A 2024 study argues the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt, may have been built with a hydraulic lift that floated stone blocks up from inside. The Step Pyramid is believed to be the oldest of Egypt's seven monumental pyramids, built about 4,500 years ago, so the claim would push major hydraulic engineering earlier than scholars thought.
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Saru Jayaraman, founder of One Fair Wage, is seizing on widespread tipping fatigue to push for the elimination of the subminimum wage that lets employers in 43 states pay tipped workers as little as $2.13 an hour.
Read on Trill News →Thomas Crooks led a double life, presenting as a standout engineering student while secretly building explosives and planning an assassination.
Read on Trill News →Ahead of Wimbledon in 2025, Carlos Alcaraz entered his title defense in peak form, aiming to join an elite group of legends by securing his third consecutive trophy at the All England Club following his recent French Open victory.
Read on Trill News →Peer review can no longer catch errors or fraud in modern science, cosmologist Paul M. Sutter argues, because so much of it rests on code nobody can see.
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