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Gemini 3 As An Agentic International Think Tank In A Box: Five Reports Deeply Analyzing Iran Based On Yesterday's Iranian TV News Coverage

As a past journalist and columnist, I am on the press mailing lists of most major think tanks in DC…

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Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Yesterday's Iranian vs US Coverage Of The Conflict: IRINN vs CNN vs MS NOW vs Fox News

What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast how Iranian vs American…

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Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast A Day In The Life Of CNN, MS NOW & Fox News's Parallel Narrative Environments

What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast the totality of yesterday's…

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Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Yesterday's CNN, MS NOW & Fox News Coverage Of The DHS Shutdown

What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast yesterday's coverage of the…

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Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Yesterday's CNN, MS NOW & Fox News Coverage Of Iran

What does Gemini 3.1 Pro High Thinking have to say when asked to compare and contrast yesterday's coverage of the…

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Using Gemini 3 To Compare & Contrast Iran's Foreign & Domestic Television Coverage: IRINN + PressTV

How does the coverage of Iran's foreign (English-language PressTV) and domestic (Persian-language IRINN) television channels compare, where does it overlap…

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Gemini As Media Analyst: Using Gemini 3.1 Pro To Deeply Examine The Last 24 Hours Of Iranian State TV For Negotiation Narratives

What has Iranian state television been saying about possible peace negotiations with the United States and how have their domestic…

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Gemini For Museums: Museum-Scale Fully Autonomous Page-Level Rich Cataloging, Contextualization & Description Of A 500-Year-Old Picture Bible

As we begin to digitize an incredibly unique collection of nearly complete copies of the seminal "picture Bibles" of the…

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Interface In The Era Of AI: Turning The Seminal Picture Bibles Into Flipbooks: First Experiments

In our increasingly AI-intermediated world, the conceptions of user interface, algorithm-free browsing and in-order consumption of books and other printed…

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Turning The 2026 DNI Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) Into An Infographic Using Gemini + Nano Banana Pro + 2

What does it look like to turn the DNI's 2026 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) into an infographic using Gemini 3.1…

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A Montage Of Half A Month Of Global Media Trends Using Gemini 3.1 + ImageMagick

Yesterday we showed how to use Gemini 3.1 to create the ImageMagick code to turn a directory of media trend…

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Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Identify & Translate The Table Of Contents Pages Of The 1585 Jode Picture Bible

Earlier today we demonstrated how Gemini 3.1 could perfectly transcribe and translate into English the Latin text in the introductory…

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Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Transcribe & Translate Two 500-Year-Old Latin Poems From The 1585 Jode Picture Bible

Gerard de Jode's 1585 Thesaurus Sacrarum was arguably one of the first true "picture Bibles" and the small number of…

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Using Gemini 3.1 To Turn A Directory Of Infographics Into A Global Montage Of A Day Of Media Trends Around The World

What would it look like to visualize a day of media trends around the world, combining the thematic trend analysis…

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Turning a PDF Into An Identically Themed Email Newsletter Using Gemini 3.1 Pro

Turning a daily analytic PDF report into an equivalent email newsletter that shares the same visual look-and-feel and thematic styling…

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Today's Media Trends: Belarus & "The Weaponization of History" & "Western Cultural 'Degeneracy' as a Policy Driver"

As we continue our public interest experiments in applying deep thematic trend analysis to television news coverage from around the…

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Gemini For Museums: Piecing Together Biblical Image Reworking At Scale From The 1585 Jode To A 1672 Visscher Royal

Visscher's Royal Bible (seen here bound in a 1672 Swart KJV) was a stunning series of around 130 two-page Biblical…

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Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Identify & Describe Woodcuts In The Profusely Illustrated 1657 Van Sichem Bible

One of the most profusely illustrated Bibles ever created, the 1657 Biblia Sacra published in Amsterdam by Pieter Jacobsz Paets…

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The Declaration Of Independence, NARA & The Limits Of "Authoritative" AI Search Grounding From Government Sources

In the course of some recent research using different AI models to compile a list of America 250th celebrations across…

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Legislative Experiments With Gemini: Using Gemini 3.1 To Extract All The Claims From the SOTU & Autonomously Vet Them

After each year's State of the Union (SOTU) address, journalists and researchers pour over the president's statements and attempt to…

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Combining Gemini 3 + Nano Banana Pro To Describe And Style/Artist/Medium Transfer A Visscher Royal Bible Engraving

How might Gemini 3.1 and Nano Banana Pro help us better understand and experiment with this two-page engraving from a…

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Gemini As Indiana Jones: Digitizing Historical Engravings For AI Analysis Using A Samsung Phone Vs DSLR

Continuing our series on leveraging Gemini 3's advanced visual reasoning to decipher 500-year-old roundels on a Nuremberg Chronicle leaf to…

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An Experiment In Deeply Analyzing The Trends & Themes Of One Week Of Global Television News

Last week we explored how journalists and scholars could see the news each day not as a roaring river of…

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An Experiment In Deeply Analyzing The Trends & Themes Of Two Days Of Global Television News

What if journalists and scholars could see the news each day not as a roaring river of realtime unrelated narratives,…