Is that a toad in a hat, running with his arms raised?
Stove Experiments
I'd been in a crappy mood for a couple of days, so I decided the best thing to do was to make something.
A Visualization of Punctuation in Literature (aka, Why I'm No Fan of Faulkner)
Adam Calhoun, a researcher and bookworm at Princeton, has created visualizations of the puncuatiation in great works of literature.
Umberto Eco
Fifteen years ago, I read The Island of the Day Before. It was a beautiful, thoughtful book, and I wrote the author a letter with no real hopes he would ever receive it.
Snowshoeing & A Haiku
There was a storm today, and afterwards I hiked around on untouched blankets of snow.
Winter Plowing, Artificial Intelligence & The End of the World
Using stories to teach behavior hinges heavily on which stories are told.
UT-Chattanooga froze books after flood, to save them
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga is still drying out after a burst sprinkler system caused a flood and some $48 million in damage. The library, in a recent recovery update, said it FROZE thousands of volumes to stop the spread of mold and is now sending them out for a specialized process.
"We froze some of the wet Library books after the flood as a way of preventing the development and spread of mold. Now these approximately 8,500 books are on the way to Texas for a special de-freeze process that helps to preserve the books as they thaw. We hope to have them back in 4-6 weeks. Upon return, we will review the items for integration back into the collection, or for replacement depending on the condition of the book."
Thousands of books are still being assessed for replacement.
