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 navigating…
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 Brooklyn…
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. 🎧 On t…
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 …
Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama Devoney Looser Explores 19th-Century Attitudes About Menstruation and Women’s Health https://lithub.com/blood-on-the-page-on-jane-austens-period-drama/…
Does culture make emotion? Franz Boas helps us solve the puzzle of where our emotional lives originate: in our selves or in the cultures around us by Noga Arikha https://aeon.co/essays/who-am-i-when-i…
@gluejar "the party who holds the rights to the protected images has released them under a Creative Commons license. So, copyright isn't a blocker. Accordingly, an image that Project Gutenberg can pro…
Author to revive Shakespeare club after 300 years An author is relaunching a ladies club that once revived William Shakespeare's reputation 300 years ago. by Alice Cunningham https://www.bbc.co.uk/new…
Congrats to "THE KING IN YELLOW" by Caleb Hernandez, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬 An eerie remix that is genuinely unsettling and even frightening when …
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