I’ve always wondered why in the year 2024 there are still countries invading or fighting each other and why with all the lessons we have learned from history there are still people who want to kill each other. Until I met a group of conscientious objectors at a conference in Athens last week who believed i...
Beer has been a popular alcoholic beverage for ages! Meeting your friends on Friday night for the beer ritual, celebrating milestones with loved ones cheering up beer cans, or just rejoicing with a bottle of beer all by yourself, beer has always been elementary in celebrations, and best buddy otherwise!But,...
It is May, and in Fuenlabrada de los Montes, one of Spain’s most prolific honey-producing regions, beekeepers are worried. The third-generation beekeeper has noticed that the flowers in the fields near their town aren’t anywhere near as numerous as they were even a year ago. Their hives are dying off...
How much is AI actually already in our lives and why are we so afraid of it?Lately, we can very often hear the younger (and not only) generation saying “why write a text or an essay if Chat GPT can do it for you?”…and this is where we imagine future crowds with Alzheimer’s and stress levels mountin...
It’s a wild idea, but recent experiments suggest plants may have the ability to learn and make decisions. Are the claims true and if so, what does it mean for our understanding of consciousness and the human mind?
Listen to this episode of Infinitely Curious, the English-language program of ERT a...
Who wants to live forever? And if we do, could we? Avoiding illnesses and disabilities of old age and getting rid of the signs of ageing isn’t that everyone’s dream? Bathing with the water of life as if one were 20 years old again? Or is it wiser to put up with our wrinkles and accept who we are and...
Life unfolds in the present. The problem is, whether it’s ruminating over the past or worrying about the future, the human mind does everything it can to avoid being present.Like a monkey swinging from tree branch to tree branch, the human mind’s tendency to constantly jump from thought to thought has...
Sometimes articulating a feeling or explaining a dynamic is difficult to do verbally. Here is where art therapy comes into play. It uses creativity and artistic expression to improve a person’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It is a unique non-verbal therapeutic modality to heal the past a...
Did you know that, for thousands of years, sound has been successfully used by man as a powerful healing mechanism? And it’s still being used today with great success.Despite our differences, most of us like listening to music in one form or another. But did you know that music helps our wellness?Music t...
Despite representing less than 5 percent of the world’s population, Indigenous peoples steward more than a quarter of Earth’s land and seas and protect 80 percent of global biodiversity. Studies show that when Indigenous peoples have the right to govern their land, biodiversity increases and forests are...
What is that that makes our imagination go wild? Why are we so attracted to fairytales, superheroes and powers of the unknown? Why are we so drawn to characters derived from history with a fantasy twist?
Live Action Role Players or LARP players are some of those people who love to escape reality...
Is there an objective criteria to define what “great art” is?Essentially, art’s greatness is a personal and subjective judgment, varying from individual to individual. It appears that the value of art is often shaped by a few galleries and museums exhibiting a specific artist. So the decisions made ...
Art transcends and breaks down the boundaries of societies and history and answers this very big question: how do we define beauty in art?If you look at any dictionary or encyclopedia of the past two centuries and look for the definition “aesthetics,” you will find the classic definition that “aesthetics is th...
Ever wondered why so many people believe in horoscopes?Have you ever believed them yourself? Turns out, the better we understand our attraction to quack/illusion science, the more we like falling victim to a colorfully painted idea of ourselves and the future, submit to the power of fortune cookies...
O διάσημος ψυχαναλυτής Ζίγκμουντ Φρόιντ πίστευε ότι η συμπεριφορά και η προσωπικότητα προέρχονται από τη συνεχή και μοναδική αλληλεπίδραση αντικρουόμενων ψυχολογικών δυνάμεων που λειτουργούν σε τρία διαφορετικά επίπεδα επίγνωσης: το προσυνειδητό, το συνειδητό και το ασυνείδητο. Πίστευε ότι καθένα από αυτά τα...
Μπορεί ένα προφορικό λάθος να εμπνεύσει τη συγγραφή ενός νέου τραγουδιού; Μπορεί η μουσική να τιθασεύσει και ίσως να μεταμορφώσει ακόμα και την πιο βίαιη ψυχή; Μπορούν τα τραγούδια να χτίσουν νέους κόσμους μέσα στο χώρο χρόνο που ζούμε; Και πού είναι τελικά αυτός ο χώρος στον εγκέφαλο μας;
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Η παγκόσμια παραγωγή πλαστικών, αποτελεί τη μεγαλύτερη πληγή για τη ζωή και τη μακροζωία του πλανήτη μας. Από τη δεκαετία του 1950 μέχρι και τις τελευταίες μετρήσεις το 2019, τα πλαστικά έχουν αυξηθεί έως και 368 εκατομμύρια τόνους. Περίπου 250.000 τόνοι πλαστικών υπολειμμάτων επιπλέουν στα παγκόσμι...
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Ο έρωτας περιγράφεται συχνά ως συγκινητικός , ή ακόμα και σπαρακτικός - και ο εγκέφαλός μας είναι υπεύθυνος για όλα αυτά τα συναισθήματα. Το ταξίδι από την πρώτη σπίθα μέχρι το τελευταίο δάκρυ καθοδηγείται από μια συμφωνία νευροχημικών και εγκεφαλικών συστημάτων. Οι βιολόγοι πιστεύου...
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