The Getty Research Library at the Getty Institute has over 600 digitized images of Mexico from its special collections by Mexican, American, and European photographers in a multitude of photographic formats. The earliest is from 1857, and these photographic images document the history of the nation from different perspectives. To get acquainted with a timeline of Mexico starting in 1810 and going...

Lost cities discovered after Gadhafi http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/07/libyas-lost-cities-discovered-after-gadhafi--researchers Lost castles of forgotten civilization found in Libyan desert http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/08/lost-castles-of-forgotten-civilisation-found-in-libyan-desert-115875-23545245/ Castles in the...

Recycling Masterpiece: British Racing Team Creates F3 Car That Runs on Chocolate http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=147889 The Chocolate-Powered Car http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/may2009/bw2009057_934211.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_lifestyle World First Racing http://www.worldfirstracing.co.uk/ Fuel...

How to swap a paper clip for a house http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,26909-2264564,00.html one red paperclip http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ Forty Media: Interview: Kyle MacDonald http://www.fortymedia.com/blog/opinion/25/interview-kyle-macdonald 5 Questions for Kyle MacDonald http://www.onedegree.ca/2006/03/20/5-questions-for-kyle-macdonald-one-red-paperclip Swaptree...

Many universities have reflected on how their institutions have changed during periods of war, and University of North Carolina archivist, Janis Holder, and her colleagues recently created this thoughtful digital collection that looks into that very subject. They began by asking how war affected the university as it carried out its primary educational mission and how students and faculty were...

Bedbug Disclosure Law, Signed by Gov. Paterson, Forces Landlords to Reveal Apartment Infestations http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/30/news-bedbug-law-forces-landlords-to-reveal-past-infestations/ New York, Darwin, and Cimex Lectularious http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/08/in_1913_the_department_of.html Bedbugs: MayoClinic.com http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bedbugs/DS00663 Bed...

Over the past few decades, a number of well-known writers such as Robert Coles, Alex Kotlowitz, and Allan Bloom have weighed in on the lives of young people, often generating meaningful dialogues (and controversy) along the way. This recent 45-page report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press may spark such conversations as well, for it offers a portrait of the so-called...

The world of the visual arts is, at times, a chaotic one. There are a myriad of different institutions attempting to garner the attention of experts in the field, the general public, and various philanthropic organizations. It can be a complex landscape, but this latest report from the RAND organization goes a long way to document the many challenges that the visual arts community faces. While...

The National Center for Education Statistics generates important research documents and papers on a regular basis, and this latest report will be of great interest to educators, policy-makers, and the general public. In this 292-page report, released in March 2005, findings are presented from the base year of the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, which is a new longitudinal study of high...

Long-Lost 1913 Lincoln Film to Premiere at the Putnam http://keeneweb.org/newsline/2010/04/06/long-lost-1913-lincoln-film-to-premiere-at-the-putnam/ National Film Preservation Foundation http://www.filmpreservation.org/ The Bioscope http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive: Abraham Lincoln http://www.archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln Silent...