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A screenshot of MIT’s EDUCAUSE Whois database record from Tuesday, January 22. The name of the administrative contact for the domain was changed from MIT Network Operations to “I got owned,” and the name servers were ...

INFOGRAPHIC BY JOANNA KAO

INFOGRAPHIC BY JOANNA KAO

A screenshot of mit.edu from Tuesday, January 22, after hackers re-directed MIT’s home page in the name of Aaron Swartz.

The winning integral at Tuesday’s Integration Bee, evaluated by Justin T. Brereton ’13 in two minutes. Hint: consider inverse functions.

Co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler arrive on the red carpet.

Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wiki Meetup, photographed in 2009.

Adele accepts a Golden Globe Award for best original song in a motion picture for “Skyfall.” Francesca Eastwood, Jason Statham, and Jennifer Lopez watch from the side.

La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images), by René Magritte, is another work Bird discusses in “word as image,” which has evolved from ancient hieroglyphics to surrealist humor. The text below the pipe reads, “...

Bird examines Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, as an example of allegory (#34).