GO DAVID FERRIERO! Quote of the day: I want every stinking piece of this collection digitized,” Mr. Ferriero said. “I want it available to the world 24 hours a day.” No mere mortal can search across the nation’s rich archival and book databases, and life’s too short […]
My interview on Obama’s college debt plan: wish ABC had id’d me as Macaulay as well as CUNY @macaulayhonors
October 27, 2011 by
Happy tenth anniversary Macaulay, it was a great night @macaulayhonors.
October 27, 2011 by
FoodFest 2011: Macaulay building is rocking and cooking all day today! @Macaulayhonors
October 23, 2011 by
Congrats to Mike Lamb and the amazing Kenan Fellows! Special thanks to Mimi Sheraton for her workshop on food writing. Now I know why chocolate tastes so great!
“Letters to Sala” exhibition at Suffolk County Community College opening soon. Jill Vexler and I speaking on November 17@6p.
October 20, 2011 by
“Letters to Sala” exhibit opens November 17 in Selden, New York, at the Suffolk County Community College. Jill Vexler and I will be speaking on November 17@6p. Suffolk Center on the Holocaust, Diversity, and Human Understanding Suffolk County Community Center 533 College Road Selden, New York 11784
Best e-book and web developer in town happens to be Matt Stine: read how he made R.L.Stine even scarier on Kindle! http://bit.ly/qcE3ME #ereading
October 13, 2011 by
Whither or wither the university: here’s a good round-up of some useful facts and economic realities and signs of mostly good intentions. #university
October 10, 2011 by
Jobs on Apple’s DNA: “Technology married with liberal arts.”
October 10, 2011 by
It’s in Apple’s DNA that “technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” Then he illustrated this idea with a street sign at an imagined intersection between Technology and the Liberal Arts. Steven Johnson says in the WSJ: “He […]
ELLSWORTH FINDS ICE CAP RECEDING, Jan 14 1939
October 9, 2011 by
Lincoln Ellsworth, aboard the Wyatt Earp, responds to questions about whether the weather conditions are changing, says it’s too soon to tell, but that he can demonstrate the receding of the ice cap over three years. OK, now I’m ready to move on to a new temporary expertise.
GLOBAL WARMING noted by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1938
October 9, 2011 by
I’m temporarily an expert on Lincoln Ellsworth’s Antarctica Expeditions; his ship, the WYATT EARP, was in the news continuously during the period of Ellsworth’s expeditions, 1933-39. So aside from the constant mentions of Wyatt Earp, whose wife Josephine Earp is the subject of my next book, my eye was caught by an unexpected mention of […]