Appalachian History Series – The Day the River Entered the Mine: The 1959 Knox Disaster in Luzerne County On a cold January morning in 1959, people in the Wyoming Valley watched the ice heavy Susquehanna roll past the coal breakers and company towns that lined its banks. By mid day the river was no longer just beside the mines. It was inside them.
Repurposed Appalachia Series – Tracks Across the Sky: The Kinzua Bridge, the 2003 Tornado, and Pennsylvania’s Great Viaduct Ruin If you follow U.S. Route 6 across the northern tier of Pennsylvania, the road climbs into a high plateau of hardwood ridges, gas wells, and old company towns that locals call the PA Wilds. Near the little borough of Mount Jewett, a side road turns off toward a narrow valley where steel once walked across the sky.
Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Lanterns in the Raccoon Creek Valley: Moonville Tunnel and the Ghost Town in the Woods On a map of Appalachian Ohio, Vinton County looks like one more patch of green among many. In person, it feels different. The roads slip down into narrow hollows and climb back out again, and the trees close in until even a bright afternoon can look like evening.
Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Tailypo: A Southern Monster Tale with Deep Roots in Appalachian Communities On a cold night in the Southern mountains, a single sound can carry a long way. Wind slips through the trees. A loose board on a cabin wall creaks. Somewhere out in the dark, a dog barks once and then goes quiet. Inside, children lean closer to the fire while an older voice lowers to a whisper and begins a story.
Article in today’s Guardian From interviews that were published last week by the Financial Times and The Guardian, I get the sense that the new President of the Royal Society, Professor Sir Paul Nurse, is almost as sick of the Musk affair as I am. He may well be regretting consenting to these interviews because they have re-ignited the debate about the Royal Society’s handling of concerns raised within and without about actions by Musk that are
This week OpenAI and Anthropic launched their health/bio updates. While both companies are leaning into consumer-facing health concierges, Claude now has better tooling for life science researchers.
In unserer neuen Blogreihe „Retrodigitalisierung – vom Papier zum Pixel“ zeigen wir, wie die TIB durch die Digitalisierung ihrer analogen Bestände wissenschaftliche Schätze sichert und weltweit zugänglich macht. Dabei geben wir auch Einblicke in die technischen und rechtlichen Prozesse moderner Retrodigitalisierung.
Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Boojum and Hootin Annie in the Balsam Mountains: Gemstones, Moonshine Jugs, and Haywood County Folklore In the high country of western North Carolina, between the tourist glow of Waynesville and the deep coves that run toward the Smokies, there is a stretch of ridgeline where stories and promotion have tangled together for more than a century.
Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – The Hopkinsville Goblins: Little Green Men on a Kentucky Farm On a hot Sunday night in August 1955, a caravan of cars pulled up outside the Hopkinsville, Kentucky police station. Inside were eleven people from a small farm community called Kelly, just north of town. Some were crying. One man’s pulse was racing.
Appalachian Folklore & Myths Series – Wizard Clip and the Priest’s Field: Poltergeist, Frontier Faith, and a Haunted Farm in the Shenandoah Valley In the lower Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia there is a quiet patch of fields and houses that once answered to an unsettling nickname.
