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1. Friday procrastination: Snow leopard edition

By Alice Northover


It’s Friday once more and I’m holed up in my snow-proof bunker anticipating Nemo — both the storm and the movie.

Readers browsing through the damaged library of Holland House in West London, wrecked by a bomb on 22 October 1940.

The University of North Carolina’s Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library is publishing one piece of Civil War-era correspondence a day, 150 years to the day after it was written.

Academic reference inflation has set in.

The Millions has their first original ebook.

Music at New York Fashion Week.

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Tracking people across security cameras today and forensic science of the Victorian era.

Bookish has finally launched and reaction is mixed.

Why aren’t academics tweeting? Not for the reasons you think.

Sir James may be number 1 in our estimation at the OED, but Google ranks him second to "Councilman #1" on Being Human. http://t.co/9bipfnCP
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Katherine C. Martin


Schopenhauer on books and reading.

The thriving academic blogosphere.

Why isn’t there cocaine in Coke anymore?

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Timbuktu’s priceless manuscripts saved.

Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 over Bletchley Park mystery.

Clocks!

Teaching tips from Tim Gunn.

A Russian family cut off from the world for 40 years.

Sally Tomlinson’s life as a woman professor.

Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.

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2. Best Internet: You Can Always Be More Positive!


It will take just 37 seconds to read this andchange your thinking.. 

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the samehospital room. 

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for anhour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. 

His bed was next to the room's only window. 

The other man had to spend all his time flat onhis back. 

The men talked for hours on end. 

They spoke of their wives and families, theirhomes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they hadbeen on vacation.. 

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by thewindow could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate allthe things he could see outside the window. 

The man in the other bed began to live for thoseone hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all theactivity and color of the world outside.
The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake 

Ducks and swans played on the water while childrensailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers ofevery color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. 

As the man by the window described all this inexquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyesand imagine this picturesque scene. 

One warm afternoon, the man by the windowdescribed a parade passing by. 

Although the other man could not hear the band -he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed itwith descriptive words. 

Days, weeks and months passed. 

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring waterfor their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, whohad died peacefully in his sleep. 

She was saddened and called the hospitalattendants to take the body away. 

As soon as it seemed appropriate, th

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