Kiwi Hellenist

Video review/fact-check of the IBM short film ‘Eratosthenes’ (1961).

Ever wondered where the weekday names come from? The answer may go back a bit further than you think. But it’s also incomplete. The easy p...

Hesiod has races of gold, silver, bronze, heroes, and iron. The biblical book of Daniel has a statue where gold, silver, bronze, iron, and ...

Stoicism, the ancient school of philosophy, had some excellent ideas. Here’s their explanation of how sound works. We hear when the air...

The earth has orbited around the sun since 1609. At least that’s when Kepler’s book on the subject came out, Astronomia nova (‘The new astr...