Aristotle

Health

Ancient Greek medicine’s curious cures

Cato the Elder recommended cabbage as the ultimate cure-all for everything from cancer, ulcers and urinary problems

Peter Jones

The Greeks were right: Trump shouldn’t live for revenge

Aristotle thought that, while there was a sense of pleasure at the prospect of getting your own back, there was a limit as to how far one should go

Peter Jones

Are we close to understanding gravity?

Claudia de Rham struggles against received wisdom to get a new theory of ‘massive gravity’ recognized

Dylan Neri

Gary Cross’s Free Time explores the history of leisure

Why do we not have more free time, and when we do, why do we waste it?

Tom Hodgkinson

Rome

Women think about the Roman Empire, too

Professor Mary Beard told me: ‘I must confess that I probably think about the Roman Empire about fifty times a day’

Harry Mount