Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s already moving toward 30 F here (and, yes, that’s 30 above zero), so I can offer you these varia and quick hits from balmy comfort.
But if you swing the PC way, you should certainly check out this 30 minute, public history-esque, movie about the history of IBM on their Centennial. The film is by Errol Morris and the music by Philip Glass.
The University of North Dakota is apparently the 9th most “popular” university in the U.S. based on the percentage of admitted students who attend.
Some interesting thoughts on the recent upsurge in our interest in “ruin porn” based on the city of Detroit.
The Axis of Access has sprung back to life with a really nice image of Ryan Stander’s studio (our former dean would certainly not approve!) and his pictures of New York and the Flatiron building at night are brilliant.
The History Blogging Project in the U.K. is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It’s a pretty cool initiative designed to – get this – encourage Ph.D. students in history to blog.
I was sort of underwhelmed by the Rome Reborn project when I first saw it and so I didn’t pay much attention to it, but the most recent rendering of the city is pretty remarkable.
It seems like the Lumina Foundations’s “Degree Qualification Profile” has generated remarkably little buzz. It’s hard to know exactly how important a document like this is.
If you haven’t read yesterday’s post over at Teaching Thursday, you should because lots of other people are reading it.
What I’m reading: T. Walsh, Unlocking the Gates: How and why leading universities are opening up access to their courses. (Princeton 2011)
What I’m listening to: No Age, Everything in Between.
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