Walnut Creek Calif.

Land sharks, I’m sure

A preprint with summaries of a number of novels about academic life. I've read David Lodge but not any of the others. Recommendations? osf.io/preprints/me...

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Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.

Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)

A dystopian and post-topian view of the future of academic publishing, and the university world more generally. Well done. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What makes archaeology worthwhile. An email from a high school student in Afghanistan asking me for help learning more about his region’s history.

'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".

Yes, chimps can theoretically type all of Shakespeare, though the calculation is that the universe will end first. We need more monkeys! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hi ho, hi ho. MFA Boston

My second attempt at a post on bsky. First one got rejected for some unknown reason.

A full day listening to papers on the Amarna letters, virtually sent 3300 years ago, in a conference in DC. Thanks Eric Cline and Chris Rollston for organizing. It was worth getting up before dawn to listen.