01
Nov
Farewell, Twitter
Yesterday, I decided to deactivate my Twitter account. I'm just waiting to download my archive (if that remains
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Tom Scheinfeldt
Tom is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Connecticut. He writes about history, technology, digital humanities, design, higher education, and (sometimes) politics.
07
Oct
Why STEM can't answer today's hard questions
If STEM wants to solve the big problems, it's going to have to solve for more than technical questions, but also for the values questions that precede them
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19
Aug
Connecticut as Borderland
Anne is from New York City (Stuyvesant Town, on the Lower East Side). I was born in Hartford and raised
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27
May
Briefly Noted for May 27, 2021
I read Zach Carter's magisterial biography of John Maynard Keynes, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the
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30
Apr
Sourcery: “Disruption,” Austerity, Equity, and Remote Access to Archives
I’ve spent the last 24 hours thinking about and responding to Mark Matienzo’s recent post about Sourcery and
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25
Nov
Correspondence Course
During the depths of the lockdown in March, I imagined a course for our times that would be completely free
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24
Nov
Briefly Noted for November 24, 2020
I just finished Alan Mikhail's God's Shadow, an excellent history of the Ottoman Empire told through
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20
Nov
Farming in the Suburbs
I write bad poetry from time to time. I use this space to record it. I wrote this one in
09
Aug
Rethinking ROI
This semester I'll be co-chairing our President's "Life-Transformative Education" task force, a signature initiative
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24
Oct
Briefly Noted for October 24, 2018
Caitlin Flanagan's eloquent description of how histories, true or false, operate in families (e.g. Elizabeth Warren'
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