Where did English come from?

When we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language. But what do the dialects spoken in dozens of countries around the w...

Ancient Greece's greatest erotic artist

Discover the works of erotic poet and songwriter Sappho , and find out why only fragments of her poetry still survive. Over 2,500 years ag...

Top 10 Things You Can't Prove But People Believe Anyway

  Empirical proof helps us validate what we should and shouldn't believe, but sometimes cold hard facts just aren't available. Even ...

Education For Life

According to eminent Indologists, civilization, as we know now, began 15000 years back on the banks of the Saraswathi River, and sprea...

Is Yoga The Pathway To Superpowers?

Yoga diehards have long claimed that the practice can allay physical ailments, such as back pain and headaches, as well as improve mood...

How To Seem Smarter Than You Are

We all want to seem smart around workmates and acquaintances, but we often don’t have the time to put in to further study to achieve t...

How to Deal With the Subtraction Called Distraction

‘Subtraction is distraction.’ Ben Sinclair My son sent me a text the other day – as he knows how much I love the use of rhyme in man...

What You Think is What Your Get!

"We can never succeed until we believe we'll succeed." -Keith DeGreen "We become what we think about." ...

Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting Ethics First

Emmanuel Levinas has come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century European philosophy. Initially seen...

Fascist Mysticism - Thoughts by Jordan Peterson

Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star via Getty ImagesJordan Peterson, Toronto, December 2016 “Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes i...