The Aristotle Menu: Eat Like an Ancient Greek Philosopher

3 August, 2020

According to Aristotle, the world was based on five building elements, earth, fire, water, air, and ether. Gastronomy professor Giorgos Palisidis built what he calls the “Aristotelian menu”, based on foods and ingredients of northern Greece, the birthplace of the great philosopher.…

GREECE·WORLD

Donald Trump should lift the arms embargo on Cyprus now

30 July, 2020

Every day the arms embargo remains in place undermines U.S. national security, undercuts the deployed U.S. military, and signals to U.S. allies that Washington is unreliable. On July 20, 1974, Turkish forces—utilizing U.S.-made and supplied equipment—invaded Cyprus, ultimately ethnically-cleansing the northern third…

COMMUNITY·HEALTH

Yoga incompatible for Orthodox Christians

16 June, 2020

The Orthodox Church of Greece has announced yoga as “absolutely incompatible” with Christianity and not a “kind of exercise” since “yoga is a fundamental part of the religion of Hinduism.” The Synodal Committee under Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and all Greece,…

WORLD

Game over for oil… The economy is next

2 May, 2020

It’s game-over for most of the U.S. oil industry and the repurcussions are global Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers is to shut in their wells. That means no income. Most have considerable debt…

AUSTRALIA·WORLD

The coming Greater Depression of the 2020s

1 May, 2020

While there is never a good time for a pandemic, the COVID-19 crisis has arrived at a particularly bad moment for the global economy. The world has long been drifting into a perfect storm of financial, political, socioeconomic, and environmental risks, all…

HEALTH·HISTORY

Leaders as healers: Ancient Greek ideas on the health of the body politic

3 April, 2020

In the current health crisis, we might ask what needs to be cured more urgently: the virus itself or people’s poor sense of moderation. We have seen shocking footage of panicked citizens fighting over the last pack of toilet tissue, our politicians’…

AUSTRALIA·Corona Virus

Australia’s post-war recovery program provides a direction as to how to get out of this

2 April, 2020

As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads around the world, wartime metaphors abound. And, with what amounts to a war economy now in place, attention has inevitably turned to post-war reconstruction. It is self-evident that, without any clear idea of when the emergency will…

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