Planets and Names: Why the Romans Won
If you’ve ever learned the planets in school, you probably did it without a second thought: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (Poor Pluto) Clean. Familiar. Almost… inevitable. But that inevitability is an illusion. Those names are the result of cultural inheritance, translation choices, and the quiet dominance of Roman scholarship […]
The Myth of European Dragons
If you’ve ever heard the word dragon and immediately pictured a massive, fire-breathing monster guarding treasure in a cave, congratulations — you’re thinking of a European dragon. That image didn’t come out of nowhere. Like most long-lasting myths, it’s a mix of old stories, misunderstood discoveries, and people trying to explain a scary world without modern science. At […]