The claim: The Simpsons episode predicted Harris Inauguration Day outfit
Shortly after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as president and vice president, fans of The Simpsons took to social media to claim that the show, once again, had predicted a moment before it transpired in reality.
The series has previously been credited for Super Bowl predictions, a World Cup final, Donald Trump s presidency and Disney owning 21st Century Fox. According to online posts, the show can add to the list predicting the outfit the vice president wore at her swearing-in . Purple suit? Pearl earrings and necklace?! The Simpsons did it again!!!!! reads a Jan. 21 Facebook post with hundreds of shares. Predicting the 2020 election results? Included in the post are side-by-side images of Lisa Simpson and Harris, both wearing a purple outfit and and a pearl necklace.
Digital humanities
But despite data science’s exciting possibilities, plenty of other academics object to it
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T ALL STARTED with a preposition. In 1941 Father Roberto Busa, a Roman Catholic priest, started noting down as many uses of the word “in” as he could find in the Latin work of Thomas Aquinas, a medieval theologian and saint. Eight years and 10,000 handwritten cards later he completed his linguistic analysis of Aquinas’s “interiority” his introspective faith at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. By then he had a suspicion that his work could be done far more efficiently. He started hunting for “some type of machinery” to speed up his new project, recording the context of all 10m words written by Aquinas.
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