Did you know the word “spam” comes from this Monty Python sketch?
Spam is a word so integrated in our life that email services have a dedicated folder for it, but where does it come from? Surprisingly …
Category: Culture
Gabriel Garcia Marquez accepts his 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature with this amazing speech
On 8th December 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in an all-white suit, received the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his novels and short stories, in which …
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’ Neil is a mathematician and data scientist. UC Berkeley-educated with a PhD from Harvard, she left an academic career to join the finance …
Instead of following your dreams, set up goals
I’m no different to the other thousands of Greek people who left their home country in the recent years. We were unemployed and we made …
Fahrenheit 451 is not the temperature at which books burn; but still…
According to author Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 is “the temperature at which book-paper catches fire, and burns”, but this is not quite right. For some …
Meet typewriter artist Robert Doerfler
I met Robert Doerfler on Instagram a few days ago when I posted a photo of my old typewriter.He “liked” it and, as I didn’t …
Bukowski’s “Girl on an escalator” turned into a short film
Bukowski is probably one the most abused poets on the internet. His verses are taken out of context and are quoted by people who can …
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: “I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.”
I still remember the moment I finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. It was an easy summer afternoon and I was feeling blown away. I could …
My short films
Back to my university years, when I was exploring my creative options, I made two short films, which now may seem embarrassing. Writing won me …
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