A few days ago, Dr. Cyril Thiaudière, archaeological expert in the jewellery and trinkets of the ancient Mediterranean, posted the...

Language - Humans' Most Powerful Weapon (for good or ill)! The pun in the title ‘Just Words’ is fully intended. The double meaning...

A Fun Intro to the Greek Alphabet

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This trend in research on leadership was noted by Yusuf M. Sidani of the Olayan School of Business in his 2014 article in the Journal of...

This thought for the day was originally going to be titled ‘The Danger of Self-Congratulations.’ What I simply mean by that is thinking...

Friedrich Dürrenmatt – A Tragedian for Our Times Der Besuch der Alten Dame – A Modern Greek Tragedy[1] I first encountered the wonderful...

"It's a blessing when you have a like-minded group to support you. One that gets the challenges you face, offers support and advice and...

Recently, I have seen the term skill-based curriculum a lot. But what does it mean? I found various definitions in my search, but...

Einstein and the ancients might initially seem like an odd juxtaposition, science legend Einstein and thinkers of the ancient world....

Wordy Weekly XXXVI You may remember that this is part II of the wordy weeklies looking at Latin and Greek derivatives in languages other...

Comedy and Critical Thinking 'Oh yeah, well that was nothing like a good...' *sigh* a jibe I hear all the time in response to my puns....

This is a question that has bedevilled philosophers of all disciplines, authors, and many other academics for a very long time. It is...

A Challenge and Alternative to the Socratic Denial of the Weakness of Will In his Nichomachean Ethics (1145b), Aristotle rigorously...

Do we actually knowingly do wrong? Joking about Cadbury’s mini eggs aside (but my goodness, aren’t they good?), it is almost a reflex...

This is literally a curriculum above the regular, exam-orientated curriculum. Hannah Young, one of my connections on LinkedIn, posted an...

If you put the term ‘EPICUREAN’ into Dictionary.com, the meaning at the top of the list is: “fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence...

After my first set of exams at university, there was one morning where I woke early, couldn’t get back to sleep (pre-dawn, just), and so...

Wordy Weekly Extra A Wordy Weekly extra. Biological terms related to leaves (and this is just part 1): CHLOROPHYLL: you might think the...