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The Daily Triptych298 / 365

25 OCT 2026

Day 298

We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey · How We Think
A marble sculpture group showing a faun pressed by small children in a tight, twisting cluster of limbs, carved as a single freestanding mass roughly torso height.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

A Faun Teased by Children

Italy · 1616 · Marble

Carved in Italy in 1616 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his father Pietro, this marble group of a faun and children now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A three-dimensional molecular model of the HIV virus, showing a roughly spherical structure with surface proteins protruding from a lipid envelope, rendered in blue, purple, and red against a neutral background.

II · THE DISCOVERY · HISTORY OF SCIENCE

HIV

1983 · Virology

The syndrome had a name, but not a cause. Within months of recognition, two laboratories on different continents had isolated the virus responsible, though what to call it remained unsettled.

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A tall night landscape in oil: a dark cypress rises through the centre against a swirling blue sky with a bright star, while a pale road leads inward across the lower ground.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Road with Cypress and Star

1890 · Oil on canvas · Kröller-Müller Museum

A cypress rises beside a road under a night sky. Painted in oil on canvas in May 1890, this Post-Impressionist work was Van Gogh’s last painting from Saint-Rémy and now hangs in Otterlo.

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A left-handed pitcher in mid-delivery, wearing a white uniform with navy and red trim, his left leg raised high, his throwing arm extended forward, an empty stadium visible behind him.

IV · THE GAME · MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Tom Glavine

Pitcher · 17 August 1987 · Atlanta Braves · New York Mets

He made his debut on a Monday night in August 1987, gave up eleven runs in the Astrodome, and went on to win three hundred and five games over the next two decades.

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