09
Nov
Briefly Noted for November 9, 2022
Taylor Swift told us in the Folklore studio movie that the 5th track on each of her albums holds a
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07
Nov
Briefly Noted for November 7, 2022
With news that the new owner of Twitter has decided to sell verified accounts, I’ve decided to keep @foundhistory
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03
Nov
Briefly Noted for November 3, 2022
Nearly 200 years ago, the United States promised to seat a delegate from the Cherokee Nation in Congress as part
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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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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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