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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 15:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the story of a television star.  We shall call him, for convenience, Eliah.  To start, we must make clear that he never had big ambitions in life.  In fact, his mother remembers him as a very timid child whom scarcely made any friends and tended to spend most of his time indoors, in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=776&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All about strings: An interview with Leonard Susskind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonard Susskind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Susskind is considered one of the fathers of string theory in physics. He is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics.This is an edited transcript of an interview with Leonard Susskind (Stanford 13/04/2004) GZ: What are the big questions in physics today? LS: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=755&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Laureate in Chemisty (in Greek)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science and Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an edited transcript of an Interview of Jean-Marie Lehn taken by George Zarkadakis in Athens on 3/05/2006) Ο Jean-Marie Lehn γεννήθηκε στη μεσαιωνική πόλη Rosheim της Γαλλίας το 1938 και στα νεανικά του χρόνια αμφιταλαντεύτηκε να επιλέξει ανάμεσα σε πανεπιστημιακές σπουδές στη φιλοσοφία ή στη χημεία. Τελικά επέλεξε τη δεύτερη και το 1987 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=761&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Christof Koch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Noetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Christof Koch is one of the most eminent researchers in consciousness studies and a collaborator of the late Nobel laureate Francis Crick. This is an edited transcript of an interview of Christof Koch, taken by George Zarkadakis on April 2004, in Tucson, AZ) GZ: How would you define the problem of consciousness? CK: The problem [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=764&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with Steven Pinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Noetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an edited transcript of an interview of Steven Pinker, taken by George Zarkadakis on April 2004 in Tucson, AZ) GZ: When did language appear? SP: All human societies have a complex language and no one has ever discovered a tribe in a remote area that lacks language. Thus, it seems likely that it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=745&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex with robots: loving the mecha</title>
		<link>http://georgezarkadakis.com/2013/04/03/sex-with-robots-loving-the-mecha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mind and machines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a summary of a more extended article published on Aeon magazine on March 26th 2013. Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, delivers us Pygmalion, the Cypriot sculptor who carves the ivory statue of a perfect woman. He names her Galatea, the &#8220;one as white as milk&#8221;. The statue is so life-like that Pygmalion falls in love with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=667&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greece and Europe: a troubled relationship</title>
		<link>http://georgezarkadakis.com/2013/03/23/greece-and-europe-a-troubled-relationship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexius Comnenos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Schism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek Revolution 1821]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece and europe from George Zarkadakis On March 25th 2013 I was invited at the Catholic University of Lille to give a lecture on Greece and Europe (see my slides above). My lecture explored some of the ideas in my Washington Post article. March 25th is Greece&#8217;s National Holiday commemorating the Uprising against the Ottoman [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=724&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The ocean in the sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mission Diaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early universe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We dived at approximately moondown. The navigator explained how up was down &#8211; and vice versa &#8211; and that in the new medium of exploration common perceptions would be challenged. Forget what you know, he said. Forget we did. The familiar ripples on the fabric of the ocean floor was the first impression. It could [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=715&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary narratives and global warming</title>
		<link>http://georgezarkadakis.com/2013/03/12/literary-narratives-and-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory of narratives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Passage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My talk (in Greek) at the Onassis Foundation in Athens,where I discussed my novel &#8220;The Passage&#8221; and the relationship between literary narratives and the contemporary understanding of global warming. Filed under: Climate, Theory of narratives, Video Tagged: global warming, The Passage<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=704&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can robots reproduce?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Zarkadakis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mind and machines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is rumored that when Descartes left France to work as the tutor of young Queen Christina of Sweden he was asked by his royal student what could be said of the human body. Descartes answered that one could regard as a machine; whereby the Queen pointed to a clock and ordered him to “see to it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=georgezarkadakis.com&#038;blog=14054922&#038;post=661&#038;subd=zarkadakis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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