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New Tool Tracks Culture Through the Centuries via Google Books

4:09pm GMT, Sunday, 19 December 2010

Can culture be decoded like a genome? A team from Harvard University has teamed up with Google to crack the spines of 5,195,769 digitized books that span five centuries of the printed word with the hopes of giving the humanities a more quantitative research tool. [More]



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