Rachel Walsh, a student at the Cardiff School of Art and Design, was given the assignment ’Explain something modern/internet based to someone who lived and died before 1900.” She chose to… Read more »

The New York Times has reprinted author Mona Simpson’s eulogy to her brother Steve Jobs. She describes how Jobs invented new technologies, even until the end. The “technology” he used… Read more »

If you’re in New York and for some ungodly reason find yourself in midtown, you might want to swing by The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound on the… 2 / Read more »

From The New York Times article “Making the iBio for Apple’s Genius” by Janet Maslin: Correction: October 22, 2011 An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of… Read more »

At the time of writing, a Battle of Ideas is being fought at London’s totally dreamy Free Word Centre. The question: ‘Is it ever valid to judge literature with reference… 1 / Read more »

In what can only be called an incredible feat of conservation technology, a 1,000 year old text by Archimedes is now on view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.… Read more »

Our new website and online store launches today. As you can see, it’s completely re-designed: we’re particularly proud of the new homepage, these nifty product pages, and, of course, the… Read more »

Yesterday, Mary Speck reviewed Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth About Cuba Today for the Washington Post and said this about it: “With her vivid portraits of family and… Read more »

How do you take a 265,000-word novel and condense it into manageably sized, 140-character chunks? That’s the question one man seeks to answer this Thursday, June 16th, or Bloomsday, the… 1 / Read more »