Links...
Links!
- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- Happy birthday, LeVar Burton! Of course, he's best known right now for successfully reviving Reading Rainbow, a program I think is awesome. Related: LeVar Burton seeks to couple storytelling with education Burton's first children's books, The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, looks like a great story; I'll have to get my hands on a copy!
- Children’s books are never just for children
- 6 Reasons You Need To Read 'The Princess Bride,' Because There's So Much More To The Story
- Meet Daniel Reeve, calligrapher for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
- Net & Tech
- The new View-Master looks really interesting.
- Health & Science
- NASA Wants to Send a Submarine to Titan's Seas
- Drinking Coffee Could Help Protect Your DNA From Damage
- Education
- Growing number of parents "opt out" of new Common Core tests that they say damage their kids
- Streamwood student 'embarrassed' by substitute teacher's taunt
- International
- Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after 21 Egyptians beheaded
- 6.7 earthquake hits off Japanese coast
- Other
- Family of Mexican national files claim, accuse police of murder 'execution style'
- As Houston Islamic Center Burns, Firefighter Posts, "Let it burn...block the fire hydrant."
- VA Gov. McAuliffe to declare State of Emergency at 3 p.m. Related: KY governor declares state of emergency after winter storm
- Homeless People Each Share One Thing About Themselves That Will Surprise You "For a simple but profound project, Rethink Homelessness invited several of Orlando’s homeless residents to tell the rest of us one fact from their lives that, if we walked past them, we would never expect. As you can imagine, the results are poignantly humanizing…"
- John Oliver takes on Big Tobacco
- Michele Ferrero, owner of Nutella empire, dies at 89 When I was little, my grandmother would occasionally give me a special treat - exactly one Mon Cheri chocolate. They were heavenly. I didn't know this man existed, but he was a big part of my childhood. Related: 14 things you didn't know about Michele Ferrero and his Nutella empire
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