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Classic Reconsidered: Jurassic Park

January 15, 2019 Leave a Comment

One surefire way to make fossils exciting are to make them come to life—literally! Perhaps that's why Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park has become one of the hallmarks of American culture over the past thirty years. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading, Reviews Tagged With: classic reconsidered, fossils, january 2019

Classic Reconsidered: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

November 15, 2018 Leave a Comment

There aren't any classic novels about self-driving cars (at least not that we could think of). But there are plenty of classic novels about the thing that self-driving cars help you do: travel. And when it comes to futuristic journeys, one of the first that comes to mind is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading, Reviews Tagged With: classic reconsidered, november 2018, self-driving cars

Classic Reconsidered: Freakonomics

October 15, 2018 Leave a Comment

Freakonomics: It's an economics book with a silly name that become a best-seller, then spawned three follow-up books, and a blog, a radio show, and more.  It's kind of surprising for a nonfiction book like this to become such a phenomenon. But the authors would be the first to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading, Reviews Tagged With: classic reconsidered, october 2018, science, social science, theories upended

Classic Reconsidered: Walden (The Game)

August 15, 2018 Leave a Comment

https://youtu.be/OEJ_59hVPgw For our nature appreciation issue back in February, we recommended Henry David Thoreau's Walden as our classic reconsidered. So in true digital humanities style, we're returning to that classic—but in a new way. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading, Reviews Tagged With: august 2018, classic reconsidered, digital humanities

Classic Reconsidered: All of Them?

July 16, 2018 1 Comment

Graphs from "The Emotions of London," by Ryan Heuser, Franco Moretti, and Erik Steiner. Instead of looking at a classic work of literature this month, we're looking at all of them. Or, to be more precise, we're looking at a new way of looking at them. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recommended Reading, Reviews Tagged With: big data, classic reconsidered, july 2018

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