Trump Administration subpoenas I-9 employment eligibility forms for every Harvard employee. Mine was recorded in secretary hand so good luck reading it.
Oh, this is amazing (and not at all what I pulled this looking for)—it’s a 1789 essay written in the persona of the long S at the time when it is starting to fall out of use, complaining about the preference being given to “my crooked brother”. image
You see, a fax machine was basically how you would send an email attachment before you could… Oh, well, an email attachment is like when you need to send a file… You know what, never mind.
I am really delighted that @Dorothea Salo and @npub16puc...ptec alerted me to this anti-glove scene in Foundation and that my wife alerted me that she was about to cancel Apple TV now that Murderbot is over.
BREAKING: "Newbery and Caldecott, chinchilla brothers who live at Wild Rumpus Books. are named for two of the most prestigious awards in children’s literature." image
It's the gift that keeps on giving--a number of years ago a disastrous record-merging misfire at OCLC left a bunch of records with hilariously incorrect summaries and subject headings, and every once in a while I turn up another one in our catalog. This 16th century edition of Sappho is not in fact a paranormal thriller. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990063130680203941/catalog image
I’ve got one case figured out for my War of Words exhibition next summer (though it’s the case that comes last) on the Revolution in memory. Featuring the manuscript of Paul Revere’s Ride, Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, a button dug up from the Battle of Bunker Hill (currently in Conservation) and a label from Houghton’s exhibition for the Bicentennial. image
I can only experience dopamine release when my posts are amplified. Boost if you agree.
The Science History Institute has a terrifying little collection of vintage pesticides. image