Ancient Greek mathematician, Eratosthenes, measured the circumference of the Earth in antiquity. Credit: Public Domain Theories depicting the shape of...

One of the most insightful perspectives on love comes from the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato in Symposium, where he describes love as a force and a...

Plato’s Statesman contains one of the most mysterious and beautiful myths in ancient philosophy—the story of the two cosmic cycles and the reign...

Theories depicting the shape of the earth swirled in embryonic form in the minds of Ancient Greek thinkers. By Matthew Norman Many pre-Socratic Greek...

Unthinkable: French philosopher René Girard developed a theory of scapegoating. The US vice president has weaponised it

Unthinkable: French philosopher René Girard developed a theory of scapegoating. The US vice president has weaponised it

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, long after his...

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Theodore Vetoyanis, known by his ring name of George Zaharias, was more popularly known as "The Crying Greek from Cripple Creek".