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- Libraries, Books, & Authors
- 17 Creative Children’s Libraries
- HarperCollins Tries Direct Sales That's one way publishers can deal with Amazon, I suppose.
- My Favorite Animal, the Book Scorpion My new favorite, too.
- IFLA Continues to Engage at the UN Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals "IFLA’s overarching goal during the OWG meetings is to emphasise [sic] the importance of access to information for development."
- Ebooks for all Building digital libraries in Ghana with Worldreader
- Lev Grossman's 'The Magicians' Coming to Syfy
- Sadly, fitting in a subsection here today for banned/challenged books:
- New Manga Crushed by Tokyo Ordinance
- Singapore: NLB: Withdrawn books will be destroyed Related: Libraries should promote learning, not police values
- Lost Girls Rated 18+ by New Zealand Government Censors
- John Green’s Looking for Alaska Under Attack in Wisconsin
- Nationwide Advocates Rally in Defense of Cameron Post
- Related: Dear School Boards of America: Have a Backbone. Also, Read Books.
- U.S. Social Justice Concerns
- Man Sues Feds After They Target Him for Photographing Rainbow Art Because only terrorists take pictures? It seems that, in the end, the biggest problem for most of these FBI targets is Being Muslim.
- This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps Related: ‘What I want my daughters to know about poverty’
- Turns Out, Republicans Love Obamacare
- San Francisco landlord uses loophole to evict 98-year-old who paid rent on time for 50 years
- Fanny Pack Mixup Unravels Massive Medicare Fraud Scheme
- The U.S. was given heads up about newspaper data destruction '"Good news, at least on this front," the current NSA deputy director, Richard Ledgett, said at the end of a short, censored email to then-NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander and others. The subject of that July 19, 2013, email was: "Guardian data being destroyed."'
- Net & Tech
- Patent Troll That Accused FindTheBest Of 'Hate Crime' For Fighting Back Now Has To Pay FTB's Legal Fees
- The Canadian Government is Playing Hide and Seek with the TPP
- The Kids' Guide to Google Search
- Social And Emotional Benefits Of Video Games: Metacognition and Relationships
- Elon Musk Pledges $1 Million For Tesla Museum At Wardenclyffe How awesome is that?!
- Science
- DNA Scissors Can Perform Surgery On Your Genes
- Pandas' Bamboo-Only Diet Should Kill Them
- Antioxidants Can Make Cancers Worse
- HIV Detected In "Cured" Mississippi Baby
- Other
- First look: Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman in 'Doctor Who'
- First Look at Sir Ian McKellen as ‘Mr. Holmes’
- Graffiti artists take to the streets of Brazil to combat violence against women
- Photograph of rare bird on Uist sparks plastic bags plea
- 'Captain Pizza' Saves The Day, But Doesn't Save Himself A Slice Talk about a random act of kindness!
- Thailand Trafficking Downgrade Likely to be Maintained, Says Phuketwan Editor
- Also Thailand: Detained Academic Describes Military Interrogation
- How Politics and Lies Triggered an Unintended War in Gaza What a mess...
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