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Live Action Role Play or LARP is often dismissed as an exclusive domain of the geeks. The sight of adults charging into battle with latex swords may not be everybody's cup of tea. But, there's more to LARP than meets the eye. Here's a stab at explaining the term. In essence, a player assumes a character and meets other characters in some form of a set. They try to execute a plot created by the Game Master (GM) who usually is in charge of organizi...

Geometry is an important part of Medieval and Renaissance fencing and in the swords they employed. Knowledge of the rules of geometry permeated Western civilization for hundreds of years. It built cathedrals and castles, enabled siege weapons, and inspired everything from illuminations to sculpture and painting. It was even seen as expressing the divine. Geometry was one of the medieval Trivium, part of the artes liberales taught within the class...

Roman legionnaires were the quintessential fighting machines of their time, a perfect amalgam of courage, discipline, and athletic ability. Consider marching over 20 miles a day with heavy armor, swimming across rivers, constructing bridges and roads, and waging war. In other words, each legionnaire was an intrepid decathlete meets MacGyver, which kind of explains Roman dominance. Still, the Empire's success on the battlefields was not simply fou...