paulkreitman.bsky.social
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Students were peacefully protesting the forced starvation and aerial bombardment of a civilian population. The university’s president had them suspended and arrested by the NYPD.

This makes me ashamed to work at Columbia.
April 20, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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We are thrilled to announce the three finalists for the 2024 MJHA Book Prize (given to a book published in 2022).

The winner will be announced next week, so stay tuned!
January 18, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Agenda item for your next departmental meeting
November 24, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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High on my eager to read list for 2024 (for many reasons), @tsmullaney.bsky.social’s The Chinese Computer, just saw the cover for it, an excellent one mitpress.mit.edu/978026204751...
The Chinese Computer
The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboa...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 25, 2023 at 2:33 AM
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A tragically prescient cartoon from Nov. 1943—a year before major air raids began in earnest—about a “Fire fighting suicide corps”

[Housewife]: “I’m a member of a fire fighting suicide corps. We are working hard on practicing because without air defense training we can’t respond to an emergency.”
November 21, 2023 at 7:00 PM
I’m on parental leave right now so don’t expect much from me. But here is a picture of a dovecote.
November 21, 2023 at 7:19 PM