The truth suffers when search algorithms become our educators.
Source: Google and the Misinformed Public – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Two professors at the University of Washington want to teach students how to survive the avalanche of false or misleading data shaken loose by shifts in media, technology, and politics.
Source: The Fine Art of Sniffing Out Crappy Science – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Donald Vass has been mending books in the Seattle area for 26 years, but his craft is a fading one.
Source: He Fixes the Cracked Spines of Books, Without an Understudy
How I lost, and found, my focus.
Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency
Source: The internet as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud | Aeon Essays
The book has always been a sign of status and refinement; a declaration of self-worth – even for those who hate to read
Source: Are book collectors real readers, or just cultural snobs? | Aeon Essays
Papyrus leaves, vellum and paper each have complicated and not at all intuitive ways of being made. In the case of papyrus, we may not fully know how it was produced in antiquity. These are some interesting videos on the production of each material.
Papyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCR8n7qS43w
Vellum or Parchment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-SpLPFaRd0
Pre-19th century/wood pulp paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmfdV_cZU