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  Whet Your Appetite With Nearly 13,000 Historical Cookbooks in This Sprawling Online Archive

  My Modern Met - Eva Baron

  The Internet Archive is one of the world’s most sprawling digital databases. It boasts everything from radio shows, manuals, and CD-ROM software to social media videos, religious sermons, and hip-hop mixtapes. But aside from all that, the platform also happens to host a massive archive of nearly …

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  Dictionary.com Added 1,235 New Entries to the Dictionary, Its Largest Word Drop Yet

  My Modern Met - Eva Baron

  One of the most established truths about language is that it’s constantly evolving. Every year, our vocabulary sheds and accumulates words; slang explodes onto the scene while other terms take a step back; and grammatical conventions increasingly accommodate colloquial speech and new idioms. There …

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  Playful Children’s Book Serves as Early Tool for Detecting Color Blindness

  My Modern Met - Eva Baron

  It’s estimated that there are about 300 million people with color blindness around the world. Despite the significant population with the condition, it can be difficult—and costly—to diagnose, especially in young children. But Navneet Education, one of India’s largest schoolbook publishers, may …

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  Explore Hundreds of Pre-1800s Occult Texts With This Sprawling Online Database

  My Modern Met - Eva Baron

  After the tremendous success of his 2003 thriller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown turned his attention to his next set of novels in the series. While writing The Lost Symbol and Inferno, the novelist regularly visited the Ritman Research Institute in Amsterdam, where he had access to some of the world’s …

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  Explore Medieval Medical Recipes Featuring Dove Feces, Fox Lungs, and More

  My Modern Met - Eva Baron

  One of the biggest differences between medieval and contemporary life is our current medical knowledge. Today, we boast a plethora of vaccines; we’ve eradicated some of the world’s deadliest diseases; and, above all, our understanding of the human body and its health is far more advanced than it …

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  Over 2,100 Illustrations From Charles Dickens Novels Now Available in Online Archive

  My Modern Met - Ava Linker

  When you think of “Dickensian literature,” foggy alleyways, forlorn orphans, or grotesque villains may come to mind. That’s due in part to the influence of illustrations meant to aid 1800s readers in envisioning the scenes, characters, and emotions. Charles Dickens was deeply committed to these …