from The New York Times
A Layered Look Reveals Ancient Greek Texts
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An update on the earlier post on the examination and conservation of the historic Archimedes palimpsest. Also see the offical web-site.

from yesterday.sg

A slew of interesting posts in the past weeks which looked back on various familiar places in Singapore:

shots@ bonham hill (view from Fort Canning Hill)
Beauty World
Lorong Chuan
Bishan Two Zero

Enjoy!

from Metropolis Magazine
Virtual Preservation
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A variation on the successful BBC programme "Restoration", whereby the public gets to vote for a historic property to be restored. In the case of San Francisco, the public will vote online for half of the number of listed historic sites to share in the final "prize-money". Does this not sound like passing the burden of decision-making to the "public", regardless of how inadequate or ambiguous that term / group may be?

from ashpanda
Save Palmer Road
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go to "Save Palmer Road" web-site

A worthy local effort to raise awareness and preserve the dwindling historic areas still standing in present-day Singapore. Also see previous post here.

[ Thanks to yesterday.sg and Singapore Heritage List for the alert ]

from Rambling Librarian
So NLB is archiving Singapore websites...
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go to NLB's Web Archive Singapore

Better late than never ... as Singapore joins the wider effort in preserving digital contents.