CNN: AI's Effects On The Brain – MIT Media Lab Study: Using AI Could Cost You Brainpower

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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It’s okay to be a Luddite

Samuel Johnson Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

#OTD in 179 #English #lexicographer and #writer Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield. He made lasting contributions as a poet, literary critic, and lexicographer. The ODNB calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history"

Excited for day 3 of #NASSR2025! Such excellent talks so far on Wordsworth’s Commons, Thinking in Common, and Shelby Johnson’s brilliant keynote “William Apess’s Indiginous Commons.” Today more Clare and Shelley and Joseph Albernaz’s “Common Time.” Glad Romanticism is alive and well!

People gathered at the sea front, Weymouth: some are looking up and pointing to a hot-air balloon in the sky. Tinted lithograph.

This year, the world celebrates 250 years of Jane Austen, one of the English language’s most beloved novelists. Discover some of the places that Jane Austen lived, or that inspired locations in her works and their TV and film adaptations.➡️ bit.ly/41u5ecb

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New Aphra Behn Statue

ICYMI: “Queen Camilla Unveils New Aphra Behn Statue”
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Statue designer Christine Charlesworth said, "My Aphra is walking but glancing behind her because she is carrying interesting things such as a theatre masks and she has a secret message up her sleeve." #aphrabehn

Poster for the Austen Turner exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by CECS.

At CECS, 2025 is a big year for us because 1775 was, too. We’ve been co-curating a 250th exhibition on Jane Austen and JMW Turner at Harewood House. More info in the coming weeks, so watch this space. #AustenTurner #18thC #JaneAusten Ticket info: harewood.org/events/auste...

Silvia Federici on The Arcana of Reproduction [book-strip index="1" style="buy"] The Arcana of Reproduction is a unique book in the world of Marxist feminism. Generally, Marxist feminists have elaborated on the methodological significance of Marx...

Read Silvia Federici's foreword to The Arcana of Reproduction by Leopoldina Fortunati, which is part of our International Women's Day sale

March 8 is International Women's Day For over a century the world has celebrated International Women's Day to honor women's movements around the globe and to bring attention to the battles still being fought to achieve equality. We're ce...

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Painting of a sunset over water, by the artist Turner

We’re excited to share that this year we're taking part in #Turner250, a year-long celebration marking 250 years since the birth of JMW Turner! 🖼️ 🎨 🖌️

📅 Our exhibition 'Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries' will run from 23 May-14 September 2025.

More details coming soon!

How Curiosity Can Make Tough Conversations Manageable | Dartmouth

Author Mónica Guzmán shared tips for constructive dialogue that center around being sincere and openly eager to learn about each other’s experiences and perspectives during her recent visit to #Dartmouth.

The Urizen Cycle - The Blake Society Annise Rogers discusses Blake's character Urizen, and and proposes 'The Urizen Cycle' as a way of understanding his mythological system.

THE URIZEN CYCLE, Wed 26 February, 7:30 PM (UK time) on zoom. Dr Annise Rogers discusses Blake's central character Urizen, and proposes 'the Urizen Cycle' as a new way of understanding his mythological system.
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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...

How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

How Bridgerton’s real life Lady Whistledown scandalised 18th-century society The subversive work of Eliza Haywood, the feminist forerunner of the TV show’s gossip columnist, is about to be republished

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date inscribed Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1939

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“I am, in short, an heteroclite, or irregular verb, which can never be declined or conjugated." - Leticia Pilkington, Memoirs, 1748

Engraved drawing of a person at a desk leaning over a book and papers, and writing with a pen.

Title page of an engraved book. At the top is “The” in an italic, “Universal Penman” in a blackletter with many flourishes, “Engrav’d” in a script, and “By George Bickham” in a roman.

George Bickham (engraver), The Universal Penman, London, 1736.

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