
Show Me Your METAL! Part III.
In this final instalment of ‘Show Me Your Metal’, we shall look at four metallic elements which were not known to the ancients, but whose...

Show me your METAL! Part 1
Okay, so I am a better Classicist than I am a comedian. And so in this entry for Wordy Wonders, we look at the origins of key chemical...

Socrates: A Warning Against Complacency
The inspiration for this article was a passing conversation with a friend about the importance of history. She was fascinated by the...

Another kind of narrow…
I came across an article the other day that queried the relevance of degrees in the modern job market. This annoyed me for two main...

New Skills or Natural Human Capacities?
About a year ago a good friend of mine, ancient philosophy scholar, Nicholas Denyer (Trinity College, Cambridge) shared the following...

The Classical Lens
To study another language is to study another people. To study their literature, music, art, science, engineering, daily practices and...

The Hidden Relevance of Education: Part 1
Part 1: Jigsaw Joan’s Little Lesson Watching my toddler giggling happily as he completed his Paw Patrol jigsaw, I fell to musing on...

Human souls, human systems
Classical Thought for the Day XXIV I remember once conversing with a fellow graduate student at the start of term party, when we got on...









