Archive - True stories

My new Tolkien blog on Medium

A focus on the legendarium

Sep 23, 2023 •

Loukas Christodoulou

March 2023

How I'm working with slow-permaculture in a Swedish neighbourhood

Trees don't survive without social support

Mar 23, 2023 •

Loukas Christodoulou

December 2022

What not to say in Swedish (and English)

A list of 45 language mistakes

Dec 16, 2022 •

Loukas Christodoulou

November 2022

A short story: SwedePunk

What if Sweden had ruled the world?

Nov 4, 2022 •

Loukas Christodoulou

The limits of storytelling

Where the power of the word ends, and where it may become a problem.

Nov 3, 2022 •

Loukas Christodoulou

March 2022

A new age of religious wars

How the age of fossil struggle could be more like a Reformation than a Revolution

Mar 13, 2022 •

Loukas Christodoulou

I know you’re stressed, so I’m asking you to care less

Please click on my click-bait title to read about how I see stories helping us cope with war, climate crisis and the future

Mar 2, 2022 •

Loukas Christodoulou

February 2022

The big problem with climate reporting right now

The media is adapting, but painfully slowly

Feb 22, 2022 •

Loukas Christodoulou

October 2021

What backgammon taught me about life

It’s time for some game theory?

Oct 18, 2021 •

Loukas Christodoulou

Swedish paradoxes: Loving and hating the modern world

Part 5 in a mini-series about weird/normal Sweden

Oct 15, 2021 •

Loukas Christodoulou

September 2021

Swedish paradoxes: Brutally humane

Part 4 in a mini-series about weird/normal Sweden

Sep 30, 2021 •

Loukas Christodoulou

Science and storytelling

Spontaneous sophistry; supposedly stimulating?

Sep 26, 2021 •

Loukas Christodoulou

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