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over the last semester I worked with an editor to cut 100 pages from it... it is still pretty long, but now in a peer-reviewable form as far as the press is concerned, phew.

I am about to either arouse everyone's envy or say something completely uninteresting.

Officially speaking, the lectures for my current course concluded last Wednesday, but as an extra special treat, our lecturer took us to the Christ Church College library archive to look at a few late Medieval manuscripts and incunables. So we got to not just have a look at but also actually handle a Nuremberg Chronicle, some old copies of Froissart's Chroniques and a family psalter, but most fun of all was Walter de Milemete's treatise on kingship for Edward III. Now, our lecturer wanted to draw our attention to the heraldry, but for rather obvious reasons my own interest was drawn elsewhere, in particular to this bit of the illumination, which is the first known illustration of a firearm in the world. And I got to see the original thing in person. I genuinely nearly squeed with delight.

So, in one of the libraries in my university, they have just finished repairing a quite rare book I found when I was still around my 3rd year. It was a copy of a modernized folk tale titled Si Malakas at si Maganda, essentially a modified folk tale that depicted former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and wife Imelda Marcos as mythological figures named Malakas (Strong in Tagalog) and Maganda (Beautiful in Tagalog), respectively.

The book's pages were actually in great condition when I found it but the spine was already cracked. My uni's library would put it in room-use storage on July, I've been told.

"Hey mum, I've been talking with my lecturers, I'm gonna do honours and then a PhD."

"Wow, you're gonna be a student forever."

"I'm gonna be a doctor, a professor, and teach students".

"You're gonna end up like your cousin - has a Masters in Forensics, but works in scaffolding".

Thanks Mum.

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Been checking a book pitch of someone in academia - for some reason he finds value in my opinion. He's a bit torn between doing something biographical and making a direct point about his work. I've put forwards my critique, though I always wonder if I'm doing that in the right way. Any good methods for helping someone redirect their focus? It isn't my project so I can only do so much, but I think he has something good if he strays more towards one end of his two ideas: Methodology and sociology.

when an arm or a leg "falls asleep" the sensation is often described to feel like "TV Static" what did people describe it as before the advent of the television?

Hello everyone. Two things.

First, as noted last week, we're very eager to hear feedback on the Automod post we have been testing the past two weeks, with two points being of particular interest.

A) Who has been regularly using the Remind Me Bot feature?

B) How is the omnipresent '1 comment' impacting things? When we A/B tested it the first week, I know there were come complaints about 1 vs 0, but now that we have changed it to deploy to all, how has that changed things?

Please leave feedback either here or in the META thread!

Secondly, as mentioned a little while back /u/almost_useless reached out to us to offer trying to tackle the problem, and they wrote up a script that displays the real comment count! Right now, it is more a proof of concept than a fully-functioning tool, but we want to hear from users giving it a try and hear whether they are finding it useful, and if it is something worth developing further.

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Currently, as it is just a script, it requires Grease Monkey or Tamper Monkey (either works for Firefox, the latter only for Chrome) to run. If it proves useful and there are future versions, hopefully it will have an easier implementation, but for now, I'd suggest having some familiarity with how to use those extensions if you are interested in giving it a whirl.

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Why are bass players the butt of musician jokes over the last decade or two? I'm almost 50 and I don't recall them being the butt of jokes growing up.

Was there a movie that caused this to become the norm?

Thanks.

What are the best books on Russian history, specifically from ~1900 til the death of Stalin?