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George Eastman House – preserving film history

From the Democrat & Chronicle, a behind-the-scenes look at how George Eastman House (in Rochester, NY) is doing all it can to preserve film treasures. [...]

Does anyone know shorthand anymore, offhand?

My mother could leave a Christmas shopping list written in shorthand in the middle of the kitchen table, bold as anything, and all I could make out was “Toni — squiggle, squiggle, curly-q, dash dash loop”. [...]

That old book smell

Scientists have created a way to test the degradation level of paper books and documents, based on that “old book smell” we’re all familiar with. [...]

Houston, We Erased the Apollo 11 Tapes

Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Morning Edition, July 16, 2009 · An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to [...]