Should Historians "Mind" What's Been Said?

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According to Google’s new n-gram tool, when researching history, words count.

Literally.

By analyzing over 500 billion words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, the n-gram tool allows users to track the usage of words from 1500AD onwards.

The implications of this tool in terms of historical and cultural research are just beginning to come to light.

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Interesting - I hope there will be some sort of accurate filtering against white noise, otherwise our era will be remembered for Beiber and Gaga, is that really representative of this generation?

Twitter to enable searches for tweets older than a week - CNET

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See on Scoop.it - DISCOVERING SOCIAL MEDIA

Search Engine Land
Twitter to enable searches for tweets older than a week
CNET
Twitter to enable searches for tweets older than a week. Until now, Twitter search has been limited to tweets less than a week or so old.

See on news.cnet.com

More visibility from twitter through search

Indian "curry" dates back to 4,500 years ago

Reblogged from The k2p blog:

Curries have come a long way from the proto-curry of the Indus Valley civilization and I am sure our tastes have also evolved. And chillies probably came much later and only in the 16th century.

But I can attest to the fact that curry withdrawal syndrome is a real thing and hits hard if I go more than 3 or 4 days without a fix.

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History of curry - summarized

How to use social media to land your next job

How to use social media to land your next job

Large companies want to save time in assessing potential employees, an easy way to do that is to view your profile(s) on social media.

This guide from Mashable will assist you to maximize your chances of being viewed in the most positive manner.

Things to consider

1. Ethics

2. Grammar

3. Bias you display in your posts

4. Politics, religion, racism, swearing, trolling

5. Attitude

Shakespeare's legacy: the Robben Island Bible

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Matthew Hahn, playwright

I first heard about a copy of the complete works of William Shakespeare known as the ‘Robben Island Bible’ when a good friend was reading Anthony Sampson’s wonderful biography on Nelson Mandela in 2002. I was fascinated by the story and found online the subsequent article that Sampson wrote ‘O, what men dare do’ in the Observer from 2001…

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Books can have a profound effect on people, but it is rare to hear one acting in a viral way in such restricted communities such as prisons.

Peering into the Iron Age through the Portable Antiquities Scheme

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David Prudames, British Museum

This helmet is Iron Age (over 2,000 years old), and was found in Kent, in southern England, by a metal-detectorist in October 2012. It had been upturned and used to hold a human cremation - the first accompanied by a helmet to have been found in Britain. In fact only a handful of Iron Age helmets are known from Britain at all.

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Looking back on our past gives us clues to our future.