» Power Tools
10/07/22 17:45 from Invisibilia
Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw ...
» The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project
12/05/23 18:26 from anthro{dendum}
As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In short, there aren’t too many these days. This is due to what w...
» Therapy Ghostbusters
09/23/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
In San Jose, California, a community clinic was stumped as to why their clients were seeing ghosts. This week, a story about grappling with ghosts of our past and one clinic's attempt to heal intergenerational trauma.
» Therapy, with Friends
11/04/21 17:07 from Invisibilia
Would you ever consider going to therapy with a friend?Two best friends who call themselves brothers were drifting apart, so they asked psychotherapist Esther Perel to help — and we listened in. This episode was recorded in collaboration...
» What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: December 2024
12/19/24 10:10 from The Signal
Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’s digital collections? The Signal shares updates on new additions to our digital collections and we love showing off all the hard work of our colleagues from across ...
» A Friendly Ghost Story
09/16/21 19:48 from Invisibilia
It's one of the most common and infuriating friend mysteries out there - a friend disappears into thin air. But where do these ghosts go? And why are we so haunted by them? If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact t...
» 09/17/21 PHD comic: 'The COVID-19 Virus Explained'
09/18/21 14:13 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " The COVID-19 Virus Explained " - originally published 9/17/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
» File Format Research Roundup
12/10/24 13:30 from The Signal
This post is the most recent in a series about file format research for the Sustainability of Digital Formats site at the Library of Congress, including several new format descriptions as well as community collaborations.
» The Great Narrative Escape
05/20/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Imagine a TV show with no plot, no characters, no tension... and yet, it went viral! In this episode, we have a story that questions storytelling as we know it. Plus, co-hosts Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw take a spectacularly unspec...
» Quick hits: Wallet-draining breakfast prices; the 'Walmart effect;' rural short story winner; bird flu stats; shouses
01/07/25 12:35 from The Rural Blog
» Depite U.S. fireseason extremes, wildland firefighters eye deep paycuts as they wait for Congress to act
01/17/25 11:40 from The Rural Blog
» Rural schools funding bill fails in the U.S. House. The loss will 'create needless pain for rural communities.'
01/10/25 11:55 from The Rural Blog
» Less for more: Grocery prices have increased 25% since 2019, according to an NPR analysis
01/17/25 11:55 from The Rural Blog
» With its $12.98 T-shirt, this company shows how retail apparel production can thrive in the U.S.
01/03/25 11:35 from The Rural Blog
» Nun of Us Are Friends
09/23/21 15:16 from Invisibilia
It's a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. We look at two institutions that took away that choice: convents circa the 1960s and a summer program with unusual rules. What do we lose and what do we gain when we g...
» Looking back, looking forward
12/20/23 07:45 from anthro{dendum}
The blog may be shutting down, but I’m not! I started blogging in 2001 and my personal blog, Keywords, is still going strong. Check out this recent post about the movie Killers of the Flower Moon. I’ve also started a newslett...
» The Talk of the Office
04/05/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Reckoning with a reckoning.
» Translation Notes
01/13/25 10:47 from SAPIENS
A translator’s notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a… The post Translation Notes appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Adventures in chatGPT #3: Jack Kerouac Edition
12/04/23 18:17 from anthro{dendum}
When I first heard about chatGPT, the main thing I was concerned about, like many others, was that students would use it instead of writing their own work. I tried to take an open approach with it all to try to head off any potential pro...
» 10/22/21 PHD comic: 'Current Status'
10/25/21 05:09 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " Current Status " - originally published 10/22/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
» Season 7: New Stories. New Hosts.
04/19/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Invisibilia is back! Stories that help you see the world differently, with new hosts Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw.
» Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants
01/07/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
Amsterdam, like other European cities, hosts growing populations of non-native parakeets. An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds… The post Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants appeared first on SAP...
» Many Roads Can Lead to the Same Place: An Interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King
12/31/24 10:54 from The Signal
Today’s blog post is an interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King of the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Gen, could you tell us a b...
» The Chaos Machine: Wrathful Lord
05/06/21 14:40 from Invisibilia
The man behind 209 Times is not who you'd expect. In Part 2, co-host Yowei Shaw discovers the website's surprising origin story, and ends up at the frontlines of a revolt against the mainstream media and a fight over who gets to own the ...
» An FDA proposed rule would force food manufacturers to add a 'nutritional info box' to the front of their packaging
01/17/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog
» “Can We Capture This?”: An Interview on Website Archivability
12/17/24 09:00 from The Signal
Earlier this year, the Library of Congress and our web harvest vendor MirrorWeb presented research on website archivability at the 2024 Web Archiving Conference at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The presentation was part ...
» Farmer income declines and U.S. government disaster payments begin; roughly $9.8 billion will be paid out
01/10/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog
» Natural disaster recovery is harder for rural schools. Early preparation and strategies ensure students keep learning.
01/14/25 13:54 from The Rural Blog
» Goal-setting can be an important part of improving your news organization
01/03/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog
» When residents in a small Indiana town discuss an immigrant welcome center, clashing views take center stage
01/14/25 13:55 from The Rural Blog
» Celebrating Six Years of By the People
01/10/25 10:03 from The Signal
Another incredible year made possible by volunteers Happy New Year to all our Signal blog readers and to all our By the People crowdsourced transcription program volunteers! Every year, the By the People team publishes a “happy birthday...
» Drinking raw milk can cause humans to contract diseases and infections, but the risks may not tell the full story
01/14/25 14:00 from The Rural Blog
» Opinion: Jimmy Carter brought human rights to the forefront and 'made a lasting impact on the U.S. and the world'
01/03/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog
» Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 5}: trying to not eat myself
12/29/23 15:59 from anthro{dendum}
This is not an academic text. Wow. It has been several months since I last posted something here in AD. It’s kinda weird trying to survive a pandemic amid a coup d’état attempt here in Brazil. For that and for my lack of prod...
» Not enough child care spots pushes states to help care centers expand; some emphasis is on rural needs.
01/10/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog
» Eat The Rich
04/22/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Invisibilia explores a social experiment with money, focused around a contentious topic: reparations. What happens when you demand white people give up their wealth?
» White v. White?
04/03/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
A city council candidate says he's black. But his opponent accuses him of being a white man pretending to be black. If race is simply a social construct and not a biological reality, how do we determine someone's race? And who gets to de...
» A little-known pharmaceutical company that made billions selling opioids 'escapes' billions in fines and IRS payments
12/20/24 11:55 from The Rural Blog
» The P-Word
09/09/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
Alex is a comic who feels perfectly comfortable commanding a packed, rowdy audience, but consistently submits to what other people want in everyday life. This week, a look at how uncomfortable feelings about power can backfire on ourselv...
» What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: 2024 Wrap-Up!
01/06/25 10:03 from The Signal
Happy 2025 to all of our Signal subscribers! In this special edition of “What’s New Online at the Library of Congress,” we’re looking back on some of our new digital collections releases in 2024. Do you have a favorite digital collection...
» Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through
01/13/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
In a themed collection, poets trace contours of power to critique colonialism, environmental destruction, and social violence while transforming the… The post Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Two Heartbeats A Minute
04/10/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
The strange story of an unlikely crew of people who band together to take on one of our largest problems using nothing but whale sounds, machine learning, and a willingness to think outside the box. Even stranger, several of the world's ...
» The Goodbye Show
04/27/23 18:40 from Invisibilia
In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.
» Beta Release of Library of Congress Web Archives Playback Services
01/03/25 08:00 from The Signal
This guest post was authored by Abbie Grotke, Head of the Web Archiving Section. As described in our prior blog post, we have been in the process of modernizing and making improvements to the Library of Congress Web Archives to improve f...
» Free virtual discussion covering infrastructure investment opportunities for distressed rural places on Jan. 15
01/10/25 11:35 from The Rural Blog
» Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador
01/14/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic… The post Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Friends with Benefits
10/21/21 14:47 from Invisibilia
A lot of us think that it's a bad idea to get physical with friends. We worry it'll get messy, maybe even ruin the friendship. But if physical intimacy between friends weren't so taboo, what could our friendships look like? In this episo...
» Do You Remember Who Spoke at Your Commencement?
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Does it matter who speaks and what they say?
» Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature
08/22/24 12:21 from Invisibilia
We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their skepticism resul...
» A Little Bit Pregnant
09/16/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?