Links!
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- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- Libraries and Librarians: Essential to Thriving Schools
- (VT) State cuts could cause libraries to lose federal funding
- America’s ‘national library’ is lacking in leadership, yet another report finds This would be the Library of Congress, which is not, and has never been, an actual "national library." The U.S. doesn't have a national library.
- Another major publisher is going to war with Amazon "The contract between 'Big Five' book publisher HarperCollins and Amazon is about to expire, and HarperCollins is refusing to sign an agreement with the new terms that Amazon is asking, a source with knowledge of the situation tells Business Insider."
- How The TPP Agreement Could Be Used To Undermine Free Speech And Fair Use In The US
- For April Fools' Day, a celebrated literary hoax
- Net & Tech
- You Can Play Pac-Man On Google Maps Right Now
- Thousands call on Congress to overturn net neutrality rules Really?? Massive Anti-Net Neutrality E-mail Campaign Shows Signs Of Faking Many Signatures "...it certainly speaks to the quality of your argument when you need to either buy -- or just outright fabricate -- your support." Yeah.
- Feds Investigating Silk Road Accused Of Stealing Bitcoin, Abusing Gov't Power, Issuing Fake Subpoenas
- China has weaponized the Great Firewall, says a free-speech group
- Health & Science
- Van Gogh's Turbulent Mind Captured Turbulence
- Night Owls at Higher Risk of Diabetes, Other Illnesses
- Air pollution may be damaging children’s brains – before they are even born Related: Study Reveals Sad Link Between Poverty And Children's Brain Development
- Genome editing poses ethical problems that we cannot ignore
- Despite Decades Of Deforestation, The Earth Is Getting Greener
- Conservationists Plan To Airlift 100 Rhinos To Save Them From Poaching
- Meet The World’s Most-Traded, Least-Known Mammal
- New 'Intraterrestrial' Virus Found in Ocean Depths
- Education
- International
- Kenya Garissa students taken hostage by al-Shabab
- Iran nuclear talks: Obama hails 'historic' agreement as Iranians celebrate — live updates
- Other (Serious Stuff)
- Sailor missing since January found off Cape Hatteras
- California Imposes First Mandatory Water Restrictions to Deal With Drought
- How one California farmer is battling the worst drought in 1,200 years
- Charged With Same Crime, Iowa Paper Shows Black Suspects’ Mug Shots While Whites Get Yearbook Photos
- Vineland Man Dies After Being Taken Into Police Custody
- American police killed more people in March (111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900
- Heartbreaking: Married Father Of Three Adopted From South Korea Now Faces Deportation
- Other (Fun Stuff)
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