Links....
I've just spent all day lazing around on the couch reading, with a lapful of kitten. So, yeah, not much to talk about.
Links!
Links!
- Libraries, Books, & Authors
- To Lure Young Readers, Nonfiction Writers Sanitize and Simplify I believe it does a great disservice to our kids to teach them "sanitized" and "safe" versions of history. How can they be ready to face and, hopefully, change the evils in the world if they aren't learning about them?
- Questions to Help Kids Think About Fiction Books
- Four centuries and 2 million pages of Dutch cultural heritage added to WorldCat
- Carnegie Free Library opens 1901 time capsule
- NCAC Members Warn Waukesha Board Against “Red-Flagging” Books
- Kings Canyon Parents Want Black Swan Green Out of Class
- CBLDF Joins Coalition to Fight Ban of The Fault in Our Stars
- Writers join fight to save Liverpool’s libraries
- Homeless Outreach in Volumes: Books by Bike for ‘Outside’ People in Oregon
- Bigger Than Words : A Live Webcast with Usher about how kids can open a world of possible through reading Thursday, November 6, 2014 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT
- What Is Love? Famous Definitions from 400 Years of Literary History
- Net & Tech
- Obama 'unequivocally committed' to net neutrality
- Former NSA Head Says You Can Avoid Government Spying By Using This One Simple Trick
- Jitters over US surveillance could break the Internet, tech leaders warn
- America Must End Its Paranoid War on Hackers
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apologizes for saying 'women don't need to ask for a raise'
- Science
- 32 Myths About The Flu Vaccine You Don't Need To Fear Now go get your flu shots!
- Cure for Type 1 diabetes imminent after Harvard stem-cell breakthrough The headline strikes me as hyped and overly optimistic - I'm hopeful, but I also know that there's still a ways to go before we call it "cured."
- Walton Family Undermining Rooftop Solar, ILSR Report Finds
- Authority Issues
- International
- Malala and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize
- Germany Extends Free College Education To All Students In The U.S. I wonder if this includes grad programs...I might have to learn German, after all.
- A red sun rises over Reykjavík
- Other
- Open carry enthusiast robbed at gunpoint: ‘I like your gun. Give it to me.’
- Growing Up Unvaccinated
- Rare photo shows Robert E. Lee’s slave, Selina Gray — the hero of Arlington House
- 10 Things That Are More Important Than Discipline
- White men make up 31 percent of the population but hold 65 percent of elected offices in the US
- Chicken on Menu at 2014 Food Safety Summit was Contaminated Oops...
- GAO report confirms that strict photo ID laws reduce voter turnout of minorities and young people
- Chomsky: Thinking Like Corporations is Harming American Universities
- Eastman reports accidental chemical discharge into Holston River
