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Prespes deal saw rise in public flag display, study finds

The number of national flags hung from the balconies of private homes in the streets of the Greek capital grew sharply in the wake of the contentious name deal between Athens and Skopje, according to a new study which explores the impact of symbolic conflict resolution on nationalist sentiment.

Collective memory in the driver’s seat

Spikes in tension between Athens and Berlin during Greece’s 10-year financial crisis caused a dip in German car sales in areas that suffered from Nazi atrocities during the Second World War, according to a study published in the American Political Science Review.

30.09.2022 / 09:02

Love springs from a house of butterflies

“It’s time for it to come out,” Pavlos Kozalidis says on a Skype video call from his home in the seaside village of Oropos, northeast of Athens.

08.03.2022 / 09:32

‘Gender division is the most fundamental social cleavage’

Laura Roveri will never forget the night she went out to celebrate a friend’s birthday at a Verona discotheque eight years ago. The 25-year-old ended up half dead in hospital with 15 stab wounds – inflicted by her boyfriend.

26.02.2022 / 16:27

Doc festival explores toll of Russian aggression

The human toll of Russia’s military aggression and Putin’s war on independent journalism are explored in films to be showcased at the upcoming Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF).

12.02.2022 / 08:46

A digital safe for cultural heritage

An ambitious new initiative by local and international experts aims to collect, preserve and disseminate the largely untapped and endangered audiovisual heritage of Greece’s Cyclades islands.

13.11.2021 / 18:46

Greek court ruling on ritual slaughter sparks debate over rights of religious minorities

Greece’s Muslim and Jewish communities cry foul as the country moves closer to prohibiting ritual slaughter.

16.09.2021 / 09:24

From the life raft: Refugee images find fitting home

A wrecked yellow dinghy washed up on the rocks of an unidentified Aegean island, wet clothes hung out to dry on the branches of a tree next to the sea, a lost Iraqi passport.

27.08.2021 / 10:20

Experts call for regulation on AI

Experts meeting at a conference in Athens Thursday called for stricter regulation on artificial intelligence technology to ensure it’s being deployed ethically.

25.08.2021 / 10:00

‘Who’s to pay for the societal costs?’

Wendell Wallach is uncomfortably pragmatic about the potentially negative effects of artificial intelligence. “It’s not that we lack ways of ameliorating those effects, it’s just that the simple will to do so is not there,” he says during a Skype video call from his home in Connecticut. Αs a lecturer at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center […]

10.08.2021 / 20:42

Making AI that can be trusted

“Few people in the world know better than I do what it’s like to have your life’s work threatened by a machine.” Garry Kasparov’s admission, in his latest book, “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins,” encapsulates the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to its creator.

09.08.2021 / 21:10

Thinking outside the black box

“I think we got Huxley.” Since 2004, when he launched one of the first blogs in Greece, Manolis Andriotakis’ view of new media has only grown bleaker. Inquisitive, versatile and independent, he has systematically studied developments in the sphere of the internet and social media, and their impact on human evolution. His thoughts on the […]

09.06.2021 / 15:32