I was listening to a podcast where they mentioned the classic movie trope of the main character probing the secret past of a town by looking through the microfilmed newspapers at the library, but they kept calling it "microfiche" despite explicitly referring to scrolling through reels and I really had to fight the urge to to write an lengthy email about the differences in the formats.
Not to mention microopaques!
"The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.
The quiet removals came as FAS — which houses the College, Harvard’s undergraduate school — announced internally on Wednesday afternoon that it would shutter its diversity office and replace it with an Office for Academic Culture and Community."
“Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box… Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition.
A closer look revealed the 5-foot-long document was a handwritten declaration titled ‘A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery,’ signed by 116 New England ministers in Boston and adopted March 2, 1847. Until its discovery… American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery document had been lost forever.”
I don’t post about golf on here because I know nobody but me cares, but this might be of general enjoyment. Today’s tournament is now on its third playoff hole with the trophy engraver anxiously awaiting the outcome—it takes her about a minute per letter to add the winner’s name.
The playoff is between Aldrich Potgieter and Max Greyserman. We could be here all night.
