Whenever a new disease, plague, epidemic or even pandemic makes the rounds, society plays out the same story. Whether it is the corona virus, its now somewhat old-fashioned relative SARS, swine flu or bird flu … the process is now well known. Panic for a while (sometimes more appropriate, sometimes
Efthimios Karahisaridis, known as papa-Efthim, was born in 1884 in the area of Ankara. He was ordained a priest in 1941 to avoid conscription into the notorious Labor Orders. Although married and the father of five children, after his ordination he changed his name to Euthymios from Pavlos. Aft
American researchers, who relied on an improved tree-dating technique, announced around 1560 B.C. as the most likely date for the powerful Minoan eruption of the volcano of Thira (Santorini). The dating of the explosion, one of the most powerful ever to have occurred on Earth, is a major challeng
Logically, Charles Darwin did not wake up one morning in 1859, after a night of dreamlike revelations, and start writing The Origin of Species . Science, like evolution, is always based on the past. Darwin, in addition to using the evidence he gathered on his expedition on the Beagle voyage in the 1