This Cornell Note-Taking Thing

Last week I poin­ted read­ers to the excel­lent art­icle by Dustin Wax com­par­ing note-taking meth­od­o­lo­gies and weigh­ing the pros and cons of a couple tech­niques. I was not per­son­ally aware of the Cor­nell method. I am how­ever a big fan of Microsoft One­Note for organ­iz­a­tion not just of notes, but of research mater­i­als of all …

Graham and Pauly on the Complexity of Global Relations

The 2007–2008 Wilson series of lec­tures in Cana­dian His­tory kicked off at McMas­ter Uni­ver­sity today. John Weaver, the act­ing Wilson Chair in Cana­dian His­tory, has attrac­ted an excit­ing list of speak­ers for the com­ing year. Lou Pauly spoke on ’Glob­al­iz­a­tion, Polit­ical Author­ity and the Pre­ven­tion of Sys­temic Fin­an­cial Crises.’ He fol­lowed Angela Gra­ham who, less …

Fedunkiw on Diaries as a Historical Source

I atten­ded a lively and effer­ves­cent talk by Mari­anne P. Fed­unkiw at the His­tory of health and Medi­cine Unit. Dr. Fed­unkiw presen­ted her work with the diary/scrapbook of Dr. Dorothea Maude, a rather atyp­ical Eng­lish med­ical doc­tor dur­ing the early twen­ti­eth cen­tury. Dr. Maude was act­ive in the Balkan Wars of 1912–14 and then during …

The Future from the Past

It’s always amus­ing and often telling to com­pare where we are now to where we thought we’d be. Whether through sci-fi nov­els, advert­ise­ments for the house of the future, or in this case prints from an exhib­i­tion at the Bib­lio­thèque nationale de France (bnf), facets of the future­think can provide a par­tic­u­larly pris­matic view of …