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Moby Dick: The 19th-Century novel that challenged our fear of the 'monstrous' whale By Elizabeth Sulis Kim https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260819-moby-dick-the-19th-century-novel-that-challeng…
📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can actually be the product of a system. In BIG FICTION, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues that books are often shaped by a much larger indust…
An Ancient Roman Altar Dedicated To Jupiter Was Just Revealed By The Extremely Low Water Level Of The Danube River By Ella Spitz Made of limestone and marked by several inscriptions and design flouris…
Dolly Parton brought music and books to the world By Courtney Dorning, Lauren Hodges, Ailsa Chang https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5944449/dolly-parton-brought-music-and-books-to-the-world Her bea…
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. Tha…
Southernmost ATM The only place to get cash in Antarctica. McMurdo Station, Antarctica https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/southernmost-atm #travel
The lost golden age of language diversity Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and their decline began well before European colonial expansion by Damian …
To Begin the World Again Thomas Paine, America’s Leveller by Brooke Allen https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-fading-promise-of-higher-education/articles/to-begin-the-world-again Common Sense by Tho…
Most Challenged Books Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the books most frequently targeted by censors based on reports from the field and media coverage. https://www.ala.…
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What three female figures in the Bayeux tapestry reveal about medieval women by Natasha R. Hodgson The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of th…
Manuscript fragments hiding in plain sight shed light on medieval Guernsey’s literary life Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’ by Dal…
In which 'Winnie-the-Pooh' turns 100 by Samantha Balaban https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5697049/how-a-bear-became-a-book-annette-bay-pimentel-faith-pray Winnie-the-Pooh at PG: https://www.gutenb…
The Best Psychological Horror Books recommended by Tabitha Potts https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-best-psychological-horror-books-tabitha-potts/ At PG: "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Ju…
🤖 Long before computers became commonplace, people were fascinated by the idea of machines that could think, talk, and act on their own. From ELIZA to Little Computer People, early software used cleve…
Rare 300-Year-Old Book by Forgotten Dutch Master Resurfaces The Van Eeghen Drawing Book, newly donated to the Rijksmuseum, holds works attributed to Rombout van Uylenburgh, the cousin of Rembrandt's w…
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The coeds of 1894 In the 1890s, MIT alumnae weren’t expected to have meaningful careers. The women of the Class of 1894 proved that assumption wrong. By Mackenzie White https://www.technologyreview.co…
