Yale Environment 360

One Yale student’s love languages: Mandarin, Greek, and particle physics

The imperceptible forces that push, pull, and pass through the universe have clearly tugged at Barkotel Zemenu a time or two. Or 10. Four years ago, Zemenu entered the vortex of Yale undergraduate ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Philosopher Anaxagoras and the Expanding Universe Theory

Anaxagoras, a visionary Greek philosopher, foresaw concepts of expanding universe and multiple worlds centuries before modern science.
CounterPunch

The Promethean Antikythera Computer of Greek Civilization

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...
CounterPunch

Greek Lighthouses of Knowledge

Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...
Publishers Weekly

Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

Europe's debt to Islamic scholarship is counted up in this sketchy intellectual history. Freely (Strolling Through Athens), a historian of science, surveys the work of ancient Greek thinkers from ...