Monday, September 26, 2011

What we learned from 5 million books

I want you to watch this video and imagine how significant the act of book burning is to our culture.

Through digitization and platforms like the Google Ngram Viewer we can go back in into the historical record and see the frequency of terms and origination of words and phrases. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

Now think of the Jesuits burning Mayan books. It's an intolerable crime which should have heavy sentencing.

What we learned from 5 million books http://mys.tc/xb

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