In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

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Taking us from colonial New Spain to Ancient Greece to contemporary opera, undergraduate students from culture-related programs presented their research at the second annual Culture Fest, an ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

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24 – the number of hard drives on the computer used by Peter Trueb for calculating pi. 700,000 – the number of years it will ...

Indiana’s senate didn’t vote down the bill. The state senators did, however, agree to postpone it indefinitely. Had it not ...

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Although Pierce Brosnan is no stranger to franchises, there's one that he's glad he ducked out of for a simple reason. Read more here.

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For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

A story of love, tragedy and raising hell, “Hadestown,” winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best New Musical, will ...