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How to be a word detective Etymology unravels the mysteries of language and the hidden webs that link people across the world. Here’s how to dive in by Danny Bate https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-be-a-…
Anne Dacier, translator of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey Anne Dacier (1645–1720), French scholar and translator best known for the prose translation of the Homeric epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey…
Public data needs more than preservation. It needs to remain usable. 🏛️ In THE FIGHT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD, Christopher Marcum of the Federation of American Scientists joins Merrilee Proffitt of Democr…
The Art of Drag: 7 Artists Who Manipulated Gender in Their Works For many artists, exploring the attributes of the opposite gender meant subverting the binary dynamic. Learn more about the art of drag…
Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him “It is the first novel he has ever read that makes him consider seriously the form of a human life.” https://lithub.com/brian-dillon-on-wha…
What Charles Dickens's 'A Tale of Two Cities' Gets Right About the French Revolution Charles Dickens took some liberties with history, but 'A Tale of Two Cities' gets some surprisingly important detai…
🌐 Web archives are never complete. What happens when the gaps, biases & disappearances become part of the story? CARTA Presents: “DIGITAL GHOSTS - ACCESS TO WEB ARCHIVES THROUGH DATA AND CREATIVITY” i…
@analogfusion thanks for your kind words, really appreciate it.❤️
Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Mach…
Knitting machine punch cards are a living form of computing history. 🧶💾 In “Punch Card Knitting,” Nichole Misako Nomura explores how these physical forms of binary code are still used today, and the c…
🔥 Tickets are going fast for this rare Negativland live performance in San Francisco! Don’t miss Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive, a one-of-a-kind evening of sound collage, humor & experime…
@cassana @NatureMC I found this page, with a brief description of each plate: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms408.HTM
Can statistics help crack the mysterious Voynich manuscript? The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights…
"Quanto più su l'instabil ruota vedi Di Fortuna ire in alto il miser uomo, Tanto più tosto hai da vedergli i piedi Ove ora ha il capo, e far cadendo il tomo." The higher up on Fortune's wheel you see …
14 Mesmerizing Mazes and Labyrinths The best places around the world for twists and turns. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/14-mesmerizing-mazes-labyrinths #mazes #labyrinths #travel
Did Renoir Actually Suck at Painting? A blockbuster touring exhibition is putting the spotlight on a legendary Impressionist who has long divided opinion. by Jo Lawson-Tancred https://news.artnet.com/…
In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium—a result so contrary to accepted astronomy that senior a…
@BjornW "a bit less user-friendly", why??
