Iphigeneia Mariou

It looks pink, feels soft but feels no pain, weighs less than two kilograms and is made up of 100 billion neurons. To many neurobiologists it was and still remains the most fascinating piece of solid matter in the universe. Tony Buzan claims that our brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the known universe which is on...

Language, Crime and Law. Perhaps most people would unconsciously link these notions to a group of industrious policemen puzzled by stylistic and handwriting analyses, looking anywhere for any piece of evidence, in the writers profile, be it a suicide letter, a ransom note or an anonymous threatening message on tape. Police investigations usually...

Strasburg, September 26, 1998: The Council of Europe decides to establish and promote the celebration of the European Day of Languages in a pioneering way. The idea is to convince 800 million Europeans that the linguistic diversity existing in Modern Europe does not hinder communication but serves as the key to intercultural understanding; in ot...