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Archeoastronomy uses the rare times and places of previous total solar eclipses to help us measure history
https://theconversation.com/archeoastronomy-uses-the-rare-times-and-places-of-pre…

🎨 Unruly Writing: On the Problem with the Fragmented Art History Book
https://lithub.com/unruly-writing-on-the-problem-with-the-fragmented-art-history-book/

Unruly Writing: On the Problem with the Fragmented Art History Book
There is a disturbing trend that has emerged in the literary world as of late. Let’s call it the “Fragmented Non-Fiction Art History” book. These titles look good on bookshelves, with their aesthet…

Good Morning #Canada
My daughters have commented that we'd all be better off if there was an International Men's Day and women ran the planet the other 364 days of the year. I'd have to agree.
But it's #InternationalWomensDay so let's celebrate some Canadian women tra…

Florida School Requires Permission Slip for Kids to Participate in Black History Month Events, Citing Ron DeSantis's "Parents' Bill of Rights" (Bess Levin/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/florida-sc

Florida School Requires Permission Slip for Kids to Participate in Black History Month Events, Citing Ron DeSantis’s “Parents’ Bill of Rights”
“Something feels very off here, and the fact that the school needs to cover themselves against the state feels even worse.”

Historian Jade McGlynn: Putin 100% believes Russia’s distorted history: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/08/historian-jade-mcglynn.html

A History of C Compilers - Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
The first part of a whistle stop tour of the history of C compilers. Also GNU/Linux, dragons and lots of architectures!
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/a-history-of-…

Freedom and Portability
Let's talk compilers with part one of a whistle stop tour of their history

Short blog post with a very short history of #datascience based on my hands-on Data Science Introduction --> https://medium.com/@f.huber/ver…

Very short history of Data Science: Why now? (and no, is not the same as Statistics!)
For Data Science to appear many factors were needed. Here a short introduction to what Data Science is and what it is based on.

Shame serves a corrective purpose. We clearly need it. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/08/history-is-watching/

"History Is Watching" - emptywheel
For one night at the State of the Union last night, Joe Biden deployed political shame.

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Inside the Worst Start in Colorado Rockies History
#MLB #Baseball #JustBaseball