Another Happy Day!

Today is World Book Day!

For fun, check out some awesome World Book Day costumes!

Some people are arguing over whether or not Frozen characters are appropriate - after all, Frozen is a movie, not a book! Well, that's only sort of true.

There are now books based on Frozen. Sure, it started out as a movie, but you'd be surprised how many kids see the movie, recognize the characters on the book cover, and then grab the book to read. Hey, any in will do! How do you get a kid excited about reading? Let them read what they're interested in reading! If that means reading a book based on a movie, great! After they finish reading Frozen, why not introduce them to retellings of  fairy tales, particularly those with great illustrations?

So, sure, bring on the Elsa and Anna costumes! Hooray for World Book Day!



Links!

• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• Maya Angelou postage stamp revealed 
• India bans 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film, but the book's a hit there 
• Health & Science
• U.S. faces 90,000 doctor shortage by 2025, medical school association warns 
• These Red States Say They Knew Obamacare Subsidies Were Conditional—They're Full of It 
• Tobacco Kills Two Out of Three Smokers 
• Coloring Isn't Just For Kids. It Can Actually Help Adults Combat Stress. 
• Americans Love K-Cups, but Their Creator Regrets Inventing Them "'I don't have one. They're kind of expensive to use,' Sylvan told The Atlantic. Sylvan isn't just worried about the negative impact of K-Cups on his wallet. As with plenty of environmental activists, he's concerned about all those plastic pods ending up in landfills. With enough K-Cups sold in 2014 to encircle the globe at least 10.5 times, Sylvan seems to be regretting his invention....Sylvan...knows how to make the pods sustainable, but...Keurig Green Mountain refuses to listen to him."
• After 400 Million Years, Coelacanth at Risk of Extinction 
• Education
• Why Our Children Don’t Think There Are Moral Facts "In summary, our public schools teach students that all claims are either facts or opinions and that all value and moral claims fall into the latter camp. The punchline: there are no moral facts. And if there are no moral facts, then there are no moral truths." This is a really huge problem. "If it's not true that it's wrong to murder a cartoonist with whom one disagrees, then how can we be outraged? If there are no truths about what is good or valuable or right, how can we prosecute people for crimes against humanity? If it's not true that all humans are created equal, then why vote for any political system that doesn't benefit you over others?"
• Other
• Driver Threatening Black Women Says He Isn't Afraid of Police Because "I'm White" 
• When four cops have to use deadly force to subdue a man, something's wrong 
• Disabled Veteran Cleared: Video Proves Cops, Prosecutors Faked Punitive Charges 
• House Approves Amtrak Funding, Rewrites Rules To Allow Furry Riders They mean pets, not fetishists. I mean, I'm guessing fetishists can ride, too, but it would be really weird to single them out, wouldn't it? 
• Woman Sues Restaurant For $100,000 For Bad Valentine's Day Service Wowsers...
• Road to Mauna Kea summit closed as snow continues to fall