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scott b. weingart
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past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.

present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.

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Two books plus a few dozen other peer reviewed pubs, but who's counting, eh? I'm like Merlin—I console myself—finishing the PhD backwards, with the benefit of hindsight.
A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
January 20, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Do you think each has a red smartphone?
The commissioner calling Batman on his red Batphone Batman talking to the Commissioner on his red batphone.
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 PM