Arkansas was trending on Twitter. Usually, that's never a good sign. I clicked to see what it was about and that led me to this tweet. The racism on display…
And so they retreat into dreams of private things: financial security - a home in the suburbs - a /'beer and a ballgame.' This is a troubling fact in a society that is counting on these same young Americans to solve the enormous problems of life in the twentieth century.
The next four years are going to be very exciting at the GBH Archives and for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. In January, we received a grant from the…
Photo by RODNAE Productions on Pexels.com You design an application. Users are supposed to add data in a certain way; however, you've built an assumption into the code without being…
I only worked at WGBH for two weeks before we all went remote with the idea that we'd be back in two weeks, three tops. Now, two years later, I'm…
For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory? ~1984 What do librarians do when there's a war? In Ukraine,…
I needed some transcripts with music in them. So, I grabbed the Thanksgiving Sermon and I've been transcribing the sermon of James A. Farmer Jr. Along the way, I've been thinking of monks copying and illuminating manuscripts, and this parallel feeling of doing something similar with modern technology.
Growing up in the '80s and '90s, Rocky Balboa held a certain appeal. He was the scrappy, American underdog who always came out on top. Recently, I was exploring the…
I think I’ll let your documentary put a cap on that story. I don’t know. I don’t know what I’d tell him, other than… I was part of the struggle. That’s the bottom line. I wasn’t one of those armchair revolutionaries.
The NY Times reports how computer scientists at M.I.T. developed a technique to read historic letters that are so fragile they cannot be opened. The new technique could open a…