A rather poignant example of the future we create through micro decisions—whether to use AI, software, etc. This is what Word suggested for my essay about a 16th century poem (Donne’s Twickenham Garden)
Ashley Howard
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Ecocriticism | early modern | soundscapes 🌻 “I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree” PhD Candidate @ U of British Columbia
Odysseus to Sinon: “You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just, literally, 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery”
For all the criticism of Nolan’s film, I’d like to see just one review written in dactylic hexameter
Hidden within the rings of ancient trees is an archive stretching back thousands of years. Today’s Essay explores the exciting discoveries dendrochronologists have made through decoding these rings. buff.ly/rmzOhXq
if u like dog+history, #icymi the "Dogges Names of Olde" print is $5 & uses actual 15th-century dog names from historical records (people named their dogs "best of all" centuries ago 😭 that one in the print is from my cartoon of my best hound Maple) store.wolfproofpress.com/product/dogg...
Hearing about these poems was the highlight I needed this week! I first came to A.M. Juster through his translations of Milton’s latin poems—such a wonderful poet and person
New Verse Review@newversereview.bsky.social · 7mo agonewversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...
The english muffin is the finest carb. With fresh basil from the garden!
Know you’re getting old when a group of students thanks you when they leave the elevator, like public transit 😅
If the new Stephen Greenblatt book (…thriller novel?) gives me more distress than excitement, have I levelled up as a scholar?
“Loanword” and “borrowed” are so funny. Will the languages one day come knocking, asking for their lexemes back?
I avoid AI text partly to spare myself future embarrassment. It's like editing photos in the 2000s and thinking no one could tell (harsh vignette, over exposed—so natural). I think we’ll look back and cringe 😬
Opened a favourite book from my shelf and this guy crawled out. The book is about insects, or “lesser living creatures,” so I’m pretty sure the spider is a paid actor :)
Cooking in the Archives is 11! 🎉 I still love the first recipe on the site: Maccarony Cheese. rarecooking.com/2014/06/30/m...
Maccarony Cheese
For our inaugural recipe, we thought, why not start with an eighteenth-century mac-and-cheese? It’s a modern-day American classic and perhaps the ultimate comfort food. This recipe co…
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Something very west coast about watching a man outside the coffee shop light his cigar with a kitchen torch
Join us on April 24 for a lively discussion of how teaching Spenser can solve the crisis of attention in the classroom! Or at least distract us from other crises. Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
One for the editing crowd! Shown here with two photos to compare, in the spirit of collation
If you’re near DC, I highly recommend seeing “A Room in the Castle” at the Folger Theatre. It’s a truly fantastic adaptation about the women in Hamlet 💛
Generally good advice for all of life’s troubles. (What is stress if not a personal earthquake?)
Laure Stevens-Lubin's redesigned website is live, exploring ecosystems and human-systems: laurestevenslubin.com
Planning a research trip to DC, and learned that Spike is now at the National Zoo! Possibly more exciting than visiting the Folger. It’ll be my first time seeing him in 12 years 🐘
Does Trump mean this version of the golden age, where the guilty king is devoured by his terrible deeds and overthrown by his own child?
A bookish question—what does it mean when a poem is signed with “utcunque”? All I’ve got for the poet’s name: “L. M. utcunque P”