by Andy Corbley | May 21, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius. On Vices was written by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before Vesuvius’...
by Andy Corbley | May 20, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
An Iranian-born British lawyer has made history as the UK’s first High Commissioner to come to the country as a refugee. Fleeing the post-revolutionary landscape to arrive in Great Britain without a word of English on his lips, Kanbar Hossein-Bor admitted his mother...
by Andy Corbley | May 19, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
From Pennsylvania comes the story of a man who had to make the difficult decision to put down his dog, but who couldn’t believe the sendoff he received from the local Texas Roadhouse. Receiving a to-go order with the note “last meal for our dog,” the staff made sure...
by Andy Corbley | May 19, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
A former social worker in Canada is enjoying his retirement in a very similar way to how he enjoyed his long career: by listening to people. Likening it to being the “stranger on the airplane” in the seat next to you, Paul Jenkinson is currently on a cross-Canada tour...
by Andy Corbley | May 14, 2025 | Inspiration-GNN
A Stanford scholar has been rewarded for his work documenting Chinese computing by winning his university the chance to purchase the only known prototype of the first-ever Chinese typewriter after it was found in a basement. Receiving offers through Facebook and...
