How Canada’s Second World War rationing was done by the book| Legion Magazine
A 760-year-old western red cedar reveals centuries of history and Indigenous culture! Discover how museum experts prepared this monumental tree cookie for display at its special exhibition, The Man Who Planted Trees: An Immersive Tale.| Canadian Museum of Nature
In 1979, cultural historian Steven Watson interviewed Marsha P. Johnson, who would have turned 80 today, outside the Stonewall Inn, 10 years after the uprising that forged the modern gay rights movement. The post “Big Tits and a Pair of Hot Pants”: Into the Archives For Marsha P. Johnson’s 80th Birthday appeared first on Interview Magazine.| Interview Magazine
Reproducibility is a cornerstone of scientific progress, yet in systems research, it remains a persistent challenge. Over the past five years, the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process at the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) has aimed to address this challenge head-on. In this blog post, we reflect on what we have learned from organizing AE ... Read more| ACM SIGOPS
Left unchecked, consumerism has negative implications for our planet and future generations. In this post, we will explore its effects on individuals and society.| The Smalley Creative Blog
by Lauren Ciriac Wenger It may seem like Christmas traditions that we cherish have been around forever. The Christmas tree, sending Christmas cards, exchanging gifts, and Santa Claus traveling on … Continue reading The Development of the Modern Christmas→ The post The Development of the Modern Christmas appeared first on Visit The Hershey Story Museum.| Visit The Hershey Story Museum
by Lauren Ciriac Wenger When Milton Hershey planned to build a chocolate factory and develop a community around it, he returned to the area in which he grew up. It … Continue reading How Trolleys Helped Hershey Thrive→ The post How Trolleys Helped Hershey Thrive appeared first on Visit The Hershey Story Museum.| Visit The Hershey Story Museum
By Ajay Gandhi. This essay uses three kinds of artifacts to frame connections between Asia, Europe, and Latin America, between the 1500s and the present. These items – simultaneously tangible things and symbolic projections – plot a method and chronology of entanglement. The first are precious-metal decorations made in Goa, on India’s western coast, for Portuguese patrons. A second is a 17th-century painting of a young slave from India taken to the Netherlands. The third artifact is the...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
Hasidic royalty can get very ostentatious. These photos were circulating...| Frieda Vizel
A precious collection of mine| Frieda Vizel
Flavors of Horror| The Benign Brown Beast
In this review, I will briefly summarize arguments by Diego Parente and Luciano Mascaró in their recent article…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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"I haven't written anything for three years," he admitted in the note, which will go to auction this summer| Smithsonian Magazine
– contributed by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. The collections of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology are rich with treasures that tell the history of psychology over its roughly 150 ye…| Cummings Center Blog
Over-the-Air (OTA) firmware updates are table stakes for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Once a device is in the field, OTA means you can make changes by updating the firmware remotely. The ability to update devices remotely is great, but that alone is the bare minimum of functionality. Options for targeting specific devices for each […]| The Golioth Developer Blog