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The wretched news that the old Daily Dispatch building at 35 Caxton Street had been gutted was distressing for me but not wholly unexpected. After all, it had served as a wool storage depot before it became the home of the newspaper, the printing presses and the staff for more than 100 years. Its ancient timber must have been thoroughly oil-soaked from the amount of pelts stored there in the heyday of the wool trade in East London.

Print Against War shows how the global printing industry is standing with Ukraine. Turning discarded glass containers back into sand to help combat coastal erosion. Devastating report finds that plastic recycling simply is not working. Graphene-based anti-corrosion paint for automotive applications. A “staple-less stapler.” A revised 3D-printed cap for the iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bottle. Now you can be chased through a forest by a drone swarm without fearing they’ll crash. A new app is S...

The first edition of the Tri-County Sun, a weekly newspaper, was published May 12, 1922, by G.K. Ness.

Adobe’s founders and engineers tell a tale of software, stumbles, and serendipity

As a sports editor at The Daily Collegian, Ted Rubin sat on the bench during Penn State football games to talk to players closely. He asked then-head coach Bob Higgins

As the old adage “history repeats itself” goes, we find that exactly 100 years ago to...

I started working part-time for The Sentinel in the early 1950s, minimum wage was 50 cents an hour. I worked a few hours after school, six days a week. That

Thanks to developments in science and technology, you can't add jobs like slubber doffers and night soil men to your resume these days.

Larry Lessig has an excellent article over at The Nation, that puts the events of January 18th into perspective. He talks about the...

The Days building has tracked the papers fortunes, growing along with it over 115 years and reflecting its mission.