John Overholt

My colleague the Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts just got something amazing—a Spanish technology encyclopedia from the 1910s full of multilayer plates to see inside all the machines.

PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.

A week after Pearl Harbor, an Italian professor at Penn details the Fascist persecution that forced him to flee the country.

“My Desire of Breathing a Free Air”: Giorgio Levi Della Vida Letter as an “enemy alien,” December 1941 – Unique at Penn

My brain woke me up to tell me that everyone’s very clever in the Canny Valley.

Mrs. Chicken, are you trying to seduce me?

The simple edit you need to make Fairytale of New York usable is “braggart”. You’re welcome.

I'm taking a shift as the lobby greeter this morning and my most important role so far has been chasing down people who tentatively peer in the door but are afraid to come in. By god you're going to experience the joy of special collections if I have anything to say about it!

The 1884 case that established the precedent that even if you’re shipwrecked and starving, it is not OK to just decide you’re going to eat the cabin boy.

Harvard Magazine

The 1884 Cannibalism-at-Sea Case That Still Has Harvard Talking | Harvard Magazine

The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens changed the course of legal history. Here’s why it’s been fodder for countless classroom debates.

Fediverse Gone Wild

I’m sure it’s nothing.