Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…

1. Earlier this month, a mysterious woman appeared before a school board in Texas and claimed that, when she was 11, she READ A SCHOLASTIC BOOK THAT SPARKED A DEBILITATING PORN ADDICTION. We investigated. And it's ABSOLUTELY WILD what is happening. 🧵

Just published an article on the taste, color and odor of drugs in Renaissance medicine #RenTwitter #histmed #histsci ➡️ hcommons.org/deposits/item/…

battle rabbit, netherlands, ca. 1650

A picture is worth a thousand words. But what makes it a work of art? In a new video, see how two exhibitions at The Huntington reveal the craftsmanship behind printed works. bit.ly/48esjBm

Fantastic result for Vesalius' own annotated copy of the second edition of De humani coporis fabrica, just sold for over 2,2M $ in our New York online sale!

New Exhibition Focuses on Literature's Famous Revisions and Abandoned Works finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new…

Five extraordinary collections have been acquired by our Library! 🎉 Learn more about the new additions, which include Florence Nightingale's letters, rare photographs of the Philippines, and a 19th-century illustrated history of pine trees: bit.ly/3vWn8bV

DOUBLE Volvelle? Gotta love shopping the Newberry Library closet during book fair season! Vincenzo Coronelli, 1593 (Ayer 7 .C78 1693) #interactive

There is still time to register for today's "Secrets of the Stacks: Garden Edition" at 1 PM! If you love gardens and books, this webinar features an exciting discussion about internationally acclaimed botanical libraries. You can register through the link below!

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It’s here! It’s here! Reading Practice is out in the world! All credit to UChicagoPress, who did a brilliant job turning my words into this gorgeous thing.

It’s release day for READING PRACTICE! I’m so proud of this book & so grateful to all who helped along the way to its publication. FWIW, the paperback price is very reasonable—just one of many reasons I’m so glad to have published with UChicagoPress. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

My first day at The Warburg Institute as a fellow with the (Warburg/I Tatti fellowship), working on the interactions between gardeners and horticulturists and natural philosophers working with plants. The environmental knowledge of practitioners influenced theoretical studies of plants🌳

Los Angeles, are you ready for a parade?! #WorldSeries

The scope of architectural heritage lost in Altadena is going to be tragic. Here's the former home of mapmaker Andrew McNally (of Rand-McNally fame) that is completely lost. Craftsmanship like this can never be replaced. Full link to more interior photos in reply.

not to defend the robber barons but Andrew Carnegie, the richest man of his era, gave away 90 percent of his wealth and funded the building of 2,811 libraries, and I’m afraid the current crop of oligarchs isn’t sending their best.

Your health is at risk. My wife is a PhD microbiologist. She retired from the FDA in 2018. She and her team did vital research on food safety. They developed rapid testing methods for detecting pathogens (one of her tests was adopted by McDonalds). She was involved in identifying