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How to shelter from fallout after a nuclear attack on your city

From io9.com: Terrorists have detonated a low-yield nuclear warhead in your city. How long should you hide, and where, to avoid the worst effects of radioactive fallout? We talked to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory atmospheric scientist Michael Dillon to find out. Yesterday Dillon published a paper on this topic in the Proceedings of the Royal […]

Letter written by ten-year-old Hellen Keller

By Susan Martin, Collection Services, from the Massachusetts Historical Society: Those of us who process manuscript collections are always stumbling on interesting and unexpected finds. I was recently working with the MHS’s George E. Ellis papers to improve the arrangement and description of the collection, and one letter immediately caught my eye. It was written […]

High-Res Scan of Poe’s “Raven,” Illustrated by Doré

By Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing.com: The Library of Congress’s website hosts a high-resolution scan of a rare edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” illustrated by Gustave Doré. The title-page is at page 11, the list of illustrations is on page 14. The illustrations are amazing, like no other illustrated Poe I’ve seen. I’ve collected my […]

Mayonnaise Hatred: A Brief History of Mayo and Disgust

By David Merritt Johns from Slate.com: Near where I work there is a deli with a basket on the counter piled high with mayonnaise packets. They’re complimentary: If you buy a sandwich, you can take as many as you want. I know that decent folks nab just one or two, but I have a hard […]

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