I might not be the only reader to omit Armand Marie Leroi’s “The Lagoon” from my list of 2014’s best books. Alone or not, I’d like to make amends now. Subtitled “How Aristotle Invented Science,” the ...

How Aristotle invented science. The great ancient Greek, and life on Earth. A 1597 map of Lesbos / Mytilene, Greece by Giacomo Franco. (Flickr / Creative Commons) Aristotle is, of course, the great ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Twenty-three centuries ago, Aristotle of Stagirus laid out a landscape of logic, physics, metaphysics, aesthetics, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Well, it's happy birthday Aristotle, 2,400 years of age and still revered, though he ...

Boys like trucks and girls like dolls. Women are better with kids. Men are naturally promiscuous. That's science, right? Despite growing scientific consensus that hardwired differences between the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

The Greeks used the word episteme for science. Episteme means knowledge, techne (craftsmanship), understanding, and experience. Episteme / science was primarily knowledge from the observation of ...