Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

But cosmologist Wendy Freedman is able to conceive of these heady abstractions in concrete, physical terms. Remarkably, she ...

Scientists are investigating the concept of the soul. Studies on nuns during spiritual experiences showed unusual brain ...

While growing up in south Lincoln, Loren Eiseley would often venture down to a small stream near his home to gather specimens ...

I must be getting old. I find I can now sit down and read and enjoy high-brow intellectual, philosophical, God-consciousness books and get a lot of good out of them. It probably has something to do ...

In Q&A, UChicago philosopher Agnes Callard talks new book and cultivating an ‘inherently inquisitive’ approach to ...

Elsie turned out to be a weary person & the house filled the author with distaste until she found out it was the house of a famous modern poet; then the house took on a fresh appearance.

Adamantios Korais was one of the most important figures of the Modern Greek Enlightenment and the Greek intellectual ... He studied medicine in Montpellier, France, but his love of letters and ...

British model David Gandy became one of the most famous male models in the world after being chosen as the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s Light Blue fragrance in 2006, before going on to front campaigns ...

This is the domain of brand slogans – those little sentences or phrases that remind us they exist. Here, we will look at 42 famous slogans representing consumer culture over the last century. A tiny ...

The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Once upon a time in the land of Ìwásè, Orunmila, Yoruba god of Wisdom and Divination, thought to showcase Yoruba science, divination, arts and philosophy to mankind; so, he codified the four ...