23 aprile giornata internazionale del #LIBRO

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The first thing you'll see when you enter the IAEA Lise Meitner Library is this Knowledge Accelerator sculpture. It's made up of 800+ discarded books and each one served as an accelerator for new knowledge in its day.
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PEN America Statement Regarding the 2024 Literary Awards Ceremony and Conferral of Annual Prizes pen.org/press-release/…

Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims via ⁦Guardian Books⁩ theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies. bit.ly/49FV5Lq #UShistory #language

The thirtieth and final volume of the print edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin was published last year, completing an endeavor begun in the mid-1970s. What have we learned from this dazzling collection of letters? bit.ly/3vYLKAB

Daniel Dennett obituary via ⁦Guardian Books⁩ theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Two centuries on, Greece loves Byron more than ever via ⁦Guardian Books⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

CogniLore is excited to announce the release of the proLibro eReader trial software, for the Microsoft Windows platform. This offers access to a selection of popular Project Gutenberg titles in an enhanced format.
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'Ground inflation test on Echo 1, the world’s first passive communications satellite.'

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Noah Webster’s roles in the formation of the early United States were many, but it’s his 1828 dictionary for which he is remembered. bit.ly/49FV5Lq #UShistory #language #independence

‘Most women philosophers before the late 20th century needed something more: access to a man who held the uncommon view that women – or at least certain women – could be serious thinkers too. The odds were long.’

Sophie Smith on women philosophers: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Interview: The Three-Body Problem author Liu Cixin “My novel is not a metaphor for US-China tensions” via ⁦The Chosun Daily⁩ chosun.com/english/long-r…

Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims via ⁦Guardian Books⁩ theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Why Kant's philosophy is still relevant amid today's wars via ⁦DW News⁩ dw.com/en/why-immanue…

Own your ignorance lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/… via London Review of Books

Born #onthisday in 1840, the French symbolist artist Odilon Redon. Known for his surreal and often haunting imagery, some of his most stunning works are his illustrations for Flaubert's failed masterpiece Temptation of St Anthony: buff.ly/3nbwgzy #OTD

Mirror (1975, Tarkovsky)

'Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.'

--- Andrei Tarkovsky

The Contrived Rivalry Between Two Pioneering French Women Artists via ⁦hyperallergic⁩ hyperallergic.com/900981/the-con…

T. S. Eliot’s admiration of P. G. Wodehouse was said to be “just this side of idolatry”, Douglas Adams named him a “great genius” who “writes pure word music”. Read Wodehouse's Leave it to Psmith (1923) here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/le…