💾 Culture is increasingly shaped by platforms we don’t control. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, the final episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special series Vanishing Culture, series host Vida Vojić reflec…
2️⃣/2️⃣ Hosted by Dave Hansen & Chris Freeland, this conversation with Vida Vojić and Alice Bridgwood brings together lessons from the series, from community archives and endangered languages to the chang…
9 Supernatural Creatures in the Works of Oscar Wilde Mermaids, giants, and witches are some of the supernatural characters readers encounter in the words of the brilliant writer Oscar Wilde. https://w…
Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature by Brian Lewis https://theconversation.com/who-were-the-luddites-their-legacy-ripples-through-politics-…
How storytelling can help us grasp climate change As glaciers melt, a writer considers what stories can do that data cannot by Adam Loften, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee https://aeon.co/videos/as-glaciers-melt…
Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlantic-cit…
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air." Witches, Scene I This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is Performed for the First Time (Probably) Toil an…
The Case for Aesthetic Education Why Friedrich Schiller believed art belongs at the heart of education—and why it matters for equal opportunity today. By: Marco Elvis Joven Domínguez https://daily.jst…
🚤🌊 Nancy Drew's lakeside adventure takes a dangerous turn in this clip from a LibriVox reading of the 1930 public domain classic, THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY. 🔍 📚It's just one of tens of thousands of free pu…
“Funes the Memorious" and Other Cases of Extraordinary Memory In Jorge Luis Borges's story of barely 12 pages, the celebrated writer plays with the infinite in a context of vast labyrinths of memory a…
Project Gutenberg News - August 2026 Contents Visit to the Gutenberg Museum Early American printers Women in Translation (WIT) Month Coming Website Changes New Releases at Gutenberg.org — July 2026 ht…
How Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” Defined Old English Literature Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales have come to define Old English literature and offer a unique window into life in medieval …
📚 The cultures most at risk of vanishing are often created and sustained by communities with the fewest resources. In WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, the final episode of the Future Knowledge podcast special seri…
Can empathy levels predict whether someone goes into the physical sciences? And is there a gendered component? Who are we kidding? Of course there is. https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/ald-report-…
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Our July POTM looks at the life of Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life with rheumatoid arthritis. by Elizabeth Wood…
🎤 STARTING IN 15 MINUTES! 🆓 Join us soon for a free livestream booktalk with author Simone O. Elias in conversation with Sonia Mansfield about Elias's new book, PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN…
Jules Verne’s Empty Dream of Spaceflight In “From the Earth to the Moon,” scientific advancement is treated as destiny — but no one quite asks why. By: Malka Older https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/j…
Marvelous Marbled Paper What is marbling? Marbling involves floating paints or pigments on a liquid bath and moving the paint around to create designs before laying down paper to pick up the patterns.…
Ernest Hemingway’s Personal Library Contained Thousands of Books—Here Are Some of the Authors From Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf, these are just a few of the legendary writers that lined Hemingway's b…
Aruba’s digital heritage collection now holds nearly 180,000 items for a community of just 110,000 people. 📚🌎 In A LANGUAGE WORTH SAVING, Peter Scholing of Biblioteca Nacional Aruba shares how Colecci…
