{"id":185028,"date":"2026-05-06T04:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185028\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:49:15","slug":"there-is-an-enigma-machine-tucked-away-in-oakland-why-boaz-investigates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185028\/","title":{"rendered":"There is an enigma machine tucked away in Oakland. Why? Boaz investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location: The Posner Center for Special Collections at Carnegie Mellon University<\/p>\n<p>Featured guests:\u00a0Sam Lemley, director of the Posner Center for Special Collections, and Katie Blauvelt, special collections coordinator<\/p>\n<p>3 things that surprised me:<\/p>\n<p>1. Walking around CMU, I used to have the feeling that all the buildings were off limits for nonstudents, but there are actually so many spaces that are open to the public. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.cmu.edu\/visit\/posner-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Posner Center for Special Collections<\/a> is one of those spots. Sam guided me through their most recent exhibition,\u00a0which highlights just a few of their 8,000 rare books and unique objects. They plan to change the exhibition annually.<\/p>\n<p>2. AI art might seem like a modern development, but Katie pointed out a painting created in the 1980s that was a collaboration between artist\/programmer Harold Cohen and AARON, a piece of software he developed. Cohen\u2019s prompts informed the black lines that AARON drew, and then Cohen added the vibrant color. This painting, along with others from Cohen, had been tucked away in the collections.<\/p>\n<p>3. Sam brought me to one of the rarest pieces in the collection: a copy of the United States Bill of Rights. As far as Sam knows, this is one of only five copies in existence. It sits on a shelf alongside a first edition of Charles Darwin\u2019s \u201cOrigin of the Species\u201d and a 16th century text by Copernicus.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that didn\u2019t make the final cut:\u00a0Sam also showed me a letter written by Charles Darwin to a British papermaker. At the time, Darwin was spending a lot of time plant collecting plants with his daughter, and he was requesting more paper to dry the plants on.<\/p>\n<p>Want more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/category\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yinzer Backstage Pass<\/a>?\u00a0Check out our visit to the Pittsburgh International Airport when we got a <a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/the-secret-life-of-luggage-at-pittsburgh-international-airport\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">behind the scenes tour of their baggage system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/the-secret-life-of-luggage-at-pittsburgh-international-airport\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"The secret life of luggage at Pittsburgh International Airport\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PIT-Baggage-A-scaled.jpg\"  data-\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We walked into a cavernous room full of tons of conveyor belts and scanners. With all this machinery, you\u2019d expect the space to be deafening.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tApril 20, 2026April 20, 2026\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/neighborhoods\/north-side\/see-the-pittsburgh-filming-locations-of-the-pitt-at-allegheny-general-hospital\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"See the Pittsburgh filming locations of \u2018The Pitt\u2019 at Allegheny General Hospital\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AGH-A-scaled.jpg\"  data-\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though The Pitt mostly films on the Warner Bros. Lot in Burbank, California, the cast and crew spend one week each season in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tApril 13, 2026April 13, 2026\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nextpittsburgh.com\/yinzer-backstage-pass\/whats-in-the-rafters-at-ppg-paints-arena\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"What\u2019s in the rafters at PPG Paints Arena?\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PPG-Arena-B-scaled.jpg\"  data-\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking down from the rafters at PPG Paints Arena is overwhelming. What takes place eight stories above the ice? Boaz finds out. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMarch 16, 2026March 16, 2026\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location: The Posner Center for Special Collections at Carnegie Mellon University Featured guests:\u00a0Sam Lemley, director of the Posner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7933,73,75,74,82620,45956],"class_list":["post-185028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-posner-center","tag-yinzer-backstage-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}