Ian C Boyd
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Ian C Boyd
@IanCBoyd
PhD Candidate in French at the University of Cambridge. Working on the imagination of the subterranean in the eighteenth century.



The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.


The kids are cooked


more seriously, this would basically kill of european wine imports and would be a huge boon to producers primarily in california, but also south africa, new zealand, australia and argentina.


BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.








