M
@absentmindedmama.bsky.social
Digital humanities and digital pedagogy
Took the road less traveled by…
Took the road less traveled by…
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Clocks Around the World: How Other Languages Tell Time
Clocks Around the World: How Other Languages Tell Time
When we start learning a language, we soon find ourselves practicing how to ask for the time.
www.openculture.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Clocks Around the World: How Other Languages Tell Time
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my essay for @aeon.co on the science of alien languages and science fiction has gone live! This thing is over a year in the making. Give it a read and let us know what you think!
#xenolinguistics #alien #language
#scifi #philosophy #solaris
#xenolinguistics #alien #language
#scifi #philosophy #solaris
Is it time to chart a new path for xenolinguistics through sci-fi? | Aeon Essays
To truly explore alien languages, linguists must open themselves to the maximum conceivable degree of cosmic otherness
aeon.co
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
my essay for @aeon.co on the science of alien languages and science fiction has gone live! This thing is over a year in the making. Give it a read and let us know what you think!
#xenolinguistics #alien #language
#scifi #philosophy #solaris
#xenolinguistics #alien #language
#scifi #philosophy #solaris
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Behold Harry Clarke’s Hallucinatory Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Story Collection, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1923)
Behold Harry Clarke’s Hallucinatory Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Story Collection, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1923)
As you’ve probably noticed if you’re a regular reader of this site, we’re big fans of book illustration, particularly that from the form’s golden age—the late 18th and 19th century—before photography ...
www.openculture.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Behold Harry Clarke’s Hallucinatory Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Story Collection, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1923)
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Inside you, there are two wolves.
July 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Inside you, there are two wolves.
Egypt through the Lens of Kazuyoshi Nomachi: Captures from the Late 20th Century – Cairo 360 Guide to Cairo, Egypt
www.cairo360.com/article/arts...
www.cairo360.com/article/arts...
Egypt through the Lens of Kazuyoshi Nomachi: Captures from the Late 20th Century
A renowned Japanese photographer who developed a special interest in the Nile and the countries around it, Kazuyoshi Nomachi has documented unique sights in Egypt during the late 20th century as a
www.cairo360.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Egypt through the Lens of Kazuyoshi Nomachi: Captures from the Late 20th Century – Cairo 360 Guide to Cairo, Egypt
www.cairo360.com/article/arts...
www.cairo360.com/article/arts...
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Could the semicolon die out? Not on my watch! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
Could the Semicolon Die Out? Recent Analysis Finds a Decline in Its Usage in British Literature and Confusion Among U.K. Students
Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a survey
www.smithsonianmag.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Could the semicolon die out? Not on my watch! www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
June 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
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How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music
How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music
On his 84th birthday this past Saturday, Bob Dylan played a show. That was in keeping with not only his still-serious touring schedule, but also his apparently irrepressible instinct to work: on music...
www.openculture.com
May 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How Bob Dylan Kept Reinventing His Songwriting Process, Breathing New Life Into His Music
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The World’s Oldest Homework: A Look at Babylonian Math Homework from 4,000 Years Ago
The World’s Oldest Homework: A Look at Babylonian Math Homework from 4,000 Years Ago
Homework has lately become unfashionable, at least according to what I've heard from teachers in certain parts of the United States. That may complicate various fairly long-standing educational practi...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The World’s Oldest Homework: A Look at Babylonian Math Homework from 4,000 Years Ago
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James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Even the most avid James Joyce fans surely have times when they open Finnegans Wake and wonder how on Earth Joyce wrote the thing.
www.openculture.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
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“I don’t see any point in writing riddles. Life is enigmatic in itself.” Jon Fosse discusses his short story “Elias,” which is taken from his forthcoming novel “Vaim.”
Jon Fosse on Writing as an Act of Listening
The author discusses his story “Elias.”
www.newyorker.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“I don’t see any point in writing riddles. Life is enigmatic in itself.” Jon Fosse discusses his short story “Elias,” which is taken from his forthcoming novel “Vaim.”
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With so much in its favor—a style that is trademark Jane Austen, an appealing and ingenuous heroine, and an equally appealing love interest—why is “Northanger Abbey” not more appreciated? Adelle Waldman defends Austen’s least beloved novel.
In Praise of Jane Austen’s Least Beloved Novel
Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.
www.newyorker.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
With so much in its favor—a style that is trademark Jane Austen, an appealing and ingenuous heroine, and an equally appealing love interest—why is “Northanger Abbey” not more appreciated? Adelle Waldman defends Austen’s least beloved novel.
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Eleven chapters of Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography, “Speak, Memory,” initially appeared, out of order, in The New Yorker. Elif Batuman reflects on the first chapter, “The Perfect Past.” #NewYorker100
Elif Batuman on Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Perfect Past”
A contract with the The New Yorker saw Nabokov through his cash-strapped pre-“Lolita” years—and continued beyond them for three decades.
www.newyorker.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Eleven chapters of Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography, “Speak, Memory,” initially appeared, out of order, in The New Yorker. Elif Batuman reflects on the first chapter, “The Perfect Past.” #NewYorker100
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Catching the light of the world – fascinating read on the co-evolution of vision and consciousness www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/28/a...
Catching the Light of the World: The Entwined History of Vision and Consciousness
“The light of the mind must flow into and marry with the light of nature to bring forth a world… To see, to hear, to be human requires… our ceaseless participation.”
www.themarginalian.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Catching the light of the world – fascinating read on the co-evolution of vision and consciousness www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/28/a...
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Through vibrant animation, Grace Kemarre Robinya breathes life into her memories of central Australia. Her collaboration with filmmaker Jonathan Daw offers a rare glimpse into Aboriginal storytelling traditions that exist beyond Western narrative structures
An Aboriginal painter depicts scenes from her youth in this beautiful short | Psyche Videos
Clanking cowboys, hard-working women and fighting dogs populate the landscape of an Aboriginal artist’s childhood
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May 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Through vibrant animation, Grace Kemarre Robinya breathes life into her memories of central Australia. Her collaboration with filmmaker Jonathan Daw offers a rare glimpse into Aboriginal storytelling traditions that exist beyond Western narrative structures
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How memory gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world buff.ly/MW5fOtt
May 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
How memory gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world buff.ly/MW5fOtt
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Major publishers are calling Google’s new AI Mode exactly what it is: theft. The News/Media Alliance says Google is “taking content by force” From The Verge to Mashable, and now even financial analysts, the backlash is real.
www.searchengineworld.com/publishers-t...
#AI #SearchEngines #SEO
www.searchengineworld.com/publishers-t...
#AI #SearchEngines #SEO
Publishers to Google: “AI MODE IS THEFT”!
A growing number of major news organizations are accusing Google of crossing the line with its new AI Mode. What was once a slow drip of concern has erupted
www.searchengineworld.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Major publishers are calling Google’s new AI Mode exactly what it is: theft. The News/Media Alliance says Google is “taking content by force” From The Verge to Mashable, and now even financial analysts, the backlash is real.
www.searchengineworld.com/publishers-t...
#AI #SearchEngines #SEO
www.searchengineworld.com/publishers-t...
#AI #SearchEngines #SEO
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“The only way to stop serving as a character in someone else’s story is to tell your own.”
The Woman Who Rewrote Me - Electric Literature
What happens when the person you love treats you like a character in one of her stories?
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May 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“The only way to stop serving as a character in someone else’s story is to tell your own.”
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The small towns in Southern Gothic literature ask us: When do we get so comfortable that we stop seeing a place’s problems?
7 Southern Gothic Books Set in Small Towns - Electric Literature
These writers reveal insidious legacies lurking beneath charming facades
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May 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The small towns in Southern Gothic literature ask us: When do we get so comfortable that we stop seeing a place’s problems?
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this calms me - just a guy scanning microfiche but wow reminds me of researching in college
see kids, we didn't have access to the net, we had to scrounge for data in old library rooms, but usually it was on microfiche
we didn't even have crummy dial up
omg i feel old
see kids, we didn't have access to the net, we had to scrounge for data in old library rooms, but usually it was on microfiche
we didn't even have crummy dial up
omg i feel old
📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing.
The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library.
Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress.
🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays)
➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library.
Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress.
🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays)
➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
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May 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
this calms me - just a guy scanning microfiche but wow reminds me of researching in college
see kids, we didn't have access to the net, we had to scrounge for data in old library rooms, but usually it was on microfiche
we didn't even have crummy dial up
omg i feel old
see kids, we didn't have access to the net, we had to scrounge for data in old library rooms, but usually it was on microfiche
we didn't even have crummy dial up
omg i feel old
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"We are never as kind as we want to be, but nothing outrages us more than people being unkind to us."
A magnificent antidote to outrage culture and the socially condoned unkindnesses that flood us daily, especially on (anti)social media www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/13/o...
A magnificent antidote to outrage culture and the socially condoned unkindnesses that flood us daily, especially on (anti)social media www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/13/o...
How Kindness Became Our Forbidden Pleasure
“We are never as kind as we want to be, but nothing outrages us more than people being unkind to us.”
www.themarginalian.org
May 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"We are never as kind as we want to be, but nothing outrages us more than people being unkind to us."
A magnificent antidote to outrage culture and the socially condoned unkindnesses that flood us daily, especially on (anti)social media www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/13/o...
A magnificent antidote to outrage culture and the socially condoned unkindnesses that flood us daily, especially on (anti)social media www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/13/o...
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Our relationship with cars tells us about society and its priorities. What does a history of underground parking reveal about postwar policy? buff.ly/IQ063uw
May 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our relationship with cars tells us about society and its priorities. What does a history of underground parking reveal about postwar policy? buff.ly/IQ063uw
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This video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center provides an unprecedented look at the intricate, interconnected flow of ocean currents around the world
A stunning visualisation explores the intricate circulatory system of our oceans | Aeon Videos
Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents
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May 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center provides an unprecedented look at the intricate, interconnected flow of ocean currents around the world