Back to School

This is the back-to-school post—for whoever is going back to school.

To start with: book jackets, book covers.  The University of Otago (New Zealand) recently put together an exhibit of book jackets along with a short history of the rise of the book jacket featuring the great pun “dis-covered.”  If you click around you can see a few dozen book jackets from the decades.

iTunes U is a free section of iTunes.  In between new Radiolab episodes I wanted more Robert Krulwich and first discovered three of his talks at the 92nd St. Y in New York.  Speaking of the 92nd St. Y, it’s not a YMCA.  It’s the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association and seems to be way more focused on culture than swimming pools and youth basketball.  There are pages of audio programs put on by the 92Y on iTunes U, all free.

Finally The Ohio State University had a selection of ten recordings of Ohio Bird Songs.

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