Pick the wrong line – Asch’s experiment

Error (the belief in the ideal) is not blindness; error is cowardice Friedrich Nietzsche ~~~ Winthrop Niles Kellogg was a psychologist in the field of behaviorism. Just like...

Beetroots and aubergines for Tom Robbins

When I was twenty years old I was into great writers like Camus and Kafka. Chris was lending his father a hand at the...

A brief history of homosexuality

No matter how far-out it strikes you, homosexuality did not exist before 1869, not before the Hungarian doctor Benkert invented it. Up until then,...

The men that turned into ants

Yannis Makridakis is a farmer and an author. He built his hut on mountainous Chios and cultivates the earth; mildly, showing respect to diversity. He...

The murder of Genovese and the crowd’s irresponsibility

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do...

Dancing with the memories of an ephemeral life

All that you touch, All that you see, All that you taste, All you feel, All that you love, All that you hate All you...