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Michael Witmore

@MichaelWitmore

Director Emeritus, Folger Shakespeare Library

 Washington, DC
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Joined December 2011
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Is reality itself.. impenetrable? - Afterthoughts on SCI-Arc's Slavoj Ži... youtube.com/watch?v=szkTzuNU…
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Fragmentarium and the burnt Anglo-Saxon fragments - Medieval manuscripts blog shar.es/1Vb1Dk
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Data science treats us as the intersection of groups, trends and tendencies. So what's left of the individual? Our memories?
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To DH'ers asking, What to measure? Good idea from baseball stats 'godfather'.... (NYTimes story on exit velocities)
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Wayne Shorter@Wayne_Shorter15 May 2017
Clouds float in the same pattern only once.
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Great peace by Farjad Manjoo. Spelling Errors: In the Twitter Age, Whoo Cares? via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2017/08/27/techn…
So Trump Makes Spelling Errors. In the Twitter Age, Whoo Doesn’t? (Published 2017)

So Trump Makes Spelling Errors. In the Twitter Age, Whoo Doesn’t? (Published 2017)

In tweets, the president seems to spell poorly, and he’s been flogged for it. But there’s an argument to be made that the spelling police should relax a bit.

nytimes.com
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Eclipses in Shakespeare's plays shakespeareandbeyond.folger.… via @folgerlibrary
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A statement from Folger Director @MichaelWitmore on the recent events in #Charlottesville: ow.ly/um6F30es9Ll
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Hamlet (and more) on the waterfront in DC! Let's bring the barge! google.com/amp/s/www.washing…
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Here's a #shelfie of our copies of Shakespeare's First Folio for #BookLoversDay! The First Folio was the first col… ift.tt/2uH6gQo
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Ai Weiwei wallpaper at Hirshhorn. Tweet.
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How to Make a Librarian Panic - The Collation collation.folger.edu/2017/08…
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Goats, bookworms, a monk’s kiss: Biologists reveal the hidden history of ancient gospels | Science | AAAS sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/…
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Boston Globe calls Cobb's American Moor a spellbinding journey. The promptbook for the play is in Folger collection. bostonglobe.com/arts/2017/07…
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First tried with Shakespeare's sonnets, now GIFs... finance.yahoo.com/news/scien…
Want to Transcribe Rare Magical Manuscripts on Your Lunch Break?: @atlasobscura atlasobscura.com/articles/ne…
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The Folger acquired the prompt-book to this show, because it's history in the making. See it in Boston! bostontheatrescene.com/seaso…
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Shakespeare References in Rap Lyrics: An Animated History genius.com/a/shakespeare-ref… genius.com/a/shakespeare-ref…

Shakespeare References in Rap Lyrics: An Animated History

Presented by TNT.

genius.com
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Replying to @MichaelWitmore @YouTube
Reminds me of the myth that the silk of silkworms carries an audio signal. What is the audio encoding format for silk?
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