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Little Free Libraries on the wrong side of the law "Crime, homelessness and crumbling infrastructure are still a problem in almost every part of America, but two cities have recently cracked down on one of the country's biggest problems: small community libraries where residents can share books."
Harper Lee's new book already No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller list "Lee's new book isn't coming out until July 14, but it zoomed to the top of the Amazon book sales chart Wednesday because it's available for pre-order."
Confessions of an Accidental Archivist "I began my professional life in public broadcasting as a journalist and creator of electronic media. It is toward the realization of 'persistent access' to the vast store of our multimedia memory that my career has increasingly become focused."
How Litclub mentoring is giving girls in Ghana a learning space

If It Happened There: Traditional Beliefs and Distrust of Authority Fueling Disease Outbreak "The latest installment of a continuing series in which American events are described using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries." Funny and sad, all at the same time.
First atomic bomb test may mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Related: The Anthropocene Has Been Shaped By The Media And Our Digital Lives
California’s Majestic Trees Are Declining — A Harbinger Of Future Forests
You Can Sell Your Poop For $13k Per Year And Help Science "Though everybody may do it, not everyone is an ideal candidate to get paid to do it. First and foremost, OpenBiome needs donors to be near their lab in Medford, Massachusetts to join the registry to donate. Candidates who meet the requirements for age, BMI, and health pre-screening questions are then invited to get blood and stool testing. Donations are then made at least four times per week for 60 days, when each donor is re-evaluated. Once the next round of blood and stool tests come back clear, the previous samples are then converted into capsules and sent to patients across the country."

An entire city is going to be wiped off the map in Egypt "The city of Rafah, which has been a part of Egypt since the pharaonic period, is to be removed from the map; its residents relocated to the imaginatively named, yet-to-be-built city of New Rafah."

Freshman GOP Senator: I'm Okay With Not Forcing Restaurant Workers to Wash Up Ew.
New GOP representative to state judges: what's your 'personal relationship' with a 'Supreme Being'? Um...
Colorado May Have To Refund As Much As $30 Million In Pot Taxes "The state constitution limits how much tax money the state can take in before it has to give some back. That means Coloradans may each get their own cut of the $50 million in recreational pot taxes collected in the first year of legal weed. It's a situation so bizarre that it's gotten Republicans and Democrats, for once, to agree on a tax issue."
MLK's Mother Was Assassinated, Too: The Forgotten Women Of Black History Month "When a friend told me about Alberta Williams King, my first reaction was 'who?' This question was followed by a wave of shame. It was the same feeling I had a few years ago when I first heard about Fannie Lou Hamer. Then later came Ida B. Wells and other leaders who seemed to appear in the discussion of American history to my confused, uninformed silence. I started to suspect that I had half an education and that I had been leaving out the role of women and feminism in Black History."

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