Tag: Iowa

DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

How to make calves’ head soup, and other culinary treats from the past
By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk

Culture

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Libraries has made the task expo­nen­tial­ly eas­i­er with the launch of DIY His­to­ry, a crowd­sourc­ing ini­tia­tive that allows vol­un­teers to tran­scribe the Sza­th­mary Culi­nary Archives, cen­turies’ wort…

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Republican civil war

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management

Republican right weeps over Obama’s victory – then begins internal civil war
Paul Harris in Pella, guardian.co.uk

The clash between diehard conservatives and modernisers will dictate the fate of a party which increasingly seems to appeal only to angry, older white Americans

The town of Pella, Iowa, looks an almost too perfect vision of smalltown America.…

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