History geeks - here’s a map every (popular) historical event from 2000 B.C. to 1931 - that’s more than 4,000 years of Amorites, Famines, Plagues, Aegeans, Wars, Huns, Discoveries, Romans and religions.
The chart was created by John B. Sparks and printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (Click the map to make it bigger)
Check out Slate for the full story.
Stephenie Meyer spoke to Variety about Twilight and her new production ventures - including her Shannon Hale adaptation Austenland.
On Twilight Meyer said: I get further away every day. I am so over it. For me, it’s not a happy place to be. [On returning to Twilight] What I would probably do is three paragraphs on my blog saying which of the characters died. I’m interested in spending time in other worlds, like Middle-Earth.
Of course, you’ve seen the trailer to Austenland, right??
NPR reported that libraries providing video games, as well as gaming space within the library, increase the circulation of literature and create havens for younger patrons.
The report follows a study published in Library Journal that reported 15 percent of libraries in the U.S. currently lend games to cardholders to take home. But other research shows that gaming in the library is far more prevalent — and teenagers game the most.
Go listen to the full report - and check out the infographic below for some great stats on how gaming affects health and culture:
Hold onto your heads - the How I Live Now movie adaptation trailer is go!!
(If you haven’t read Meg Rossoff’s book, get to it, we will wait… go on.)
If you were to analyse YouTube stats… Batman is the most popular hero, by far. (Collectively, the top 10 superheroes account for more than 10 billion views and 234,000 hours of video.)
With more views, uploads and keyword searches, Batman is the most popular of all superheroes on YouTube, with more than 3 billion views of 71,000 hours of video.
Don’t just take my word for it… check out the research to back it up. Youtube-trends has the full story.
NASA are making their eBooks available, free. Everything you wanted to know about space… you can know read about online. Or, well, any where!
They’re not perfect - many of the books were digitized 8/9 years ago when formatting didn’t exist but it acts as a functioning library for anyone who cares to look.
What these works also show is how central the space program made and found itself during the 20th century. NASA could convene PIllsbury and the chefs on nuclear submarines to talk about food. Computing and solar energy were both pushed along by NASA’s interest. The Space Race was a proxy skirmish in the Cold War. And, of course, all sorts of ideas from the era leaked into the way NASA thought about things: freedom and America and gender and aesthetics and the future. - The Atlantic