The seasonal change is the topic for "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 1-7 November 2007. To view this latest photo essay, please visit Hilton Pond.

Aeronautics Competitions for High School and College Students and 21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition

2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson. Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson at a reading in Sonoma, CA where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.

The future of the music business lays in a simple formula: 1 Artist + 1 Mgr = 1 Enterprise. ~ John Hartmann

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Use freeware called "Eulalyzer" to give a quick analysis of a EULA before you finish the installation.

What is PhilaPlace? An online resource chronicling the history, culture, and architecture of two of Philadelphia’s oldest immigrant and African American neighborhoods: South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties/Kensington. PhilaPlace MP3 file posted at WHYY's 6th SQ.

Book Review: Basile's Tale of Tales, also called the Pentamerone, is a collection of fifty stories--chiefly complex tales of magic, popularly known as fairy tales--published in Naples in 1634-1636.

Book Review

The federal government is inviting comments (at http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/documents/20071026.htm) on policies that lead to the intrusion of institutional review boards (IRBs) into oral history research. This provides a rare opportunity for members of our profession to register their objections. I urge every historian who conducts oral history, or is responsible for students who use oral history methods, to respond to this request and express their concerns about the inappropriate and often arbitrary way this policy has been applied to history research in many colleges and universities. You have until December 26, 2007 (send comments to the mailing and email addresses listed at the end of this post).