בבא מציעא - Bava Metzia
Bava Metzia 2a ~ Garments, Game Theory and the Principal of Contested Sums
Israel’s Nobel Laureate Robert Aumann explains the math behind the Mishnah.
Mar Zutra extracted a confession with torture. But he also had a sensitive side.
Bava Metzia 30b ~ Visiting the Sick
Visiting the sick really does help them get better.
Bava Metzia 36b ~ Marshes, Miasmas and Bad Air
Theories of disease, from Abaye and Rava to the London cholera epidemic of 1854.
Bava Metzia 52b ~ The Not So Dead Sea
Inaccurate weights should be thrown there, but the lake contains a surprising amount of life.
Bava Metzia 85b ~ Rebbi's Ailments
Did the editor of the Mishna have an autoimmune disease?
Bava Metziah 106b - Kimah, the Pleiades, and the Planting Season in Iraq
How satellite imaging resolves a dispute between Rashi and Tosafot.