A few years ago, a student at the university where I’ve been teaching for the last decade asked me about my working process as an art historian. Without thinking too much about it, I said that I find the tools
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Plato and Aristotle made music part of education because they believed it shaped character and judgment, but both reserved that training for a favored class.
Read on Trill News →Dolly Parton Imagination Library books are free to families because a local partner pays for the books and postage, so access depends on where a child lives.
Read on Trill News →Roman cameo glass challenged Victorian makers to reproduce layered colors and fine relief, making a famed ancient vase into a demanding test of modern craft.
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A signed Salvador Dali print needs evidence of its edition and ownership, because a famous name cannot establish how the image was made or who authorized it.
Thieves emptied most of the Treasure of Villena in four minutes, carrying off Bronze Age gold that has anchored the identity of a small Spanish town since 1963.
John Rawls's veil of ignorance asks which society you would choose to be born into without knowing your place, and most nations still fail his fairness test.
RAM and SSD prices keep rising because memory makers now lock most of their output into long term deals with AI data centers, so cheap memory may not return.
Loss of cell identity may drive human aging as the controls that keep cells specialized erode, offering a new explanation for what epigenetic clocks measure.
A hacked Flock camera shows that the license plate readers on American roads also detect people, and its own logs counted 1.6 million images in just 21 days.
Chris Johnson says ALS has changed his body but not his identity as a father, as the former Tennessee Titans star sends a letter to all four of his children.
Texas public libraries return $4.74 for every dollar spent, a new Texas Library Association study finds, yet many still run on staffs cut since the pandemic.
Fine dining has a business problem that higher prices alone cannot solve: constantly inventing new dishes makes kitchens harder to run reliably. In a 2023 analysis, UCL management researcher Vaughn Tan argued that restaurants need repetition to control waste, train cooks, and deliver the food customers expect.
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Americans have stopped hosting friends at home, and the share who have guests over at least monthly has fallen from 42 percent in 1975 to 12 percent in 2026.
Read on Trill News →A dark web breach of 153 million driver's licenses is a national security problem, not just fraud, as foreign spies can tie these scans to other stolen data.
Read on Trill News →AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google hacked real companies in security tests, and all four labs traced the breaches to one evaluator, Irregular.
Read on Trill News →Anthropic says Claude helped attackers scale cybercrime and surveillance, as its September threat report details abuse across seven areas of serious concern.
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