It's a Happy Day!
Today is World Read Aloud Day!
It's also National Grammar Day!
Perhaps it's a great day to read a book on good grammar to your kids!
Links!
It's also National Grammar Day!
Perhaps it's a great day to read a book on good grammar to your kids!
Links!
- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- Reviving the Library in Greece: The Future Is Now for the Future Library Network and the INELI-Balkans Project
- Kansas and the right to free expression "Here we are again, with the amorphous specter of public morals used to stifle free expression. On the face of it, it’s hard to argue.... What parent wants his or her child exposed to pornography? But the question is, as it has ever been, what constitutes pornography and who makes the rules. Last week...'Rep. Joseph Scapa, a Wichita Republican, called a book by Toni Morrison, a Nobel Prize-winning author, pornographic.'"
- South Windsor Teacher Suspended Over Inappropriate Poem
- Are you shaped by the books you read as a kid? These people think so.
- Read Aloud to Ignite a World of Possibility
- How a book club is helping to keep ex-offenders from going back to jail
- March 4, 1952: Ernest Hemingway finishes The Old Man and the Sea
- March 4, 1965: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini is born
- Douglas Adams made me a writer: Neil Gaiman salutes his friend and inspiration
- Librarians Portrayed in Comics I love Rex Libris!
- Finding meteorite impacts in Aboriginal oral tradition
- E-books Go Out of Fashion As Book Sales Revive
- Net & Tech
- Government hustles to enact privacy rules for drones
- GOP introduces bill to block Internet rules
- Republican lawmakers question FCC budget after net neutrality vote
- Here's how Minecraft creates its gigantic worlds
- Science & Health
- A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years
- The Power of Touch
- Ancient Britons had wheat 2000 years before they had farms
- Archeologists Uncover Genghis Khan’s Lost Mongolian Fortress
- Newly Identified Hormone Reduces Diet-Induced Obesity In Rodents "Although research has so far been limited to rodents, the scientists are hopeful that the identification of this hormone could lead to the development of novel ways to treat certain metabolic disorders, like diabetes."
- Zombie-Town USA Very cool!
- How energy from dry ice could power human colonies on Mars
- Authority Issues
- Other
- The Demolition of Workers’ Comp "Over the past decade, states have slashed workers’ compensation benefits, denying injured workers help when they need it most and shifting the costs of workplace accidents to taxpayers."
- The New York Times Blows It With Misleading Hit Job on Clinton Emails Turns out, the NYT was accusing Clinton of not following regulations enacted two years after she left office. Which...is ridiculous, at best.
- For the First Time in 30 Years, Unemployment Fell in Every State in 2014
