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Now that we've got that out of the way -
Links!
- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- One Book 4 Colorado: Free Books for Early Literacy Related: One Book 4 Colorado 2014: Creating a Culture of Literacy Wow! (Click through the image to read it easier.) We should make this a national project, I think.
- Our research reveals record numbers of children enjoy reading every day
- Ransom Riggs reveals cover for 'Library of Souls' and talks 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiars' movie -- exclusive
- ‘Daughters of the Samurai’ Sheds Light on a Strange Chapter in U.S.-Japanese History This book sounds fascinating! Aaaand - I've got it on hold. Hooray!
- 22 Thrilling, Imaginative, and Twisted Genre Books By Women
- Iranians Embrace Ebooks to Combat Censorship
- Dashiell Hammett collection goes to the University of South Carolina
- A New Flannery O'Connor Forever Stamp Is Coming, And You've Never Wanted A Stamp So Badly Before, Have You? I, uh...I do need new stamps, after all...
- Don't Write Off Paper Just Yet
- Net & Tech
- Criminals use IRS website to steal data on 104,000 people
- For the Love of Bug Bounty "Chris Roberts, suddenly the nation’s must notorious computer security researcher, has had an exciting couple of months, ping-ponging between industry martyr and villain....Roberts...is a self-described 'ethical hacker'—i.e., a hacker who sniffs out security holes not to exploit them nefariously, but to recommend they be fixed."
- Chrome Extension Changes All Instances of "Millennials" to "Snake People," Makes Internet No Less Intelligible Along the Way Lol...
- Health & Science
- DEA approves first drug trial of ecstasy to treat anxiety and depression
- Herpes Virus Could Treat Skin Cancer
- Even Nicotine-Free E-Cig Vapor Damages Lung Cells
- Dive Into ‘Infinity’ With Dizzying Views of A Colossal Cave
- Galapagos Eruption Threatens Rare Iguanas
- Every world in a grain of sand: John Nash’s astonishing geometry
- Education
- How School Dress Codes Shame Girls and Perpetuate Rape Culture
- The Great Charter School Rip-Off: Finally, the Truth Catches Up to Education 'Reform' Phonies
- Board of Governors eliminates 46 degree programs across UNC system
- Scottish Government: creationism banned from science class
- Authority Issues
- Kentucky DARE Officer Caught Selling Drugs to High Profile Bourbon Thieves Resigns
- CPD cops posed for photo standing over black man dressed in antlers
- International
- No let-up in massive India heatwave "Heatwave conditions continue to sweep India where more than 1,100 people have died in the past week, officials say."
- Other (Serious Stuff)
- Despite An Economy On The Rise, American Paychecks Remain Stuck
- President Obama signs Oklahoma disaster declaration
- Jeb Bush Re-Writes the History of the Iraq War
- 10 questions with Bernie Sanders Related: Bernie Sanders' Deodorant Argument Is One of the Most Substantive of the Campaign So Far "If the company that determined there was big money to be made by innovatively telling teen boys that using a certain brand of deodorant would cause attractive women to have sex with them decided not to go through with creating Axe because taxes were too high, Bernie is saying he is OK with that. You might have less brands to choose from on the deodorant aisle, but on the plus side kids will get to eat." Yeah, that makes sense to me.
- Ira Glass Lamentably Believes NPR Should Embrace Capitalism and Advertising Gross...
- Holy Crop: How federal dollars are financing the water crisis in the West
- Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty
- Texas tops rain record in May
- NOAA Issues Its Forecast for the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season "There's a 70% chance that the hurricane season in the Atlantic will spawn six to 11 named storms between June 1 through Nov. 30, and of those named storms, three to six could become hurricanes, including up to two major hurricanes of categories 3 to 5 during the season, forecasters said." Excuse me while I check my supplies...
- Other (Not-So-Serious Stuff)
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