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What Gulliver Saw by Katie Ebner-Landy Gulliver’s Travels uses the land of the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos to explore whether being recognized as human is based on observable characteristics. https://www.lr…
🏛️ Democracy invites participation; democracies require it. What can libraries do to make that participation possible? At our Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation event, we’ll explore how prese…
🧩 Ever play THE IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ? This maddening Flash game is a snapshot of the weird, inventive web culture that flourished in the 2000s. Its preservation shows why saving Flash matters: creations th…
Why we love literary anniversaries This special year saw a variety of high-profile celebratory events across the country, from regency balls and film screenings, to special tours and literary talks. b…
What we read today was shaped by economic forces that transformed publishing decades ago. 📚 In BIG FICTION on the Future Knowledge #podcast, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin explains how consolida…
The Most Remote Place on Earth Has Space Junk and a Sea Monster Eerie things happen at Point Nemo. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-point-nemo At PG: Jules Verne https://www.gutenber…
Flash was once the playground of the web: games, animations & experiments made by anyone with an idea. 💻 Preserving those creations helps recover a lost chapter of culture. In “Why Preserve Flash?”, I…
This month's Distributed Proofreaders' blog is "How Not to Be a Wallflower" from 1928. The book looks at both female and male wallflowers, and gives us "advice" on how to avoid being like them. https:…
@aaribaud I just copied/pasted the original title, I'll fix that, thanks.
@aaribaud In a printed page, it's 2D. For a 3D vision we need additional resources.
Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe The new DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map serves as the foundation for the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe, used to investigate dark energy https://…
On the Fact and Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden “Terror wasn’t the only weapon the Nazis used against the American prisoners. Sometimes, they used propagandistic persuasion as well.” Susan Farrell …
For more than 40 years, Negativland has challenged conventions around media, copyright & culture. Now, for a rare live appearance, they bring Over The Edge: Significantly Less Deceptive to the Interne…
10 Famous Quotes From Ancient History Everyone Should Know Some of our most quotable sayings date back thousands of years to ancient Greece and Rome. But who said them, and what do they really mean? h…
Why Did Degas Paint So Many Ballerinas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoc44aOjS_A #art
How Dante & the Tuscan Vernacular Gave Birth to the Italian Language Dante’s decision to write his 14th-century "The Divine Comedy" in Florentine vernacular, not in Latin, shaped the Italian language …
@codebyjeff Haven’t watched till the end but it looks quite interesting. Thanks for sharing!
🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs brought people together to learn, trade software, share ideas & explore the rapidly changing world of personal computing. 💾 A surviving binder of 50 Atari newslet…
🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, SIMULTANEOUS COUNTER-COMPOSITION (1930) 🎨🇳🇱 🖼️ Theo van Doesburg’s geometric abstraction is associated with De Stijl, the influential movement he helped shape. See it ➡️ h…
Dear Z-Librarians, In our last post on the blog, we shared some useful tips on how to use a search engine effectively. Have you already seen it? For more details, please see our post at: https://z-lib…
