We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened ...

Modern language evolution typically takes place gradually. This involves thinking about words fusing despite being so far apart, accents developing despite generations passing, and the language ...

GDL is a free/libre/open source incremental compiler compatible with IDL (Interactive Data Language) and to some extent with PV-WAVE. Together with its library routines it serves as a tool for data ...

Of all the greatest poets that have ever written, which is the least known to American readers? I would join many others who point to Tu Fu (a.k.a. Du Fu). He wrote 16 centuries ago during the Tang ...

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet’s story begins with a little girl. In the early 1800s, Gallaudet arrived back home in Hartford, Connecticut, to visit his family after completing his education in two seeming ...

It is not enough to treat AI ethics as a postscript to a technical course nor to tell students: “Don’t be evil.” It is only by developing a deeper understanding of how humans live together, how they ...

In July, 1971, the young poet Bernadette Mayer took thirty-six diaristic photos a day and noted down a companionable number of words, then assembled it all into a show, “Memory,” in which the images ...

This standalone utility, written in C++, converts TrueType fonts to Type 0 Composite fonts that can be accessible from a postscript program. Without this conversion no postscript program can access a ...

There are a number of ways that you can create PDFs on a Linux system. You can use an application like LibreOffice or OpenOffice, or you can take advantage of any of a number of commands that can ...

Sometimes all you remember of a teacher is a voice—“a way of happening, a mouth.” I never met Harold Bloom, but like many of his readers, I thought I knew his voice very well. Bloom, who died on ...

He was on break from his job at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore, where he shelved donated items for $12 an hour. He had spent his morning putting away bedroom mirrors, a box of children’s books and a ...