Does the magic live within the words?
A TED-Ed Original explores the question of what makes a book a book.
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Day in the life
May 24, 2016
Agnes de Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance
Kara Ann Gardner
Oxford University Press
Organometallic Chemistry
The chemistry of compounds containing metal–carbon bonds.
Art = hundreds of thousands of index cards
For the “Wonder” exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Tara Donovan constructed ten towers, 8 to 13 feet tall, by stacking and gluing hundreds of thousands of index cards on top of each other.
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Buffalo Small Press Book Fair
The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair is a  two-day event that brings booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, INDEXERS, and others together in a venue where they can share ideas, showcase their stuff, and peddle their wares.
This year’s event will take place on Saturday, April 9th from noon to 6pm and Sunday April 10th from 11am-5pm at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Porter Hall, 453 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY. This event is free and open to the public.
Right and wrong
“I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.”
C.D. Wright (who died yesterday)
Read some of C.D. Wright’s poetry here.
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Jacob A. Riis at the Museum of the City of New York
“Five Cents a Spot†(circa 1890) Credit Jacob A. Riis, Museum of the City of New York
Through March 20, the Museum of the City of New York is presenting “Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half.â€Â This heart-rending retrospective reprises and expands upon the museum’s exhibitions in 1947 and 1995, which celebrated Riis as an amateur photographer, and unites its own collection of his spectral images, the world’s largest, with 125 letters, manuscripts and other printed material and artifacts from the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress. More …
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Contractor economy
Sara Horovitz, director and founder of the Freelancers Union, spoke to President Obama at the White House Summit on Worker Voice.
See the full video.
Dear authors,
See also this related post.
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