Google is partnering with The HALO Trust in order to use its Google Earth Pro technology to detect and remove land mines in areas like Cambodia and Angola.
Good Guy Google
the looking glass of this language
This National Geographic piece on the desire to document and preserve the world's many dying languages is great.
Janie Crawford and Tea Cake on Air
To commemorate the book's 75th anniversary, WNYC and WQXR Radio will present a live radio play of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. New Yorkers will be able to catch the broadcast on February 29th and March 1st, and then the rest of the nation can hear it in September.
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“Her prints certainly have muscle, and a lot of it.”
Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons, a collection of one-panel comic prints made by Flannery O'Connor during her time in college, is due out later this week. Meanwhile, Barry Moser exhibits a few of the highlights.
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Who Are They?
Recommended Reading: A brief history of the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” from Shakespeare to Girls and The Argonauts.
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Tweeting with Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan has a new story, "Black Box," which is being published in ten installments over the New Yorker Fiction Twitter feed. Beginning last night at 8pm EST, and the story continues tonight at the same time.
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Catton Craze
Eleanor Catton just became the youngest person ever to win a Man Booker, but we were fans of her long before. Our own Emily St. John Mandel included Catton's debut novel The Rehearsal on her list of disorienting reads. Paul Murray also recommended the book on his 2012 Year in Reading.