That inspiration was visible in her recent collection, Hellenic Charms. “I wanted to pay homage to Greece and to Athens,” she ...

As a bird of the night, the owl was associated with funerals, and its image has been traced to graves in the Mycenaean period. It also was ­believed that the owl had power against the evil eye, which, ...

The phrase “a parliament of owls” comes from medieval times, when people loved giving poetic names to animal groups. Writers imagined that owls, with their calm ...

Pieces once traded during the Greek and Roman eras or salvaged from Spanish shipwrecks continue to be popular with artisans ...

History is full of memorable personalities, and some of them shared their homes with animals that most people would never ...

Leading scholars from Harvard discuss the risks of AI on cognitive skills, emphasizing the importance of active mental ...

Some buildings at UT are not distinguished by style alone. Instead, they whisper to passersby through the quiet intention of ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to kill nearly half a million barred owls throughout Washington, Oregon and California after a short-lived effort to halt the cull was thwarted in the ...

An investigation into the cause of death of a barn owl at a Coke bottling plant has revealed that the animal suffered a fatal brain injury, not caused by deliberate harm. The National Council of SPCAs ...

It wasn’t exactly a hoot to be at the Schottenheimer house this week. The Dallas Cowboys coach revealed he had a winged visitor in his house on Thursday as he was in a game plan meeting, the result of ...

Ariana Grande's masterful 2018 album Sweetener includes a song called "R.E.M." Mike Mills, bassist for the legendary alt-rock band R.E.M., found this amusing. His laughter became slightly more anxious ...