In the heart of South Asia’s teardrop-shaped island lies an ecological treasure often overlooked—the butterfly. These vibrant ...

Sri Lanka’s free education policy, a landmark achievement, was introduced in 1945 by Dr C W W Kannangara. This policy ensures ...

In the 3rd century BC, Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, died of laughter after giving his donkey figs then watching it try to eat them. In 1410, King Martin of Aragon died from a combination ...

He may have died laughing, but Chrysippus gifted us the blueprint for modern psychology and the Stoic wisdom that can calm our modern world.

An ambitious project to reconstruct the thought of the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus through the Herculaneum Papyri PHerc. 1421 and PHerc. 1038 gets under way at the University of Turin. The project ...

Laughter can be deadly in rare instances, as shown by three bizarre cases where people have died from laughing too hard. These include ancient Greek philosopher Chrysippus of Soli, who allegedly ...

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During that time, often divided into three stages (ancient, middle, and new), figures such as Cleanthes of Assos, Chrysippus, Panaetius of Rhodes, and Posidonius emerged. While Chrysippus structured ...

The researchers raised two species of butterflies — Danaus chrysippus (plain tiger) and Papilio polytes (Common mormon) — and two species of silkworms, which they allowed to form chrysalises ...