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So my memory for myself and history must be sagging because I completely forgot about the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb being …

I’m posting some brief notes on the presentations from JCDL 2015. Here are some thoughts and notes from the first day. Panel on …

A brief excerpt in Today’s Professor newsletter from a book edited by Chad Hanson. In the past 20 years, scholars and …

Powers joins the ranks of people who are critical of our ‘always-on’ connected world and calls for more people to take time …

Brust and White tell the story of a small group of people who have been manipulating human history for millennia by gradually changing …

A mid-century classic which is little known. William Stoner grows up a poor farmer’s son, he goes to college to study agriculture …

The following are some preliminary thoughts on scale, epistemology, the social/human sciences, and philosophy spurred by some recent …

I spoke on a panel last week about citizen science and open data. The panel was one of the events put on by the University of Alberta …

A recent article at Aeon magazine proposed that one of the master symbols of twentieth century biology, the double-helix structure of …

This post is a partial response to a post at the CLIR blog on information ecology and morality by Timothy Norris. In 1999 Bonnie Nardi …