It is interesting how the human brain makes associations. I say the word apple, and you would immediately start forming an image of a green or red apple in your mind. I say batman and the association ...

Dante Alighieri imagined hell as being a hole in the Earth the shape of a giant ice cream cone. With a tip at the centre of the Earth, hell was covered by a vaulted roof that was part of the Earth's ...

Good Morning Bloodstock is Martin Stevens' daily morning email and presented here online as a sample. Here he presents the first half of a two-parter dedicated to the late great Galileo focusing on ...

The Catholic Church’s missteps surrounding the Galileo Affair still resonate in today’s world, in which the war between science and religion is still perpetuated. It’s time to retire that myth because ...

It’s easy to take a digital, binary view of the 17th century Church vs. Galileo conflict: Galileo right, Pope Urban VIII wrong. But the issue is more nuanced, and Galileo’s interaction with church ...

This book is 50 per cent really interesting and 50 per cent truly irritating. It is also totally wrong-headed, but in an important way. In other words, it is a book I recommend to the reader, but I ...