How Imagination Creates Reality
Imagination is commonly understood as the opposite of reality. We typically define the ‘real’ as what can be perceived by our senses and the ‘imaginary’ as what ...
Can you Play Backgammon?
Since you are reading this story, I assume you are more likely than not to have never played — or even heard of — the game of backgammon. I am not ...
A Short History of Humanity in a Geographical Context
In our age of free and wide distribution of information, it saddens me to observe how poor the average person's understanding of history is. A century and ...
The Origins (and Essence) of Racism
Racism in the 21st century is as pressing a topic as ever. In order to understand its essence, discussions on racism often attempt to pinpoint its origins ...
Why Time Feels Faster As We Age: The Perceptional Relativity Of Time
The feeling that time goes faster as we grow older is universal among humanity. “Every day is getting shorter”… “Last year flew by”… “Ten years ago feels ...
The Good Old Days: thoughts on the nature of human pessimism
The good old days, les bons vieux jours, los buenos viejos tiempos, die guten alten Tage, старые добрые времена, οι παλιοί καλοί καιροί... all human languages I ...
Most Striking Contradictions in the Gospels among the Four Evangelists
This article is not concerned with any contradictions to be found between the Old and the New Testament; nor any between the Gospels and other, subsequent books ...
The Abolition of Thought Privacy: The Singularity
We are humans raised under an all-enveloping system of humanistic ideals which has taught us to appreciate and worship our privacy and individuality. A lot of buzz ...
Why do People go Vegan… Should EVERYONE go Vegan?
Veganism, year after year, is growing into an increasingly hot topic. During my multitudinous encounters and miscellaneous conversations with people around the world, veganism, aside from it ...
The Universe: A God in an Egg
Out there... Someplace amidst the vast oceans of possibilities; somewhere and somewhen that where and when do not bear a meaning; in some fiddling, eerie corner of ...
Russia and the Heritage of the Steppe
Russian warmongers have heavily adduced history in justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Not only have they constructed such a fantasy as a historic mission, but they ...
Why did humans develop large brains? – Bipedalism, hands, and data processing
Why did humans, out of all the vast variety of living creatures on earth, become the only species to develop such large and complex brains? Though somewhat ...
The Good Old Days: thoughts on the nature of human pessimism
The good old days, les bons vieux jours, los buenos viejos tiempos, die guten alten Tage, старые добрые времена, οι παλιοί καλοί καιροί... all human languages I ...
Africa: A Sole Superpower In Incubation?
Fervent debates are currently underway aiming to predict the allocation of power in the future geopolitical stage. Economic analysts and futurists forecast the imminent downfall of the ...
The Problem of the Republicans
The Republican senators in the USA voted today against Donald Trump’s impeachment. It seems the demagogue still sways his whip over the party. One wonders why they ...
Microchip, DNA-Alteration, and Other Nonsense: Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories Debunked
The Coronavirus pandemic has presented designers and propagators of conspiracy theories with a whole new cornucopia of lucrative opportunities. The conspiratorial con-artists’ imagination has lived up to ...
Would there be enough food if everyone went vegan?
Many people, vegans or vegetarians, will tell you that if everyone went vegan, there would be at least as much, if not more, food to feed the ...
Why do People go Vegan… Should EVERYONE go Vegan?
Veganism, year after year, is growing into an increasingly hot topic. During my multitudinous encounters and miscellaneous conversations with people around the world, veganism, aside from it ...
The Universe: A God in an Egg
Out there... Someplace amidst the vast oceans of possibilities; somewhere and somewhen that where and when do not bear a meaning; in some fiddling, eerie corner of ...
How Imagination Creates Reality
Imagination is commonly understood as the opposite of reality. We typically define the ‘real’ as what can be perceived by our senses and the ‘imaginary’ as what ...
The Airbnb Culture: the profound impact home-sharing algorithms are having on global civilization
Like many other Internet companies, Airbnb has had a radical impact on the way society and economy function. Impact on property prices worldwide and fundamental disruption of ...
The Abolition of Thought Privacy: The Singularity
We are humans raised under an all-enveloping system of humanistic ideals which has taught us to appreciate and worship our privacy and individuality. A lot of buzz ...
Fight against Globalization??
It seems there is an overwhelmingly prevalent current in human opinion urging to fight against globalization. Not surprising. Human has always shown to be reluctant to change ...
Why did humans develop large brains? – Bipedalism, hands, and data processing
Why did humans, out of all the vast variety of living creatures on earth, become the only species to develop such large and complex brains? Though somewhat ...
