March 14 is International Day of Mathematics (as well as Pi (π) day), but since we have already written various blog posts about some of the bigger topics, this year we will talk about someone we haven’t written about yet …
Feb. 12 was Lincoln Day in the US, a day to remember him and his impact on US history. What many people are not aware of is the impact of ancient Greece on Lincoln. You can see his tribute to …
Last week was National Inventors Day (Feb. 11) in the USA, marking Thomas Edison’s birthday. To mark the occasion let’s take a look at some ancient Greek inventors, and because they were usually also Engineers, we will also mix National …
On National Periodic Table Day (in the USA) we will take a look at how the elements got their names. There are currently 118 elements, with the latest 4 being discovered as recently as 2016 (and more predicted to be …
Ask somebody if they have heard of Aesop’s Fables and they will probably say no, but ask them if they have heard of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, or the race of the Tortoise (Turtle) and the Hare (Rabbit), and …
On International Day of Education, we remember Plato, who founded Plato’s Academy, the first institution of higher learning, in 387 BC. Plato, who was the student of Socrates, had a huge impact on the development of education, and while he …
For the past 50 years, Biologists have been stuck on a problem, the “protein folding problem”, to predict in what shapes proteins fold into. Despite all their attempts, they could not solve it. Until now. Just last month a team …
On Saturday (Dec. 19) the San Jose State Spartans won the Mountain West college football championship for the first time ever in their history, and they did it undefeated. Now they will play in the Arizona Bowl on Dec. 31, …
FC Flora just won their 2nd Estonian Meistriliiga championship in a row (13th overall), proving again why they are the most successful football (soccer) club in Estonia. Flora is the Roman goddess of flowers, known as Khloris to the Greeks. …
As of July 1st, 2020, UC San Diego Athletics (the Tritons) got promoted to Division I of NCAA college sports in the USA! Triton was a Greek god, the son of Poseidon, making them the only Div. I US college …