aus der reihe "kompetenzen, über die ich bislang nicht nachgedacht habe" heute:
"Poetry as Knowledge in Librarianship: Inquiry, Identity, and Praxis"
https://bookstore.emerald.com/poetry-as-knowledge-in-librarianship-hb-978183…
in der #verschlagwortung diese woche: "Skaldic poetry as Christian propaganda: honouring Bishop Guðmundr Arason in fourteenth-century Iceland" (https://katalogplus.uni-muen…
#WINDRUSH GENERATION POETRY, PROSE & CALYPSO The RSA, London, England
Monday, Mar 2 from 6 pm to 8 pm GMT
Get ready for a vibrant in-person celebration featuring powerful poetry, captivating prose, and the infectious rhythms of calypso!
Dive into stories and sounds that bring the Windrush Generation's legacy to life.
It's all about culture, history, and good vibes…
Radical activist and eventual poet laureate William Wordsworth, once proclaimed:
"Men who do not wear fine clothes can feel deeply."
Read "Michael" and understand what he was going on about: https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/michael-pastoral-poem…
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45533/nutting
Tall and erect, with tempting clusters hung,
A virgin scene!
"Don't use LLMs for that!"
every #AI agent idea is like
"okay so I made an AI trained on all poetry, it only understands poems, for any event it can tell you the most poetic next event but it doesn't understand ethics only what's poetic"
okay perfect so I added a system prompt that says "pretend you understand the ethics of war"
Guided by her conviction that science is for everybody,
Prescod-Weinstein renders accessible some of the most abstract concepts of theoretical physics
and draws on poetry and popular culture
—from Queen Latifah to Lewis Carroll to Big K.R.I.T. to Sun Ra and Star Trek
— to tell fascinating stories about the fundamental quantum nature of space-time and everything inside of it.
Extremely active Sun from 1190 to 1220 in the Medieval Period - intercomparison of historical records and tree-ring carbon-14: #SpaceWeather: https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/4/10/medieval-japanese-poetry-and-buried-trees-help-elucidate-volatile-space-weather - combining carbon-14 measurements taken at the highest level of precision with historical literature lays a new foundation for studying unpredictable and hazardous solar proton events.
I like "ash" as an abbreviation precisely cuz of that momentary ambiguity. unintentional poetry. cold ash
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Scotland Rocks
Kenneth Steven explores the history of this semi-precious stone and reflects in poetry on his finds. The first stone he found was serpentine from the beaches of the island of Iona.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024mff