Greenland is, kind of infamously, not all that green. Legend has it that the name, along with that of the seemingly equally misnamed Iceland, was a Viking bait-and-switch: you give the nice, ...
Erik the Red, whose real name was Erik Thorvaldsson, was a daring Viking explorer who famously turned a remote Arctic island into a thriving Norse settlement that endured for hundreds of years. Erik ...
Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...