Good news: The Harvard Gazette is going to come and do a story on my Banned Books Week popup exhibition next Thursday afternoon! (Open to the public, please stop by if you're around.)

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"Banned in Boston (and Beyond)" Pop-up Exhibition

For as long as there have been books, there have been those who found their content objectionable, and have sought to prevent them from reaching re...

Bad news: I have a week to make sure I'm at published-in-Harvard's-official-newspaper levels of knowing what I'm talking about.

I'm going in a couple of hours to get this year's flu vaccination. I neglected a lot of important health stuff for many years because (among other reasons) of intense needle-phobia. I have lately adopted this advice, substituting "anxiety" for "cat".

We're getting to the time of year when it's important to have a qualified visual inspection of household chimneys to guard against hazardous obstructions, so don't forget to get your flue shot.

What the hell, Autocomplete?

Dr. Sophie Herzog was buried in 1925 at the age of 79 in a necklace made of the bullets she extracted from the bodies of Wild West gunslingers.

Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections

Doctor Sofie Herzog: The Gunfighter’s Physician

Circulating Now welcomes guest author Chris Enss, to share the story of Doctor Sofie Herzog, one of several women doctors featured in her book The ...

Ten Watergates a day is a DDOS on American democracy.

"Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump administration to link the drug to autism, a connection experts say is tenuous at best."

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two ye...

Harvard Gazette covers the new exhibition I co-curated "Fashion Police."

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Harvard exhibit on the policing women’s fashion — Harvard Gazette

Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.

"Over the past five years, SHARP has supported 25 scholars through its Research Development Grants for BIPOC Scholars. The decision to stop issuing these grants stems from the potential risk to SHARP's non-profit status as a US-registered organization, a risk posed by an Executive Order that seeks to ban the privileging of a person's racialized identity in selection and evaluation processes."

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Paleontologists Discover Earliest Known Dome-Headed Dinosaur in Excellent Condition, Shedding Light on Its Mysterious Anatomy | Flipboard

Smithsonian Magazine - Dome-headed dinosaurs, officially called pachycephalosaurs, are one of the “most enigmatic” creatures from the Cretaceou...