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...clicks in HOLLIS may now save you a trip to Widener Library, as tens of thousands of scanned books become electronically available through Harvard’s library catalog in the next few weeks. Eventually, all of the University’s library books digitized as part of the Google Books Library Project will be made directly accessible through links in the online HOLLIS system. For instance, a student looking for the 1850 book “Antitrinitarian Biography” by Robert Wallace, a three-volume tome on Unitarianism, can get to it simply by clicking...
...shared witty anecdotes (when President George H. W. Bush’s dog had puppies, speechwriters “played them up for all they were worth,” scoring a “puppy bounce” in the polls), incorporated audience-appropriate cultural references (likening her catalog of rhetorical devices to a word list from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”), and took logistical details in stride (making a swift transition from highlighting video clips to asking for audience questions during a technical glitch). The tutorial “really went into...
...Architecture, who spearheaded the effort to bring the exhibit to Harvard. “Artists liked it in the ’70s because they weren’t considered precious objects.”The project contains approximately 700 works of video art, all on VHS tapes and cataloged by title and artist name, available for free to watch in the gallery or to check out and watch at home.Longtime collaborators Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle first put together the video rental project in 2004, as an artistic experiment in circulation models.Vidokle owns the E-flux Corporation, an online...
...People write about auctions now the way they write about movie-box-office results," says Zemaitis. When he got to Sotheby's in 2003, he says, less than 5% of the catalog consisted of postwar design. Now it constitutes more like 60% to 70% of the 20th century auctions. Big prices have attracted a whole new audience too: art collectors and investors looking for something to furnish their real estate investments, or younger collectors in their 30s and 40s who are not interested in the decorative collectibles their parents treasured...
Many people would feel a lot better about psychiatry were there definitive tests for its catalog of disorders. For now, its practitioners make judgments on the basis of checklists and observation - solid methodology as far as it goes, but not the same as, say, a blood test for anaemia or an x-ray of a broken femur. In the search for a test offering this kind of diagnostic certainty in mental illness, two Australian researchers believe they've made a leap. Gin Malhi and Jim Lagopoulos, from the department of psychological medicine at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital, report...