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Prologue I have always been skeptical of the viability and potential benefits of AI technologies. This is because they are primarily war technologies,...
Prologue A Greek friend from Canada, Dr. Nikos Chrystodoulou, sent me an article about an American company, Cambrian Nuclear, working with Athlos...
Prologue Pollution harms and often kills. It’s almost entirely anthropogenic, meaning, it is a result of human activity. Pollution is bad and...
Prologue Mikis Theodorakis was an internationally recognized Greek symbol of resistance to capitalism and foreign influence in Greece. When I left...
Prologue Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an extremely interesting, if dangerous, technological, economic and political issue. The Greeks of Homer’s...
Prologue: ancient and modern uses of technology There’s a tremendous civilization gap between the robots credited to the Greek god of metallurgy...
Prologue Global climate temperature is a key factor in the survival of the Amazon rainforest, indeed the survival of humans, civilization and the...
Prologue According to Homer, Chimera was a hybrid monster made up of a lion, the head of a fire-breathing goat sprouting on the back of the lion and a...
Political history explains the steady decline of the 200-year old modern Greek state. In the 4th century, the Roman emperor Constantine ditched Greek...
Prologue: Trump and the Pope The US-Israeli war against Iran / Persia did more than rain bombs on Iran, Lebanon and throughout the Middle East. It...
Prologue: threatening civilization Pope Leo XIV criticized the delusions of omnipotence that US and Israel display in fighting their illegal and...
Prologue Starting with the Trojan Wat in the early thirteenth century BCE, the Greeks embarked on a gigantic Grexit that lasted for centuries. They...
Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus, King of Thebes. After the dramatic end and disappearance of her father who had blinded himself, her uncle Creon...
Prologue I recently came across with an unpleasant memory from the past – chemicals that last so long in the environment that are now known as...
The war of the Trump administration and Israel against Persia / Iran is bringing humanity ever closer to catastrophe. Both Israel and Iran are...
On October 16, 2025, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that as long as nuclear weapons exist, they should never be...
On December 7, 2009, the Obama administration accepted the endangerment finding that, finally, brought fossil fuels in the power of the rule of law....
President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the legal bedrock for...
Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager...
Petroleum is the fossil remnant of extremely ancient forests. Its discovery in mid-19th century sparked the rapid industrialization of Western Europe,...
Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October 2025, I was on the...
Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North...
Prologue Writing about climate change / chaos in 2025 is like writing fiction or describing Eris / strife. Not that climate chaos is unreal or that...
Threatening Greek peasants On April 15, 2025, the appointed president of Greece issued an order that is bound to have serious, nay, potentially...
Prologue I remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University in Washington, DC. Among...
The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and land, including...