Bookmobile
Bibliomules are used to “spread the joys of reading” in the foothills of the Venezuelan Andes, especially in the most rural areas where more conventional transport cannot reach.
For more see: bbc.
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Computer Therapy
The following is a transcript of a conversation between a young woman giving the Touring Test to the ELIZA program (Named after the character in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion) in the Project MAC computer at MIT in 1966.
Tho…
A Most Dapper Demonstration
Some nattily-attired chaps protesting the coming of Abercrombie and Fitch to Savile Row, London.
The protest began in earnest at 10:15am, when chumrades in arms marched around the corner to Abercrombie’s flagship store on Burlington Gardens, stabbin…
Burning Art In Italy
On Monday artist and museum curator Antonio Manfredi burned a painting as the artist watched via Skype. Manfredi has stated that he intends to burn three paintings a week in protest of the harsh cuts the austerity measures have imposed on cultur…
Racism, or a Matter of Perspective?
The Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Lijeroth, has become the focal point of a controversy in which she has been accused of racism. There have been calls for her resignation. It all began when the Minister participated in an art…
Donating Your Head to Theater
When the Polish composed Andre’ Tchaikowski died in 1982, he donated his body to science, but had left instructions requesting that his head, or rather his skull, be donated to the Royal Shakespeare Company in the hope that he might have t…
Lost Journal: The Case of the Hungry, Stupid Mover
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 21, 2002 (age 32) If helping someone move is socially challenging for the best of friends, it is colossally awkward for complete … Read more
The Gate of Hell
“The way to Hell is easy:
Night and day the gates of black Ditis stand open.” Virgil
While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. The gro…
Mouseland
Thanks to Will Shetterly for finding this wonderful parable that is as valid today as ever.
Just click on his name above.
Be seeing you.
The Spanish Flu Revisited
In the late 1990s a perfectly preserved victim of the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed millions was discovered and exhumed:
From science daily:
n a mass grave in a remote Inuit village near the town of Brevig Mission, a large Inuit woman lay …
