Metaphysics

It is unfair to pin the whole blame on Donald Trump and his election win in the United States on the new political concept of "post-truth." 

“Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς” or in English:

Although torn by civil war, Iraq is the world’s most generous country towards strangers in need, according to a new global index of charitable giving.

It has been a rather popular discussion for decades. Is the European Union a geographic zone or an area of norms and values? With the Copenhagen criteria, the EU partly provided an answer to that question by setting a web of values and norms as the sine qua non (absolute requirements) of eligibility for membership.

At a glance, you might mistake it for something very disturbing, but if you take a closer look you will see it is actually just a very awkward optical illusion.

The picture shows a bald man leaning in to give his baby a kiss on the cheek.

A group of psychologists studying the way we fall in love developed a careful set of questions back in 1997 guaranteed to make two strangers fall in love. All that is required are 36 questions that are designed to create closeness. The study begins with trivial questions such as “Would you like to be famous?” but slowly escalates to more serious and revealing stuff.

An exhibition focusing on Turkey’s history as a refuge for those seeking shelter from conflict and oppression has been unveiled at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou

The Finance Ministry offering trespassers on 28,000 state properties favorable terms to buy them out.