How would people react if Starbucks bought their favorite local coffee shop? Or if Halliburton bought Greenpeace? Or if the Rebel Alliance… allied itself with the Galactic Empire? Judging by the outburst of the online scientific community one would think all three happened at once when, on April 8th 2013, […]
Vangelis Simeonidis
My favourite Cavafy poem is a slightly obscure one. It has always spoken to me on a deeply spiritual level. As much as you can by C. P. Cavafy Even if you cannot shape your life as you want it, at least try this as much as you can; […]
Hi. My name is also V. It’s not really. That’s not even a real name! My name is Vangelis. Unless you actually check my ID, which says that my name is Evangelos. It is about at this point that people either think I am pulling their leg, or just give […]
or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the changing meanings of the “V for Vendetta” mask. In a BBC feature today, the Man himself, Mr Alan Moore, discussed the emergence of the Guy Fawkes mask that is my profile picture-sake (on facebook and google) and pretty much […]
This is the best and most famous poem by Cavafy. Once, in London, I saw this poem pinned on the wall in the home of a French girl I was visiting. In a Spanish translation! Apparently, a Colombian guy had given it to her and told her it was his […]
It is a question I have to answer almost on a daily basis for quite a while. Everywhere I go, as soon as people find out I am Greek, they ask: what is going on with Greece? There is strong pro-European sentiment in Greece, despite the trouble. In case you […]
The city by C. P. Cavafy translated By Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried like something dead. […]
In early 2010, Sydney Brenner, wrote an article for the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society entitled ‘Sequences and consequences’. In this article, Brenner claims: The new science of Systems Biology […] will fail because deducing models of function from the behaviour of a complex system is an inverse […]
Seattle skyline I probably should have written this entry some time ago, but I guess I have been a bit preoccupied with everything that has been happening lately… In any case, here is the worse-kept secret ever: I am leaving Manchester and the UK! I have accepted a job at […]
In my last post, I tried to explain my work as simply as I could. This is a notoriously difficult task for people in research: we get so caught up in the technical terms and the complexities of our work on an everyday basis, that we find using simple language […]