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How do robots and researchers work together to turn archives into art?

This ‘Marginalia Machine’ copies out the notes and scribbles in the margins of archival manuscripts from digitized files. Researchers also set up a bot to automatically detect handwritten annotations in the scanned manuscripts and post images of the marginalia to Twitter. So think carefully about the notes you make in library books.

Spring comic. Spring is when I miss living in the woods in Wisconsin the most, cool plants, morel mushrooms, my mom pulling wood ticks off my head… just wonderful.

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A Storm Chaser’s Unforgiving View of the Sky

We are changing the face of the sky. And we are altering its mood; scientists hesitate to link specific storms to global warming, but it’s clear that, on the whole, climate change is making extreme-weather events more powerful and, perhaps, more common. When we look up, increasingly the face we see is ours. In the photographer Camille Seaman’s cloudscapes, it’s difficult to not also see humankind’s self-portrait: potent, defiant, unforgiving. Clouds always tell a true story, Ralph Abercromby said, and more than ever the story they tell is the story of ourselves. Where that story will take us is difficult to read.