Today for National Puzzle Day we challenge you to solve the Stomachion. Created by Archimedes over 2,200 years ago, Archimedes’s Stomachion is a mathematical puzzle that is believed to be the world’s oldest known mathematical puzzle. The puzzle is also known as the Loculus of Archimedes or the Ostomachion. It consists Read more
The 2022 Nobel Prize winners have been announced this week. The awards are given out in 4 categories : Literature, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Chemistry. On top of that there is the Nobel peace prize and a special prize for Economics. You can trace the roots of practically all Read more
If you enjoy this website and our blog, you will definitely want to check out Ancient Greece Revisited, a website & YouTube channel that offers a new and fresh look at Ancient Greece in a way that you have not seen before. They take ancient ideas and philosophical concepts and Read more
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 from DeepMind, a Google owned AI company, created AlphaFold, a Read more
Not too long ago, I bumped into the art of Jeff Murray while browsing Instagram and found him working on a Greek mythology project that is worth sharing. Watch the video below for an intro to Jeff Murray and then read on for more. For more on Jeff Murray, visit Read more
A new species of Tyrannosaurus has been discovered in Canada and it was named after the Greek God of peaceful death, Thanatos. What the scientists did not realize when they named the Tyrannosaurus Thanatotheristis (Reaper of Death in their view) was that Thanatos was the Greek God of peaceful death, Read more