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...Sources: ABC; Wall Street Journal; Guardian; A.P.; Bloomberg; Interview Numbers Sources: CNN Money; USA Today; American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (2); A.P.; Encyclopedia Astronautica...
...that, on a website that serves as a central information source for our era, one of history’s greatest villains is reduced to a spectral figure of fear while one of its greatest tragedies becomes a dispassionate statement of fact. The encyclopedia drains the entries of their terror and, indeed, of their very life, reducing them to little more than a hazy nightmare in our morning-after memory. But that doesn’t mean their terror is irrelevant: as Roberto Bolaño reminds us in “Nazi Literature in the Americas...
...reveal a secret, it is no longer a secret… They’re not just like pieces of candy labeled secrecy and you can pick them off the shelf and taste them.” Galison agrees. “It’s not an encyclopedia of secrets,” he says. “Its grounded in our presence, yet reaches back fifty years or so to try to understand why we are where...
...Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)—the brainchild of Harvard professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson—launched its first 30,000 entries yesterday, making a small dent in the 1.8 million species the online database intends to chronicle...
...Comparative biology, crossing the digital divide, has begun a still largely unheralded revolution: the exploration and analysis of biodiversity at a vastly accelerated pace,” Wilson wrote at the time. “Its principal achievement will be a single-portal electronic encyclopedia of life...