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Am I the meanest teacher? Maybe. I think I'm about to get a really terrible song stuck in my students' heads. But it's for Lear...

Just to be clear: Lady Gaga is about (primarily visual) spectacle, not about music per se. That's not to say that her spectacle is neces...

Just a quick post on some upcoming events. Reflections on MSA to follow shortly, I hope. First of all, a number of events associated with ...

I went to THATCamp Bay Area this past weekend. Roy Tennant from OCLC blogged about it briefly. I learned some new things, met some cool pe...

Well, I got hold of W. R. Butterfield (thanks, Southern Regional Library Facility!), and was amused by the bit of the succeeding article tha...

In searching around for more on W.R. Butterfield's "museum of ideas" (1912), I ran across this piece of current legislation: H...

I go into the Valley Life Sciences Building quite often to use the biology library, which is filled with treasures. Outside the library is a...

Because I live under a rock, I saw this video for the first time only recently. First of all, gendered muppets. Physically, Mahna Mahna is g...

The American Museum of Natural History has a vast collection of mollusk specimens, both "dry" (shells) and preserved in fluid. We...

Elliott Coues , 1842-1899 Coues was an ornithologist, naturalist, and (according to Wikipedia) army surgeon. I first ran across him in Frede...

The first chapter of Émile Zola's Nana (1879) is set in a theater. I was engrossed at once, but ... what was this about twins? Hey, twi...

I don't know whether it is still the case that fifth-graders in Newport News routinely visit the Mariners' Museum . I admit that whe...