Nodding on the bus

In ancient times, they had interesting notions about the body — mainly interesting because they're so different from ours.
For example, the word phren (φρην), midriff, also meant heart and mind, since the heart is obviously located in the torso, and they believed the mind was found in the heart. Later on, they believed that the [...]

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A Troubled Student

Yesterday I had one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult lessons I've ever had. I have a student, A., who's very quiet, sits at the back of the room and hardly ever speaks. In the first lesson, when we were introducing ourselves, I asked him what he did for a living, and [...]

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4th European Social Forum

I don’t normally go to demonstrations or marches — in fact, I hardly ever go. I went to the big march on Sunday 6 May more for research than anything else, because there’s a march like this in the novel I’m writing. I took quite a few pictures, most of which I’ve uploaded to my [...]

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“Wiretap Dancing”

Talos at histologion (that's Greek for weblog) hardly needs me to plug him, but his latest post is so good I just have to link to it. Lots of interesting stuff here, about how the US was tapping mobile phones before the Olympics, and how EYP (the Greek CIA) continued to do so afterwards, about [...]

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Last pictures from Crete…

… till next time, that is.
When I returned to Athens, I noticed that none of the photos looked good on my own computer. I thought my monitor was good, but the one I was using in Crete was much better.

I took this as a flight of pigeons began to take off. I thought they were [...]

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A response to the screenplay-novel

I have been challenged by Finn Harvor to answer some questions about the state of things in the publishing world, and in the novel in general, a challenge I won't take up in its entirety. The main reason is that I'm not qualified to talk about the publishing industry; I have no first-hand experience of [...]

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