2. The Path of Tradition vs. Intuition

Maybe you’ve met someone new and instantly felt a sense of unease, though they haven’t done anything wrong. Or perhaps, you’ve sensed tension in a room the moment you walked into it.

These feelings don’t happen by accident. They’re your intuition picking up on subtle cues that your consciou...

In one of Aristarchus' books that did survive, he laid out the earliest known attempted calculations of the sizes and distances to the Sun and Moon.

From solar eclipses, where the Moon passes in front of the Sun, they realised that the Sun was further away. Aristarchus estimated that t...

We see different parts of the Moon light up at different times of the month. This is because the Moon is at different positions in its orbit around Earth relative to the Sun.

• A full Moon is when the Moon, Earth and Sun are lined up. The sunlight shines on the whole l...