A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

The New York Times continues to captivate puzzle enthusiasts with its daily word puzzle, Connections. The game challenges ...

Then came an audiobook to shiver my timbers. Suddenly, I heard of “clabberd” houses, stopping mid-walk to adjust my ear-buds.

How the Greek alphabet is misused and appropriated, from tombstone misspellings to pop culture distortions. Kalimniou's ...

By Lysandros LysandrouMarch 14th is celebrated globally as Pi Day. Of all mathematical constants, Pi is the best known and commonly approximated as 3.14. Thus, Pi Day honours the constant Pi ...

Under the broad definition of a pie as a filled, baked pastry shell, history has provided a wide range of pies. Egyptian ...

If the best word to describe the sound of Halo on the Inside is “nocturnal,” that’s because the process behind it was quite literally that, too. Haley Fohr, the Chicago-based artist who records as ...

I write a quarterly column for Preach magazine, in which I explore a significant word, phrase, or idea in the Bible, or a ...

During a typical week, readers (or podcast listeners) send me emails or messages through various social-media platforms. Often, these people are frustrated or even angry. Most folks are not upset with ...