Marvels of Merlin revealed (Donna Ferguson, BBC News)
Researchers unveil a hidden medieval manuscript of Merlin and Arthur hidden in a Renaissance book.
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04, 2025
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02, 2025
Unscrolling the past with AI (Ian Sample, The Guardian)
New AI technology allows us to peer inside damaged writings from the past.
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02, 2025
Lost quiet (Sam Pyrah, The Guardian)
That living in silence is a lost, but needed, practice.
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12, 2024
Not easy reading (The Economist)
That the academic humanities engage in increasingly obscure jargon.
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12, 2024
Last words no longer lost (Dalya Alberge, The Guardian)
New technologies reveal etched writings for the first time.
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12, 2024
December fables for the present time.
From dogs to monkeys, fables speak for themselves.
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10, 2024
Columbus the wanderer (Sam Jones and Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian)
Researchers claim that DNA documents Columbus's Jewish ancestry.
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10, 2024
A Librarian’s Life in Her Letters: Belle Greene and the Morgan Library
Letters reveal the shaping of a public institution, the Morgan Library.
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09, 2024
The music of the fishes (Alessia Franco and David Robson, BBC Future)
How ancient oral traditions teach the rhythms and methods of fishing in Sicily.
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09, 2024
Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)
Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]