My suspicions were raised about the authenticity of this email when the President of the university misspelled his own name. image
AHAB (All Harpooners Are Bastards)
Library? Library! image
Cambridge’s Newnham College has digitized a lifetime manuscript of a work by Christine de Pizan, the earliest professional female writer in Europe. image
Harvard will transfer five daguerreotypes, believed to be the earliest photographs of enslaved people, from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in South Carolina, the state where they were enslaved in 1850 when the photos were taken.
I found the worst seat you can have for Commencement—at the back right behind where the Widener steps jut out. There are seats further away with no sightline to the stage, but they have big screens set up. I suspect from here you can see literally nothing. image
Wildlife rehabilitation workers have to wrap up sharp-clawed owls during treatment for their own protection as well as the owls’. And then they take pictures for their blog Owls in Towels. via [@metafilter]( ) image
When we eventually have to flee America and head north I’m hoping my knowledge of Great Big Sea will allow me to blend in seamlessly.
An exquisite embroidered and pearl-studded binding for a 17th century English psalmbook at the Library of Congress. image
Does anybody remember a commercial from years ago in which a nerdy AMC Gremlin fan finds his soulmate in the form of a sexy Swedish lady who greets him “Howdy, Gremster!”?