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- LSU Library offers students savings with free E-textbooks initiative
- Long Beach Library Reverses Course on Police Shooting Artwork
- Censorship Gone Awry in Cabbagetown Coffee Shop
- Guantanamo's Detainee Library Won't Carry a Guantanamo Detainee’s Acclaimed New Book "The book, portions of which are heavily redacted — pages 302 to 307 are entirely blacked out — recounts in vivid and harrowing detail the Mauritanian's rendition, his torture by interrogators, and the grave conditions of his confinement at the detention facility where he has been held, without charge, since August 2002. The book has been translated into 20 languages.... Turning Slahi's handwritten diary into a published book was no easy feat. His own words were considered classified, and the government argued that if what he wrote was publicly released it would threaten national security. In 2006, his lawyers filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Defense to liberate the diary. They won that legal battle six years later." Related: From Inside Prison, a Terrorism Suspect Shares His Diary
- Happy birthday, Lewis Carroll! One of my favorite authors from the time I was little; I still have "Jabberwocky" memorized.
- Jan 27, 1888: National Geographic Society founded "The Society used its revenues from the magazine to sponsor expeditions and research projects that furthered humanity's understanding of natural phenomena. In this role, the National Geographic Society has been instrumental in making possible some of the great achievements in exploration and science. To date, it has given out more than 1,400 grants, funding that helped Robert Peary journey to the North Pole, Richard Byrd fly over the South Pole, Jacques Cousteau delve into the sea and Jane Goodall observe wild chimpanzees, among many other projects. Today, the National Geographic Society is one of the world's largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions.... The Society also sees itself as a guardian of the planet's natural resources, and in this capacity, focuses on ways to broaden its reach and educate its readers about the unique relationship that humans have with the earth."
- Jan 27, 1302: Dante is exiled from Florence "Dante's political activities, including the banishing of several rivals, led to his own banishment, and he wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, as a virtual wanderer, seeking protection for his family in town after town."
- Jan 27, 2010: "The Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger dies
- ProQuest, UM, Oxford team to provide 25,000 early books as open access text
- Bibliotherapy: Can you read yourself happy?
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- Blizzard of Nor'Easters No Surprise, Thanks to Climate Change "TV meteorologists may be calling it Winter Storm Juno, but climate scientists have a different name for the 'once-in-a-century' blizzard that's expected to blanket the U.S. East Coast from New Jersey to Maine starting on Monday. They call it completely predictable."
- If Earth falls, will interstellar space travel be our salvation? "So if Earth ever become uninhabitable, we won’t need to traverse the stars to find a new home. Orbital habitats will require a significant expansion of space industry, but this will happen soon enough, especially if we are forced to leave the planet for a little while so it can recover from our mistreatment. Of course, if we discover warp drive, the picture will be entirely different."
- Dementia 'linked' to common over-the-counter drugs Don't panic - more research is needed.
- Graphene Could Double Electricity Generated From Solar "The amount of sunlight that hits the Earth every 40 minutes is enough to meet global energy demands for an entire year. The trick, of course, is harnessing it and converting it into useful electricity."
- Secrets Of The Orchid Mantis Revealed – It Doesn’t Mimic An Orchid After All
- Another Australian animal slips away to extinction
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- Intimate Portraits Pay Tribute To Auschwitz Survivors
- The anti-fracking activist barred from 312.5 sq miles of Pennsylvania "Vera Scroggins, an outspoken opponent of fracking, is legally barred from the new county hospital. Also off-limits, unless Scroggins wants to risk fines and arrest, are the Chinese restaurant where she takes her grandchildren, the supermarkets and drug stores where she shops, the animal shelter where she adopted her Yorkshire terrier, bowling alley, recycling centre, golf club, and lake shore." Related: Children given lifelong ban on talking about fracking "The sweeping gag order was imposed under a $750,000 settlement between the Hallowich family and Range Resources Corp, a leading oil and gas driller. It provoked outrage on Monday among environmental campaigners and free speech advocates."
- Yellowstone Oil Spill Missing from Keystone XL Coverage On CNN, Fox
- Obamacare cost to be 20% less than forecast, budget office says
- America doesn't just have one deficit, and Bernie Sanders wants to address seven of them
- 17-year-old Kristiana Coignard shot and killed by three police officers after brandishing knife
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