Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Our nation, arising out of the American Revolution, was blessed with a disproportionate number of leaders with extraordinary accomplishments in a wide variety of human endeavors. To cite just three: ...

1 / 5 | The work of X on falling bodies and the idea that an object in motion tends to stay in motion set the stage for Newton’s laws of motion. X is also known for trying mathematics to physical ...

I HAVE lately been occupied in eliciting the degree and manner in which different persons possess the power of seeing images in their mind's eye, and am collecting a large and growing store of ...

The polymath Michael Polanyi famously said that “we know more than we can tell”. He was talking about the secret ingredient that allows a craftsman to speak to the wood knowing its limits before ...