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• Libraries, Books, & Authors
• Rise of smart phones and social media makes people crave real books, British Library report finds 
• An Unlikely Incubator for Female Social Entrepreneurs in Rural Asia: Libraries "For women like Chuna, libraries like READ Centers can play the role of incubators – not just for businesses, but also for long-term social change."
• Why Are We Obsessed With the Great American Novel? 
• Archiving: Maintaining Relevance for the Future "What the Library of Congress can teach us about preserving digital media"
• Requiring kindergartners to read — as Common Core does — may harm some 
• Charlie Hebdo: 'Blessed battle of Paris' was our work, says al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen
• Voltaire ‘tolerance’ book flies off shelves after Paris attacks 
• 20 Literary Facts To Impress Your Friends With Dangling participle aside (it ought to read "20 Literary Facts With Which To Impress Your Friends"), this list is really neat! 
• Net & Tech
• Zombie Cookie: The Tracking Cookie That You Can’t Kill I like zombies. I like cookies. I despise zombie cookies.
• President Obama seeks to lift curbs on small-town broadband access 
• Science
• Scientists and Engineers Warn Of The Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence 
• Were Beethoven's Masterpieces Influenced by a Cardiac Arrhythmia? 
• Education
• I Owe It All to Community College: Tom Hanks on His Two Years at Chabot College I, myself, spent some time at Virginia Highlands Community College, worked at Delgado Community College, and am a firm believer that community colleges are wonderful places offering opportunities otherwise denied to many. 
• Cutting Louisiana higher education by $300 million, putting it into perspective "Louisiana, over the past seven years, has already cut more money, on a per-student basis, from higher education than almost any other state in the country. Since 2008, the state has slashed higher education funding by $673 million. But a $300 million reduction to higher education would be the largest one-year cut in recent memory." Talk about an expensive mistake - the money Louisiana saves in the short-term is going to have outrageous costs in the lives of its citizens in the long run. 
• Parents demand a better solution "Imagine students sitting on the floor to eat breakfast brought in from another location.  Imagine 400 students sharing one working bathroom. This was the situation facing fifth and sixth graders at Collins Middle School Tuesday."
• Other
• Happy birthday, Battlestar Galactica! (The reboot series.) I love that show. I think I've watched it five times through, now. 'Battlestar Galactica': A close look at the near-perfect pilot episode, 10 years later 
• Dreamy Black and White Watercolors by Artist Elicia Edijanto 
• Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close 
• 224,000 Louisiana families struggle for even 'modest but dignified' lifestyle, Loyola study finds