Lots o' Links

Links!

• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• Celebrate National Library Week "Celebrate National Library Week 2015 (April 12-18, 2015) with the theme 'Unlimited possibilities @ your library®.'"





• Free & Open to Everyone "The New Orleans Public Library is the only information, education, and entertainment resource in New Orleans that is free to access and open to everyone – regardless of age, race, or financial status; which is why so many people, from all walks of life, visit the library everyday." 
• In cash-strapped School District, a hidden treasure trove of books How frustrating...
• Tiny Library in Dr. Who Box Restored for Neighbors by Random Kindness
• Like a Rock Star – A Little Free Library Goes on Tour  
• March 18, 1932: John Updike is born 
• Mexican Journalist Is Fired After Report About First Lady 
• Arthur Conan Doyle was victim of police conspiracy, archives show "If it had a Sherlock Holmes title, it might be, The Case of the Writer of Detective Fiction Who Was Such a Good Real-Life Detective That Police Tried to Mislead Him to Discredit His Work."
• Alan Moore Heralds Providence: ‘It’s Time To Go For A Reappraisal Of Lovecraft’
• Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer Just Announced Their Pregnancy On Twitter Aw, yay!
• Health & Science
• Cheap, Efficient Electrodes Open Path For Hydrogen Fuel 
• West Virginia Passes Bill Rolling Back Regulations On Chemical Storage Tanks "The West Virginia legislature has passed a bill that scales back regulations meant to protect state waterways from storage tank spills, a piece of legislation that some worry could leave the state’s water more vulnerable to the kind of spill that contaminated the water of 300,000 state residents last year."
• Kraft Macaroni & Cheese recalled due to metal fragments 
• DNA Nanobots Set To Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells In Human Trial 
• 27 students at Olathe Northwest High School test positive for TB 
• Doctors perform first successful penis transplant 
• Diet Drinks Linked To Expanding Waistlines In Older Adults 
• Cough Medicine Ingredient May Aid Diabetes Fight 
• Total Solar Eclipse of 2015 Occurs This Week: How to See It Related: Solar eclipse, Supermoon, Spring equinox: Friday will see three rare celestial events 
• Parasite Causes Cannibalism In Shrimp Related: The Strain 
• Education
• Louisiana’s Class of 2014 ACT Scores Are In This Post "There is a reason Louisiana Superintendent John White has refused to release these scores to the public:  The Class of 2014 ACT composite scores for RSD do nothing to support the now-ten-year-old sales pitch that The Reforms Are Working in New Orleans." 
• How 'social air bags' for rich kids exacerbate unequal opportunity 
• International
• Tunisia museum attack kills at least 19; three suspects sought 
• Frankfurt Anti-Austerity Protests See Cars Torched At European Central Bank Opening 
• Christian Leaders Speak Out About Attack on Indian Convent 
• U.K. police use stop and search powers on 300 toddlers
• Other (Serious Stuff)
• Labor Organizers Disclose Complaints at McDonald’s Related: McDonald's Workers Are Regularly Told to Treat Burns With Condiments For the record, mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise are not effective treatments for burns.
• 1,000 Criminal Cases To Be Reviewed In Wake Of Racist, Homophobic Texts Sent Between San Francisco Cops 
• Wisconsin police officer kills suspect on first day back after previous shooting 
• Black UVA Student Martese Johnson Bloodied During Arrest By State Liquor Agents 
• TN Republican: 200,000 New Good Paying Jobs Potentially Bad For State  
• Sen. Warren Reintroduced a Student Loan Refi Bill: Our Thoughts