On Being has worked with Cambridge University Library to present a narrated tour of Darwin's private notebooks and hand sketches with one of the few scholars who knows it best, David Kohn. You can zoom in tight on high-resolution images, listen to a scholar tell you more about why Darwin was writing the selected passages, and read the transcript of Darwin's cryptic handwriting!
SoundSeen (our multimedia stories)
SoundSeen (our multimedia stories)
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HMML's rare book archive holds a vast collection of medieval manuscripts and sacred texts. Here, watch a guided tour of some its most prized possessions of parchment and press.
Historian Theresa Vann's descriptions of crude repairs and bookworms tunneling through fleshy parchment come to life. And she shows us rare pages from the Knights of Malta's first pressings.
A behind-the-scenes look from Krista's interview. Here, Fr. Columba shows centuries-old manuscripts in Ge'ez and Samaritan Hebrew, Latin and Armenian, and Greek with Arabic translations. It's an intimate perspective of precious objects well worth viewing.
Children are witnesses says Dr. Coles. These selected images lining the pews and walls of St. Paul's Chapel after 9/11 give meaning to his statement.
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The Rural Studio has completed their third generation of the 20K House — budgeting $10,000 in materials and the rest for future profit for a contractor. In a clever twist for a pair of brothers, they've combined the two in the form of a dogtrot. Take a look.
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The iconographic structures of Mason's Bend have become synonymous with Sam Mockbee and the Rural Studio. We've put together a feast of images and voices from the people who live and work there.
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The Rural Studio 20K House is in its fourth generation now. All have been single story and aluminum clad. This group of students are changing that, and face the challenges of creating a two-story loft.
See a slideshow of woodcut images included in Kosofsky's Book of Customs.
A sermon by Bishop Vashti McKenzie.
