED: If I should have a daughter, instead of “Mom,” she’s gonna call me “Point B,” because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint solar systems on the backs [...]
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Stephen Hawking on TED
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The Future Hides the Truth
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Hellene
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Take this Waltz (and these lyrics…)
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Pics during Easter
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Nicola Tesla
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Falling Down
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A long overdue re-start
- Easy Poem
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Sarah Kay: How Many Lives Can You Live?
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