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Society And History
Computers piece lore
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
More than 100 linked computers in a basement room at Tel Aviv University are reassembling the Cairo Geniza, a collection of 320,000 fragments of parchment and paper documents reflecting Jewish life in Egypt since the ninth century.
Giant returns
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2013
Mock advertisement
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
Cultural institutions in Serbia have launched a campaign against a new public procurement law that requires them to employ or purchase through public tenders everything from orchestral directors to the buttons on their tuxedoes. As part of the campaign, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra has published a satirical ad on its Facebook page.
Rap for ad
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
Someone at Mountain Dew thought it would be a hip idea to let African-American rapper Tyler-The Creator direct an online ad for them. Mountain Dew, a product of PepsiCo, targets younger men with its neon colour and high caffeine content and sometimes attempts to have edgier ads.
Knowledge commons
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
A photograph of one of the first hot air balloon flights; an 1833 map of the US showing an eagle “sitting atop the nation” and several accounts of the lives of the Native Americans during the 19th century. All these can now be accessed at the click of a mouse. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a non-profit initiative to create a large-scale public digital library, opened its virtual doors in April.
No jumping borders
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
The UK government has placed a temporary export bar on two oil paintings that gave the 18th Century British public their first chance to see what a kangaroo and a dingo looked like.
Trials at sea
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
Last January when Dutch teenager Laura Dekker became the youngest person to sail around the globe, her voyage caught media attention. But the focus of the world press was more on Dekker’s battle with reluctant Dutch authorities than on her sea tribulations.
Tsunami bomb
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
A new book has revealed rare historical gems buried in New Zealand’s national archives, including a bizarre World War II plan to create a “tsunami bomb” and military files detailing supposed UFO sightings. Author Ray Waru said he wrote Secrets and Treasures to highlight the material publicly available at Archives New Zealand in Wellington.
