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Here’s How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s

  • By Greg Miller |

Hundreds of long-forgotten texts that went viral in the 19th century are being discovered by a new collaboration of humanities scholars and computer scientists. The Infectious Texts project is mining digitized newspapers to identify these texts and study how they spread and the country grew and technology changed the flow of information.

Google’s Dead Sea Scrolls project: why putting parchment & papyrus in the cloud matters to civilization

  • By Jon Stokes |

In bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls into the cloud via an interface so user-friendly that even a humanities professor can navigate it, Google has once again played a part in something wonderful for the world. And I don’t mean “wonderful” in the modern web sense—like the way that Facebook has put me back in touch […]
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