The quest to calculate pi goes back nearly 4,000 years, to Babylon's 3.125 and ancient Egypt's 3.1605, both close but still relatively far off. Around 250 BCE the Greek mathematician Archimedes introduced the first rigorous geometric method, drawing polygons inside and outside a circle to bound pi and pin it to the digits 3.14.
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The open plan office traces its roots to idealistic modernist architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, who saw walls as barriers that divided people.
Read on Trill News →Scientists achieved a long-sought breakthrough in agricultural genetics by engineering hybrid rice plants to reproduce clonally through seeds, a process called apomixis that plant biologists had described as a "holy grail" for decades. The technique uses specific genetic mutations to produce more than 95% clonal seeds from commercial hybrid varieties, potentially eliminating the expensive helicopter-based pollen transfer methods currently used to produce hybrid rice seed at scale.
Read on Trill News →Honduran President Xiomara Castro dismissed Security Minister Ramón Sabillón following a massacre at a women's prison in Tamara that killed at least 46 inmates, the deadliest prison incident in Honduras in recent history. Gang members attacked the facility with machetes, guns, and flammable liquid, burning 26 people to death and killing the others by shooting or stabbing them in violence Castro publicly attributed to organized crime acting with the acquiescence of security officials.
Read on Trill News →Millions of American car owners found themselves owing more on their auto loans than their vehicles were worth in early 2023 as used car values fell sharply from the pandemic-era highs reached during the supply shortage. Average negative equity on vehicle trade-ins reached $5,341 in the fourth quarter of 2022, a 29% year-over-year increase, while the proportion of vehicle sales involving a negative-equity trade-in jumped 17% over the same period.
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