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Of Papyrus and Video

Too expensive to wrap fish in…. Ever wonder why Linear B, the Greek script, goes from right to left? So do Hebrew and Arabic… while English, French, Italian and all western languages go from left to right? Here’s a...

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Huh?

I’ll get to this one later… The New York Times reports today that the National Endowment for the Arts reports today (which is a lot of reporting going on today), that reading among the young is dropping at a...

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Magna Carta and the Video Revolution

read it and weep…. Sotheby’s, the auction house, recently announced that a rare copy of the Magna Carta, signed by King John I in 1215 is to be auctioned off. Once owned by Ross Perot, the document is expected...

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