Tonight, through December 6, the Empire State Building will light up blue for Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary! Keep an eye out. The schedule can be found here >> Plenty of folks here in NY will be celebrating, so raise a glass, everyone!
Read MoreThe only thing I miss now that I’m biking to work: reading on the train. In other words, I’ve lost close to an hour of reading time per day! The New York Times interviewed a slew of people about their train reading habits.
Read MoreIt’s not over yet! The New York Times today reported on a new challenge to Google’s book scanning project.
Read MoreTwo preliminary essays to On the Origin of Species. Family reminiscences of Jane Austen gathered by her nephew. The correspondence between Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Charles Dickens, as a journalist, reporting from America. The Cambridge Library Collection is an exciting new collaboration between the library of the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publisher.
Read MoreIt’s Friday. In case that’s not enough to cheer you up, here’s an otherwise unrelated cat trying to walk with mittens on!
Read MorePublisher’s Weekly this week features an article about 425 years of evolution at Cambridge University Press.
Read MoreNow, I’ve been called a Grammar Nazi many times over, but I do believe there is a clear difference between a person truly deserving of that unfortunate title and others, like myself, who believe that some rules should just be common knowledge for native speakers of the English language.
Read MoreIn the DNA of my family the science gene went astray. My father was a civil engineer who designed suburban roadways, but all I inherited from him was an excellent sense of direction. My cousin teaches high school science but I’ve a sneaking suspicion it’s because he likes to blow things up. I had somehow managed to avoid the nitty-gritty of most things scientific until I came to work for Cambridge.
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