Robert Frost at Midlife In his poems for The Yale Review, the poet reckoned with mortality, imperfection, and the limits of form by Kamran Javadizadeh https://yalereview.org/article/kamran-javadizadeh…
🎶 The Public Song Project is back for 2026! WNYC invites everyone to create songs inspired by the public domain. Remix, reinterpret, or reimagine & be heard on WNYC & the Internet Archive. 📅 Submit yo…
🇨🇦 Canada’s Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) has joined a global movement to protect digital rights for libraries, archives & museums—supporting access, preservation, and sh…
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Who gets to decide how your data is used, especially when you never gave informed consent? Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert explore the ethical gray areas of data use, from facial recognition to unseen …
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‘The Queen of the Ghetto’ Gave New York’s Immigrant Community a Voice. A Century Later, It’s Re-emerging Anzia Yezierska wrote from experience then worked hard to make sure her work found an audience.…
Living without my self Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence by Mette Leonard Høeg https://aeon.co/essays/robert-musil-…
Congrats to "FLIP THE FROG THE DAME WHO CROAKED" by Adam Gaulke and Ben Haynes, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 A new noir story of amphibious revenge that…
OTD in 1770 English poet William Wordsworth was born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth Books by Wordsworth at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2879 #books #literature #poetr…
In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far? The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to formalize …
The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today. By Jocelyn Timperley https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/2026032…
Apollonius of Rhodes: The Man Who Changed Ancient Greek Literature for Ever Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes. By Nick Kampouris …
How do you build a better, more decentralized web? 🌐 In Berlin, technologists, artists, and organizers are coming together to co-create DWeb Camp 2026—rethinking the internet from the ground up. Learn…
Back in THE APPLE II AGE, the first encounters with computers for millions were defined by a software ecosystem including The Print Shop & early games. Historians Laine Nooney & Finn Brunton explore t…
🎙️ Why preserve college radio? Radio researcher Jennifer Waits stopped by CJSF to share insights from her work managing college & community radio collections. Jennifer volunteers at KFJC & works with t…
B-Sides: Thomas De Quincey’s “The English Mail-Coach” https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-thomas-de-quinceys-the-english-mail-coach/ The essay at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=The…
As a ‘book scientist’ I work with microscopes, imaging technologies and AI to preserve ancient texts by Christina Dinh Nguyen https://theconversation.com/as-a-book-scientist-i-work-with-microscopes-im…
🐣 It's Easter Monday. The day after Easter Sunday is celebrated across many countries as a spring holiday of family, outings & music. 🎶 Check out this 1899 "Festival of the Lilies" program from the hi…
The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off fr…
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