Briefly Noted

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Sep
Briefly Noted for September 9, 2025

Briefly Noted for September 9, 2025

This week in my DMD 2010: History of Digital Culture class, I've been teaching the history and theory
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26
Aug
Briefly Noted: AI links for back-to-school

Briefly Noted: AI links for back-to-school

As a new semester begins, I'm pretty sure we're all thinking about how AI will affect
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03
Aug
Briefly Noted for August 3, 2025: Some Good News for the Humanities

Briefly Noted for August 3, 2025: Some Good News for the Humanities

For those of us in the humanities, the last 20 years have often felt like a siege. But maybe we’
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02
Dec
Briefly Noted for December 7, 2022

Briefly Noted for December 7, 2022

Must read: Timothy Burke’s recent blogging on the implications of new AI technologies (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc.) for teaching and
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Nov
Briefly noted for November 23, 2022

Briefly noted for November 23, 2022

It looks like the theme of this week's Briefly Noted post is Substack. I didn’t intend it,
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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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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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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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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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Aug

Briefly Noted for August 21, 2018

Test everything; retain what is good. 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 5