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Sometimes I really marvel at the books that have been written and published. Like this 850 page reference book on London coffee shops across three centuries. Awesome.

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In 2008, the US started tweeting air quality data from its embassy in Beijing, putting pressure on the Chinese gov to address dangerously high pollution levels. The program was expanded and is credited with saving many lives and billions of $. Now, it's been killed. www.wired.com/story/air-mo...

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Chiang Kai-shek "I wonder if I am the government?" Cartoon in Japanese controlled Manchuria Daily News 1934.1.1 p3

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Before the World Happiness Report there was Justice Agha Haider from Lahore to tell us Scandinavians were the most happy, “because they are not too ambitious” adds Chaudhry Zafrullah Khan. - from Manchuria Daily News 1935.1.18

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Foggy evening in Oslo last night

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“Should children be allowed to go on cabin trips alone?” Norwegian magazine Hus og Have (House and Garden) Jan 1936. Yes, it mostly says, but they are usually talking about 13-17 year olds depending on who is talking. #norway

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Enjoyed a keynote conference talk by @finnarne.me on the «Hyttekrisa» (cabin crisis) in Norway at the National Museum in Oslo. He included environmental history crash course, including the classic William Cronon trouble with wilderness smackdown. www.nasjonalmuseet.no/utstillinger...

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I got to know the main presenter, Mr. Kawashima, for some project and I was so impressed by how much work he does to generate pedagogy and share knowledge with Japanese high school history teachers. He's amazing. Join us to learn what is going on in classrooms from him.

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Read what women in Singapore said about their activities in black markets during Japanese occupation. ↓↓　Thank you, Alison Fong Min, for introducing this fascinating material!! japaneseempire.info/black-market...

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Norwegian as Scots-Danish. 😊(from Baedekers 1912 travel guide for Norway, Sweden and Denmark)

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I like this Whitehead quote.

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One of Juvenal's satires on historians (but not sure I understand that last quotation).

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Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...

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New blog post: Three interfaces to explore the 50,000 1929 HathiTrust resources that entered the public domain last month thisismattmiller.com/post/hathi-p...

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The American half of me sincerely apologizes for the completely unhinged conduct of our president. Gaining insufficient attention for his attempts to dismantle the state and bully all of our allies, he wants to know if mass ethnic cleansing might get you to take him seriously.

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I enjoyed this documentary on the history of the Linotype:

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Lots of posts out there about censorship on DeepSeek models such as this article but sometimes they are not talking about the R1 reasoning model. As of today leetspeak jailbreak works for default model but not the “reasoning model” R1. 1/4 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Beijing newspaper article about the Four pests campaign from 1958 everydaylifeinmaoistchina.org/2025/01/26/b...

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One of the things to know about edtech is that many, many people involved in it have no experience teaching, and particularly not at the grade level the intervention is designed to target. They’re tech guys who think tech is Very Hard and teaching is a skill-free avocation for ladies.

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Some reflections on changing the approach on my syllabus for Data Analysis for History. lincolnmullen.com/blog/this-se...

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I enjoyed this post on Juvenal and our use of his phrase "bread and circuses"

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I’ll be giving a talk at the national museum in Oslo 25 February. Title listed in English but will likely give the talk in Norwegian: «The Rise of ‘the Cabin People’: Hyttefolket 1920–1960» www.nasjonalmuseet.no/utstillinger...

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Is it just me or has most of the famous modern Norwegian authors and intellectuals before WWII lived in Italy at some point, sometimes for several years, and been heavily impacted by their experience? Has anyone written about Italy’s impact on Norwegians (på norsk or any language)?

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Quite the storm here in Edinburgh today.

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One of my favorite Chinese bathroom signs. From Jinan airport in Shandong, 2008, if I remember correctly.

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An old "Caution: monkeys" sign I passed while biking through a forest in Mie prefecture (apparently near Kameyama) back in 2004. The Portuguese translation took me by surprise at the time, but must be due to the large number of Japanese Brazilians in the broader region.

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My favorite little old Russian-English phrase book (1991 [1957?]) 😜

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I didn't know this second definition of 雌雄. Everytime I come across another example of this sort of thing, I think of He Zhen's (何震/何殷震) discussion of gender and the Chinese language in her 1907 "On the Revenge of Women" (《女子復仇論》)

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Stumbled across this old 2010 airport photo. It was early days for adding Chinese to the signs here. 😜

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Spanish phrase of the day. Last night I asked my partner, "Which way do I turn this knob on the heater to turn it up?" She answered, "La derecha oprime, y la izquierda libera." (The right oppresses, and the left liberates.)

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Some 1947 Christmas Eve content from 조선일보 and 동아일보 in US occupied southern Korea. Still time to get those gifts or tune in for the special Christmas Eve broadcast!

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I note that history got the least detail in the 1906 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching section proposing entry requirements to university (in the US) after defining the university as such archive.org/details/annu...

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Today I got fully caught up on set of around 3,500 hanzi flashcards for first time since around 2009 when I shifted to Anki (apps.ankiweb.net). Only one of around dozen decks there for daily study various langs (including a set built out from Rouzer's Practical Primer of Literary Chinese). 1/3

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apropos of nothing... thinking of immigrant scholars working in their second, third, or more language. we crossed worlds and traveled oceans to be here, and we're gonna stay.

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I'm reading Kon Wajirō's (今和次郎) study of (colonial) Korean homes (朝鮮半島の民家調査, 1924). One of my fond memories of wandering about in the Korean countryside is seeing the pavements and parking lots all over covered in red chilis (고추) for drying so this passage brought me back. 1/2

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