Texas A&M, under new curriculum limits, warns professor not to teach Plato
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The Florentine Diamond resurfaces after 100 years in hiding. Legendary jewel of the Habsburgs not seen since 1919 and thought lost, has actually been safe in a Canadian bank for decades. (gifted link)
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AI’s ability to read and summarize is making it a useful tool for scholarship
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Re-enacting the 1492 papal conclave for college credit
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Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021
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The endangered languages of New York
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California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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The misguided war on the SAT
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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A miracle in Missouri? The nun who put her abbey on the map
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An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
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War against the children
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The art of translation
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The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
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Saul Kripke, philosopher who found truths in semantics, dies at 81
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He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
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The SAT will go completely digital by 2024
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Search for Jimmy Hoffa leads the FBI to Jersey City landfill
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What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters
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Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate.
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Pope Francis appoints first African-American cardinal
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away.
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979)
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How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents
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Ancient rock art in the plains of India: Two amateur sleuths have uncovered a collection of mysterious rock carvings on the Indian coastal plain south of Mumbai
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LA’s elite on edge as prosecutors pursue more parents in admissions scandal
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The birth of cheap communication (and junk mail)
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Return of African artifacts sets a tricky precedent for Europe’s museums
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Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?
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Anti-semitisim comes to a city of tolerance
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting leaves at least four dead, official says
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We use sports terms all the time. But where do they come from?
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Fighting for Judaism in the Jewish State
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The secret history of Leviticus
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