In the Greek myths, the villain Procrustes would ensnare hapless travelers on the road to Athens and tie them to his iron bed. If they were too short, he would ...

We have all heard about Procrustes, the mythological Greek bandit who stretched short visitors and lopped off limbs of taller guests to make them fit his bed. I imagine that Procrustes himself fit his ...

Procrustes had a really nasty habit of forcing things to fit. The Greek mythological character would compel people to lie in an iron bed. This is when his compulsion to make them fit came in. If the ...

In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the worlds earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character ...

Procrustes, the cruel abductor in Greek mythology, is known for his punitive bed which adjusted his undesired victims to perfect size. Tall victims had their legs cut off with sharp metal tools and ...

The ever-expanding Percy Jackson and the Olympians cast brings more new faces in episode 7, titled ‘We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of’. Watching it, many viewers were left enquiring about the actors who ...

And now for something completely different — an FCAT letter with ties to ancient Greece. As a high-school reading coach, I recently visited a ninth-grade world-history classroom to talk about ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a Wall Street trader-turned- flâneur, is the author of two previous bestselling works of idiosyncratic non-fiction, Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, on the subject of ...