If you take a look at this website during legislative hours in Britain, you will see a bustling set of eight small screens with activity in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament, the House of Commons, and so on. This is the BBC's "Democracy Live" website and it features gavel-to-gavel coverage of these proceedings. Visitors can use the "Featured business" link to watch some of the...

This article from the BBC website provides some predictions for growth areas in technology for 2005. The author reports on the January 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which took place in Las Vegas and "featured the pick of 2005's products." The article highlights hybrid devices such as this camera with wi-fi, and other digital devices. Industry leaders report on trends in consumer desires...

Many have asked the question: "How do we understand the world around us?" Truly, it is a question that has animated discussion from Beijing to Bogota over the millennia, and it's one that motivates Melvyn Bragg, host of the BBC program "In Our Time". Drawing on guests from around the world, Bragg takes on science, culture, religion, philosophy, and history. Visitors can click on the "Explore...

A reader favorite that was also popular with the Scout staff, Beautiful News Daily lives up to its name in more ways than one. Its aesthetically pleasing visuals make the site stand out among other data and news projects, and its focus on a daily dose of positivity offers a welcome break from gloomy news cycles. Readers may also enjoy following the project on Instagram or Twitter...

Industrial films are commonly discarded after they are used for their intended purpose, so finding originals is rare indeed. The Digital Library of Georgia worked with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize and provide access to these two most fascinating short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s and 1960s. The first film is "Producing America's...

First created in 1992, this guide is intended to help cultural institutions prepare for emergencies and disasters that may strike their regions. This latest version of the report, prepared by FEMA and the National Endowment for the Arts, provides summary descriptions and contact information for 15 federal grant and loan programs. The report also includes an additional number of sources of federal...

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, life for women in Britain was much different in many regards than in the present day. Women could not join the professions, and married women had no rights to property. By the time of Queen Victoria, women's lives had become even more transformed, and this change produced new feminine roles and also produced a clutch of great poets,...

This remarkable oral history project was undertaken by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies from 1993 to 1995. The project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and its primary purpose was to record and preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South from the 1890s to the 1950s. It is the largest single...

Bell System Memorial is a non-commercial website created by David Massey, who openly admits to his love of telephones and interest in the Bell System. The website "was created to help keep the memories of the Bell System alive and to pay tribute to those that made it the greatest telecommunications system on earth." The author provides some technical and corporate historical information on Bell...

If you were starting to think that the 21st century has exclusive rights to violent imagery, this exhibition from the Art Institute of Chicago provides a correction. Dating back to the 1500s, the show includes both inspirational and terrifying visions of war, violence, and patriotism. One of the earliest works, by Master with the Mousetrap, c. 1512, The Two Armies at the Battle of Ravenna, depicts...