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Free for All: NYPL Enhances Public Domain Collections For Sharing and Reuse Today we are proud to announce that out-of-copyright materials in NYPL Digital Collections are now available as high-resolution downloads. No permission required, no hoops to jump through: just go forth and reuse! The release of more than 180,000 digitized items represents both a simplification and an enhancement of digital access to a trove of unique and rare materials: a removal of administration fees and processes from public domain content, and also improvements to interfaces — popular and technical — to the digital assets themselves. Online users of the NYPL Digital Collections website will find more prominent download links and filters highlighting restriction-free content; while more technically inclined users will also benefit from updates to the Digital Collections API enabling bulk use and analysis, as well as data exports and utilities posted to NYPL's GitHub account.

World Map, Online Maps, Satellite Maps - National Geographic Skip to this page's content National Geographic Society P.O. Box 98199 Washington, DC 20090-8199 USA Search National Geographic Search NationalGeographic.com Search Video Review: Bit by Bit, by Matthew J. Salganik Since the advent of so-called big data, much has been written about the possibilities and challenges of making the most of the multiple digital traces created online. Even though research in this area is still emerging, enough has now been done across a wide range of disciplines to form the basis for this hugely ambitious book. Matthew Salganik has made it his mission to sketch out an emerging landscape by looking in turn at “observing behaviour”, “asking questions”, “running experiments”, “creating mass collaborations” and “ethics”. There is also a short final chapter on the future of social research. Overall, the book relies on a repeated narrative device, imagining how a social scientist and a data scientist might approach the same research opportunity. Salganik suggests that where data scientists are glass-half-full people and see opportunities, social scientists are quicker to highlight problems (the glass-half-empty camp).

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul, South Korea Since opening its door in 1969, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea has lived through the history of Korean art. In the process, MMCA established itself as a representative institution of Korean modern art. The museum’s four branches, including Gwacheon (opened in 1986), Deoksugung (opened in 1998), Seoul (opened in 2013), and Cheongju (expected to open in 2017), each in its own way, will continue to carry out MMCA’s commitment to the art and culture of Korea by enriching the first-hand cultural experience of the viewing public.

venal There are no items for this category hypocritical adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise" false adj. designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom" reprobate, perverted, perverse, depraved Eugène de Rastignac Eugène de Rastignac [ø.ʒɛn də ʁas.ti.ɲak] is a fictional character from La Comédie humaine, a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in Le Père Goriot (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world depicted by Balzac can be followed through Rastignac's various appearances in other books of the series. Rastignac is initially portrayed as an ambitious young man of noble, albeit poor, extraction who is at times both envious of and naive about high society. Although he is ready to do anything to achieve his goals, he spurns the advice of Vautrin (the series' dark criminal mastermind) and instead uses his own wits and charm (especially through relationships with women, such as his cousin Madame de Beauséant) to arrive at his ends. In French today, to refer to someone as a "Rastignac" is to call him or her an ambitious arriviste or social climber. 1819 – Le Père Goriot (1835) – Rastignac is a 21-year-old student in Paris.

MASP - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil The Museu de Arte de São Paulo is a private, nonprofit museum founded by Brazilian businessman Assis Chateaubriand, in 1947, as Brazil’s first modern museum. Chateaubriand invited Italian art dealer and critic Pietro Maria Bardi to serve as MASP’s director, a position he held for nearly forty-five years. Acquired through donations from the local society, MASP’s first artworks were selected by Bardi and became the most important collection of European art in the Southern Hemisphere.

Opium Lamps Detail of the base of an opium lamp decorated with a cloisonne depiction of a still life. Close-up of the base of an opium lamp showing enamel adornment. Detail of the vent of an opium lamp made from openworked paktong. The floral motif includes a grasshopper. A brass opium lamp with openwork in floral and bird motifs.