This week we are welcoming to the Internet a new incarnation of FiveThirtyEight. The face of this “data journalism organization” is Nate Silver, a statistician justly renowned for his analyses of ...

Ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris (protonym, Trochilus Colubris), photographed at Smith Point Hawk Watch, Lake Jackson, Texas (USA). NOTE: this image has been altered. It has been ...

The 7th Century BCE Greek lyric poet, Archilochus, observed: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”1 Twenty-two centuries later, Erasmus transliterated Archilochus’s dictum ...

This poet has been called the “fight club of the ancient world” and “the first poet after Homer.” Archilochus of Pharos was once one of the best known poets in the Western world, beloved by both ...

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