Distinguished historian and now head of Harvard Libraries Robert Darnton has written a thorough and thoughtful review of the new Google Book settlement that occured on November 9, 2009, in the New York Review of Books.

As I was walking around campus today I saw that Shell Oil was holding a recruiting event on the Engineering Quad, the "Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge". (See images below.) Evidently this was designed as a game or entertainment, involving, in their words, a "fast-paced, pit-stop-style event w