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One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation.
The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern.
Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art.
It deserves far more recognition.
What if you treated your life less like a checklist and more like a design project? In this episode of The Happiness Lab, Dr. Laurie Santos chats with life-design experts about why meaning doesn’t have to be one big “aha” moment. https://t.co/K4QWe9GGpq
Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being.
71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety.
Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.
Drury University architecture students designed a "giving hub" for Grant Beach, which will function as a bus stop and provide access to a community fridge. It is expected to open permanently on the Drew Lewis Foundation's headquarters soon.
Read it: https://t.co/njsIQ2uzx0
We put these Drury roommates to the test to see how well they know their roommates. Well... sometimes, being a good roommate means learning from your mistakes😉🐾
Drury University and @OTCedu are teaming up through the Drury Springfield Promise, making higher education more affordable, accessible, and impactful. Read more about the OTC and Drury collaboration: https://t.co/tJsxcXT0jh
New partnerships with @DruryUniversity and @OTCedu for Drury Springfield Promise, electrical and mechanical engineering, and cyber security. Good stuff working for workforce development and growing top talent.
Millions voted for a man who has used racist epithets against black and brown people, said hateful things about the LGBTQ+ community, shown that he's a misogynist, carries 34 felony convictions. The list goes on... Over 72 million people voted positively for him.
Carl Sagan on books
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."
#breaking
With Springfield Promise, @DruryUniversity is making it easier for students from the area — and those whose families struggle to make financial ends meet — to become part of the campus.
https://t.co/ahHNiaY8cL @JJFrederick33@lordkevin
"A 2020 review of teacher surveys revealed that 9 out of 10 educators believe students learn better in their preferred learning style. There has been no decrease in this belief since the approach was debunked as early as 2004." https://t.co/GOMUTnnn3S