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- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- Funding for libraries is becoming more important, not less
- How some savvy librarians saved the Treasure of Timbuktu
- Archival discoveries and collaboration at Minnesota Public Radio "Marking the 40th anniversary of the first large-scale arrival of Hmong people in Minnesota, MPR News recently launched a Hmong collection page and broadcast a few news stories–all using archive recordings to tell the story of Hmong-Minnesotans."
- Why There Should Be an Oscar Category for Dramatic Research
- Terry Pratchett: Reading order for Discworld I chose to read them chronologically this time around; usually, I use the Penny Pincher way.
- Terry Pratchett will 'live on in the clacks' thanks to fans' programming code "Now GNU Terry Pratchett will run through the internet forever, underlining Pratchett's own line in Going Postal: 'A man's not dead while his name's still spoken.'"
- The Inklings: Good Books On C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Their Friends There's a new one coming out!
- March 16, 1850: The Scarlet Letter is published I prefer Hawthorne's short stories; "Young Goodman Brown" is a favorite!
- Net & Tech
- Science & Health
- California Announces Audit of Insurance Company That Took Away Home Health Aide "California’s labor department says it will conduct an audit of how Travelers Insurance handled the case of paralyzed worker Joel Ramirez, who was left to fend for himself for months after the company withdrew his 24-hour home health care."
- Cancer Drug Shows Promise In Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
- Humans Killed Almost Three Million Whales During 20th Century That's too many whales, guys.
- Watch This Week's Total Solar Eclipse Live
- Health Check: why does hair change colour and turn grey? Personally, I like my grey hairs.
- Other (Serious Stuff)
- Bob Schieffer To Sen. Tom Cotton: Who Gets A Letter Next? North Korea?
- Robert Durst of HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ Says He ‘Killed Them All’
- Louisiana National Guard identifies Black Hawk copter crew killed in crash
- Americans Name Government as No. 1 U.S. Problem That's probably a pretty bad sign...
- Tom Cotton picked apart by Army general over ‘mutinous’ Iran letter
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