Podcast appearances and mentions of matthew battles

• It's been quite a painful season in Central Texas, as the Super Centex All-Injury Team includes Cash Pullin, Carlos Talton and Donovan Jones of the Midway Panthers; London Smith and JD Bell of the University Trojans; Whitney's Jontae Johnson, China Spring's Matthew Battles, West's Coy Klish and Axtell's Levi Leathers. Of the guys on the shelf, is there one who's most indispensible and if one of these guys were to return, would he immediately impact his team's playoff chances? • Some pretty interesting district showdowns this week in La Vega-Connally, Fairfield-Palestine Westwood and University-Brenham — all of those game with clear underdogs, but those underdogs definitely have a puncher's chance. How close do you expect these game to be, and which underdog has the best shot? • Many times this season, Gatesville head coach Aaron Hunter has called star running back Rayshon Smith "the most underrated player in Central Texas." So let's appreciate Rayshon Smith for a few minutes, as he currently leads the area in rushing. • One prediction nobody saw coming is China Spring and Lorena being 3-13 coming into Week 10, both fighting for their playoff lives. So who wins this desperation matchup? ----- Music: https://purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before our upcoming book club, Caroline Weaver was kind enough to join us for an invigorating discussion about contemporary book clubs, and updates us on what's going on in her world. Don't forget to read up on Matthew Battles' Palimpsest before the next episode in mid-May!Show Notes & LinksErasable PatreonCaroline WeaverThe Orchard Street Reading SocietyBobos in ParadisePalimpsestGoogle Form for Author QuestionsOlga Dies DreamingOur GuestCaroline WeaverWebsiteInstagramYour HostsJohnny GamberPencil Revolution@pencilutionAndy WelfleWoodclinched@awelfleTim Wasem@TimWasem

What will the future hold for cities, work and mobility? Will the car continue to dominate the urban landscape or are new ways of doing things possible? And if new ways are possible, what will that mean for the way we live and work? In this episode of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast we talk to Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, Chief Visionary Officer of Piaggio Fast Forward and discuss how new forms of mobility will change the way we live and work. About Jeffrey... Founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Jeffrey Schnapp holds the Pescosolido Chair in Romance Literatures and Comparative Literature, and is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. His most recent books include The Electric Information Age Book([Princeton Architectural Press 2012]); The Library Beyond the Book (Harvard University Press 2014), a publication co-authored with Matthew Battles that explores future scenarios for libraries in the digital age; Digital Humanities (Egea 2015), an essay on cultural heritage management issues recently published in Italian in the Meet the Media Guru series; Forthcoming in late 2016 is an extended essay on mobility and the 130 year history of the Piaggio Group, entitled FuturPiaggio (Rizzoli). He is the editor of the metaLABprojects series with MIT Press. After three years of service as co-founder and CEO at Piaggio Fast Forward, Schnapp assumed the new position of Chief Visionary Officer effective June 2018. Piaggio Fast Forward is a subsidiary of the Milan-based Piaggio Group, known throughout the world for iconic vehicles like the Vespa and iconic brands like Aprilia and Moto Guzzi. Piaggio Fast Forward's first generation of robotic vehicles has received worldwide coverage on television, radio, and the www. Its mobile-carrier gita has also won numerous design and engineering awards, including selection as one of the 2018 Beazley Best Designs of the Year at the Design Museum (London) and a 2020 Red Dot award for “Best of the Best” in innovative new products. gita was launched on the US market in late 2019 and is undergoing further testing at the UK's UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University. For more information visit https://mygita.com/

Matthew Battles is associate director of metaLAB at Harvard, where he studies the impact of digital technology on the humanities. Over a 23 year writing career, he has authored four books on the subjects of the survival and destruction of knowledge, the tale of students, scholars, and staff who give a great library its life, the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia, and most recently on trees' alliance and entanglement with humanity from antiquity to present. https://metalabharvard.github.io/peop... Twitter ► https://twitter.com/matthewbattles ******* Simulation interviews the greatest minds alive to inspire you to build the future ► http://simulationseries.com Design Merch, Get Paid, Spread Thought-Provoking Questions ► https://yoobe.me/simulation ******* Subscribe across platforms ► Youtube ► http://bit.ly/SimYoTu iTunes ► http://bit.ly/SimulationiTunes Instagram ► http://bit.ly/SimulationIG Twitter ► http://bit.ly/SimulationTwitter Spotify ► http://bit.ly/SpotifySim ******* Facebook ► http://bit.ly/SimulationFB Soundcloud ► http://bit.ly/SimulationSC LinkedIn ► http://bit.ly/SimulationLinkedIn Patreon ► http://bit.ly/SimulationPatreon Crypto ► http://bit.ly/SimCrypto PayPal ► https://paypal.me/simulationseries ******* Nuance-driven Telegram chat ► http://bit.ly/SimulationTG Allen's TEDx Talk ► http://bit.ly/AllenTEDx Allen's IG ► http://bit.ly/AllenIG Allen's Twitter ► http://bit.ly/AllenT ******* List of Thought-Provoking Questions ► http://simulationseries.com/the-list Get in Touch ► simulationseries@gmail.com

"We'll be speaking with the authors of an actual, physical, bound, paper book." Guests: Jeffery Schnapp and Matthew Battles of Harvard University's metaLAB. First broadcast November 7 2014. Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=10732

Gifts for book lovers. Martha recommends one for lovers of libraries and another for students of Spanish. Grant suggests some enchanting novels for young readers. When it comes to books, though, you can't always judge them by their original titles. One of Jane Austen's greatest novels was originally called "First Impressions." Only later did she swap out that name for the alliterative--and immortal--"Pride and Prejudice." And: Imagine a favorite colleague is moving away for a fantastic new job. What's a good word to describe that mix of feelings where you're really happy for that person but also a little sad? Plus, word quiz for those who love to study, a new-ish meaning of basic, wolf whistling, canvassing, Cobb salad, and how to pronounce the name Colin.FULL DETAILSOne of the greatest novels in all of American literature was originally titled Catch-18. Then Joseph Heller found out that a novel about World War II called Mila 18 already existed. So he changed his book to Catch-22. And guess which American classic was originally titled, Something That Happened, before its author read a Robert Burns poem about a farmer who destroys the home of a little mouse?Looking for a word that denotes being really excited for someone, but also a little sad? One option is bittersweet, but if you'd like a term that's not quite so overused, yayboo is taking hold online. The Modern Greek word charmolype translates as "bitter joy" or "sweet sadness," although it's often used in a religious context, particularly around the mix of feelings evoked by crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.The word canvassing, as in, going door-to-door passing out political information, has an obscure etymology. It's thought to be related to the use of canvas material either for sifting things out or tossing someone in the air. Either way, it probably has to do with a kind of "shaking out" or vetting to discern the truth.We all know that lusty two-note whistle directed at an attractive passerby. But how did that particular sound come about? If we trace the earliest record of that sound, known as a wolf whistle, we find this 1943 Tex Avery cartoon.Today the title War and Peace is practically synonymous with "incredibly long novel." If Tolstoy had kept the book's original title, however, our synonym for such a hefty epic would be The Year 1805.Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game for those who appreciate the study of things like comparatively thick cuts of beef or people who go to shake your hand only to pull theirs away and smooth down their hair.In today's schools, mean girls might dismiss a classmate who wears Ugg boots, drinks sugary lattes, and listens to Top 40 radio as basic. This adjective for a slightly vapid, mainstream trend-follower first showed up in hip-hop lyrics around 2005.Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice was originally going to be called First Impressions.Since the 1930's, a traditional Cobb salad has included hard-boiled eggs, avocado, bacon, chicken, blue cheese and tomatoes. The recipe is often credited to a restaurateur named Bob Cobb. Pity all the fellows named Colin whose name is often mispronounced to rhyme with the punctuation mark (or the body part). General Colin Powell's rise to public prominence in the 1980's apparently prompted many people to adopt his unusual long-o pronunciation.A peppercorn payment, or peppercorn rent, is a term used by attorneys for small, below-market-value payments for a property.For the book lovers on your gift list, Martha recommends, Library: An Unquiet History, by Matthew Battles. For younger readers, Grant suggests C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, starting with The Magician's Nephew. For adults who loved the Narnia books, he also recommends Lev Grossman's The Magicians.A caller from East Tennessee swears that he's heard ducks imitating the sounds of some nearby geese, and he's probably right. Animals do indeed have the ability to mimic the sounds and behaviors of other species, but that doesn't mean the animals are speaking a similar "language."Before William Golding named his novel The Lord of the Flies, based on a reference to Beelzebub, the book's working title was Strangers From Within.Why do words that begin with sn—sneer, snarl, snot, snide, snake, snooty—all have negative connotations? Phonaesthesia, a phenomenon whereby we associate certain sounds with particular meanings, may hold the answer. Linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker writes about such sound symbolism in his book The Stuff of Thought.The book Martha most recently gave as a gift is Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish by Joseph Keenan. She says it'll help bump your Spanish up to the next level, even if you speak just a tiny bit.This episode is hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2015, Wayword LLC.

On today’s episode of Modern Notion Daily, our guest is Matthew Battles, author of Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word (W. W. Norton & Co., July 2015). Battles explores the trajectory of writing, from the forms it takes (cuneiform, pictographs, letters, characters, emojis) to the way it’s been produced (on clay tablets, on parchment,…

Panel: Towards the Ideal Learning Environment Moderator Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director, Hood Museum of Art Panelists: Aine Donovan, Director of the Ethics Institute and Research Associate Professor, Dartmouth College; Dr. David Helfand, Founder and Tutor, Quest University; Chanon (Kenji) Praepipatmongkol, Dartmouth class of 2013; Matthew Battles, senior researcher, metaLAB, Harvard University Respondent: William Crow, Managing Museum Educator, School and Teacher Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Museum Studies, New York University

The technological advancements of the past twenty years have rendered the future of the library as a physical space, at least, as uncertain as it has ever been. The information that libraries were once built to house in the form of books and manuscripts can now be accessed in the purely digital realm, as evidenced by initiatives like the Digital Public Library of America, which convenes for the second time this Friday in San Francisco. But libraries still have profound cultural significance, indicating that even if they are no longer necessary for storing books they will continue to exist in some altered form. Radio Berkman host David Weinberger postulated in his book Too Big To Know that the book itself is no longer an appropriate knowledge container – it has been supplanted by the sprawling knowledge networks of the internet. The book’s subtitle is “Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room.” Inspired by the work of Harvard Graduate School of Design students in Biblioteca 2: Library Test Kitchen – who spent the semester inventing and building library innovations ranging from nap carrels to curated collections displayed on book trucks to digital welcome mats – we turned the microphone around and had library expert Matthew Battles ask David, “When the smartest person in the room is the room, how do we design the room?” Matthew Battles is the Managing Editor and Curatorial Practice Fellow at the Harvard metaLAB. He wrote Library: an Unquiet History and a biography of Harvard’s Widener Library. David Weinberger is the author of Too Big To Know and a senior researcher at the Berkman Center. He is also the co-director of the Harvard Law School Library Lab.