The Theseus' Paradox asks the question: if you've replaced every part of something, is that something still fundamentally the same, or has it become a new thing altogether? Let's talk about how this ...

"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old ...

On my last day of winter break, the house is empty for the entire afternoon — with my parents at work, my older siblings retreating to their respective apartments in Burlingame and Chicago, my ...

Nick Chopper was an unassuming woodsman in the forest of Oz. But as destiny would have it, the evil witch cursed his axe; it turned back on him and chopped his limbs off, one by one. Nick thus ...

Former Bulgarian PM Reneta Indzhova, who was recently appointed head of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute, likened her new job to mending the Ship of Theseus. "At the Statistics Bureau you ...

Kiran Rao talks about the Ship of Theseus and the similarity to the paradox. One of the underlined themes of the film is about identity, change and how much we are a part of our environment and how ...