There’s a good section in Linda Colley’s Britons, for instance, on how early 18th-century Brits often went no farther than about 10 miles from their home town. Opportunity went 28 miles from its landing site.
There’s a good section in Linda Colley’s Britons, for instance, on how early 18th-century Brits often went no farther than about 10 miles from their home town. Opportunity went 28 miles from its landing site.
Opportunity traveled farther on Mars during its lifetime than most people traveled from their birthplace before the 19th century.
I believe my puppy is now teething
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to last week’s @podcastwhatsnew, “Seeking Justice for Hidden Deaths,” please give it a stream. Margaret Burnham is remarkable, as is her Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project.
With the addition of a letterpress lab, an exhibit on tactile writing systems, our wide variety of digital humanities projects, and research around hard OCR problems, I’m really excited about the constellation of work around technologies of reading/writing here @Northeastern.
I’ve been introducing my new dog to other dogs in the neighborhood, but her favorite new friend is a long-haired panda. 14/10 didn’t know you could have a panda for a pet
“February 12, 1809, and Wikipedia’s Evolution”—Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born on this day, an odd fact that used to be highlighted in their Wikipedia entries. How fights over these factoids have changed Wikipedia’s historical writing.
One more from @Huskiana
Loving the trays of type @Huskiana (nice combination of Futura Bold and old letterpress tech)
At the launch of @Huskiana, @Northeastern’s new letterpress lab, the brainchild of @ryancordell. So cool.
Does anyone know how to reset the PRAM on a coffee machine?
Google hasn’t paid much attention to Google Books for years, and it’s really starting to show.
There are no scarier words in the English language than “I have just registered my kid for driver’s ed”
I just love this evocative book in @zetamathian’s office. It’s the 2nd volume of NASA’s Orbital Flight Handbook, for “mission sequencing problems” like when your spaceship’s re-entry angle is…slightly off 😬
1000s of African Americans were murdered as the civil rights movement arose—a brutal continuation of decades of lynching. On What’s New, I talk w/ Margaret Burnham, who is solving these cold cases & seeking justice
Read a story aloud and have it illustrated on the fly with art from @metmuseum (uses the Met’s 300K CC0-licensed images, their brand new subject index, and a bit of AI)
Registration is now open to everyone (not just members of the Association of Research Libraries or the Coalition for Networked Information) for the Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop we are hosting at the end of March: dsg.neu.edu/cni_works…
Like all responsible dog owners, we already have a hundred nicknames for our new pup, including Houndo Calrissian
I mentioned this talk when I saw it in December, and the video is now available: an incredibly blunt and knowledgeable criticism from someone who knows a lot about the underlying technology: David Rosenthal, “Blockchain: What’s Not To Like?”
Sure, those two guys made it across Antarctica, but many of us survived the journey to get our mail today
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to the latest What’s New podcast on tactile reading, it’s really worth a listen, and the associated “Touch This Page” exhibit opens soon in our library with archival and 3D-printed examples.
On the latest What’s New podcast, I talk with @SariAltschuler about the fascinating origin and impact of tactile writing systems for the visually impaired, like Braille and Boston Line Type. I learned so much from Sari and you will too: “Touch This Page”
#LunarEclipse
We have another opening @ClubSnell: Global Campus Outreach & Online Learning Librarian — come join us in a vibrant and friendly library that is exploring the frontiers of research and learning.