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New Orleans Mardi Gras parades have been cancelled because of COVID, so people are decorating their houses as floats instead:
‘Float houses’ are popping up all over New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2021: Now with 250 photos!
How the Mardi Gras float house phenomenon began and how it’s spreading beyond New Orleans
Featured image source: Reuters/Kathleen Flynn
The Seven Tones Project pairs new interpretations of the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn with short movies. The project turns the coronavirus quarantine into an opportunity for creative collaboration.
Publisher Springer has temporarily made hundreds of textbooks available to download for free during the coronavirus pandemic. For archaeologists, there’s Diane Gifford-Gonzalez’s ~600 page zooarchaeology book. A sample of other free books is below, and you can find all the rest at Springer. Thanks to @jriveraprince for pointing this out on Twitter.
An Introduction to Zooarchaeology
An Anthology of London in Literature, 1558-1914
ArcGIS for Environmental and Water Issues
Writing for Publication: Transitions and Tools that Support Scholars’ Success
Social Media Management: Technologies and Strategies for Creating Business Value
Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics
Commemorate your involuntary staycation with these posters from Duke Cannon and maybe protect America from the confederates with a Fort Couch couch fort reenactment this weekend?
Download high quality pdf posters at Duke Cannon site for free, or purchase the prints.
Encourage social distancing and sanitary practices with these posters from Duke Cannon. Free high quality downloads at their site, or purchase the prints.
Also, unsolicited recommendation for their Tactical Scrubber – It’s like a force multiplier for your soap.
