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Oct
23
Using Instagram Stories to post classic literature

Using Instagram Stories to post classic literature

Hacking Instagram Stories in the name of classic literature … By embracing the changing times, we were able to get hundreds
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Oct
22
A list of common errors in English

A list of common errors in English

What is an error in English? The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists
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Oct
19
Hyphenation rules? What hyphenation rules?

Hyphenation rules? What hyphenation rules?

A FEW WEEKS AGO, CJR WROTE about a disturbance in the force caused by what was perceived as sudden and
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Sep
07
A job of the future - scifi authors imagine future threats for the French military

A job of the future - scifi authors imagine future threats for the French military

The French military wants to figure out what its armed forces might face in the future. To help, it’s
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Sep
04
Google has added new fonts that improve reading speed to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Google has added new fonts that improve reading speed to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

The Google Fonts team has teamed up with Thomas Jockin to create a series of fonts that are aimed at
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Aug
29
Disney's free Imagineering in a Box teaches storytelling

Disney's free Imagineering in a Box teaches storytelling

Source: Storytelling | Arts and humanities | Khan Academy Disney’s Imagineering in a box consists of two different takes on the
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Aug
20
73% of books released between 1924 and 1963 are in the public domain

73% of books released between 1924 and 1963 are in the public domain

But! A recent NYPL project has paid for the already-digitized registration records to be marked up as XML. (I was
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Jul
20
100 hundred fun facts about language from the Allusionist Podcast

100 hundred fun facts about language from the Allusionist Podcast

This is the Allusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, have talked about language and why and how we use it
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