The eye of the mathematician Is mathematical beauty real? Or is it just a subjective, human ‘wow’ that is becoming redundant in an AI age? by Rita Ahmadi https://aeon.co/essays/how-should-we-define-ma…
💧🏛️ Early 1900s California cities in action! Pamphlets from San Diego, Pasadena & San Jose reveal how California cities tackled water planning, civil service reform & public health during the P…
🎶 3.1415926535… 🎶 For #PiDay, enjoy the first 50 digits of Pi, sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. 𝝅 It’s one of 56 delightfully nerdy readings of The First Fifty Digits of Pi by Libr…
We love π around here. In the Great Room at the Internet Archive, the first nine digits of π are mounted on the wall. A small #PiDay tribute to a very big number. 🥧📚 Here’s Brewster Kahle with 3.14159…
#OTD in 1869 writer Algernon Blackwood was born. He "was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history o…
Happy π Day! And Albert Einstein was born #OTD 147 years ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi Isaac Newton used infinite series to compute π to 15 digits, later writing "I am ashamed to tell you to h…
Ancient Egyptian form of ‘Tipp-Ex’ identified on papyrus at UK’s Fitzwilliam Museum A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found by…
😱 Another Friday the 13th. With that much misfortune we need some good luck. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is on the job with his own lucky foot 🐰🦶 🍀 Luckily we've preserved some good fortune for you in our…
Charles Darwin Drawings and Doodles At some point the Darwin children found their father's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species and drew all over it. by Sheldon D. https://flashbak.com/charles-darwin…
The Dante Map: Mary Hensman’s Masterpiece Posted by: Cynthia Smith "In celebration of Women’s History Month, I am featuring the map below. It was designed by the 19th century scholar and mapmaker Mary…
‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’ is actually not just about death The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” arguably is the most well-known Tibetan Buddhist text outside Tibet. by Jue Liang https://theconversation…
📖 How can law can shape technology for the public good? Find out by joining us for the LAW AND TECHNOLOGY #booktalk with Ryan Calo & Danielle Citron as they share a step-by-step approach to naviga…
Chia Amisola’s "Elegiac" unfolds hundreds of browser windows into a generative myth from archived media, sound, and text 🎨🎶📝 Created for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpage Net Art Com…
How did Mickey Mouse go from borrowing hit songs to making Disney’s own musical legacy? 🎶 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strips referenced popular songs, like "Singin’ in the Rain," placing the character ins…
Visiting every museum in New York City A Q&A with Jane August, a content creator on a quest https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/visiting-every-museum-in-new-york-city-a-q-a-with-jane-august Broo…
How Women Researchers Changed Our Understanding of Women’s Economic Lives How can better data drive economic change? ‘We Do Declare’ uses oral histories to reveal how women collected evidence, reframe…
In the Film Death in Venice, Music Is the Narrator A haunting score shapes the rise and fall of a writer consumed by infatuation. By: Angelica Frey https://daily.jstor.org/in-the-film-death-in-venice-…
For decades, Cindy Cohn & @eff have led the fight for digital rights—challenging surveillance, defending encryption, and protecting online freedom. Her new book, Privacy’s Defender, is out now. 🎧 …
The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf …
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