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• Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
• Pratt Library Gets Grant After Staying Open Despite Riots 
• Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins Man Booker International Prize 
• Osama Bin Laden’s eclectic and paranoid collection of books Interesting list, actually. Related: Osama bin Laden's bookshelf revealed: What you can learn from his reading list 
• How To Spot And Critique Censorship Tropes In The Media's Coverage Of Free Speech Controversies 
• 19 Free Art Museums You Should Visit This Summer 
• This was the biggest political science study of last year. It was a complete fraud. "Outright fraud like LaCour's is rarer and more shocking than findings that don't hold up to replication or simple data entry errors. But it should serve as a reminder — both to people like me who report on studies and to the readers we've trying to serve — that pinning your hopes on one study is a foolish proposition." 
• Net & Tech
• Pre-thoughtcrime: Russian think tank app catches protestors before they protest 
• Protests grow against Facebook's Internet.org Related: Internet.org Is Not Neutral, Not Secure, and Not the Internet 
• Title II Fans Launch Net Neutrality 'Detector' 
• Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance Related: Survey Finds Americans Don’t Trust Government and Companies to Protect Privacy 
• ISPs really don’t want to follow new customer data privacy rules
• Tweets now appear in Google search results 
• Racist query terms in Google Maps trigger the White House in results Ooooh, that's bad... 
• Anti-Islam film ban lifted for Google 
• Up to 1.1 Million Customers Could be Affected in Data Breach at Insurer CareFirst 
• Health & Science
• Why Does Day Care Protect Children Against Leukemia? 
• Iron Levels Could Help Predict Risk of Alzheimer's Disease 
• How A Machine Learned To Spot Depression 
• Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Leg Unveiled 
• Woman sues Anthem Blue Cross for refusing to cover hepatitis C drug 
• FTC: Cancer charities scammed $187M from consumers 
• Pollinator Politics: Environmentalists Criticize Obama Plan To Save Bees "Many environmentalists say restoring bee habitat is a good place to start, but they're critical that the Obama administration has not taken a harder line in limiting the use of neonicotinoids."
• Wildlife, pristine beaches focus of 'aggressive' oil spill cleanup "Just days before the Memorial Day weekend, which typically marks the start of summer, a 24-inch pipeline ruptured along the Santa Barbara coast Tuesday, leaking the oil near Refugio State Beach, a protected state park."
• Education
• Teacher arrested after claims he let students have sex in storage closet 
• Minnesota teachers want online test scores tossed 
• Activist Emma Sulkowicz Carries Mattress Across Stage At Columbia Graduation 
• Authority Issues
• Tear down the ‘blue wall of silence': New York Dem destroys sheriff who blames police violence on blacks 
• Graham: Why no body cameras for Capitol Police? 
• International
• Six year old blamed for his own rape in Argentina 
• Beatification of El Salvador’s Oscar Romero a turning point for Catholicism 
• Other (Serious Stuff)
• L.A. cares about its workers, raises the minimum wage to $15. It's the largest city to do it so far. 
• Arizona legislature votes to cut off welfare benefits after 12 months "As a result, the Arizona department of economic security will drop at least 1,600 families – including more than 2,700 children – from the state’s federally funded welfare programme when the budget year begins in July." It's just sick that politicians are balancing budgets on the suffering of poor children. In the end, too, it doesn't save money: "Long-term welfare recipients are often the most vulnerable, suffering from mental and physical disabilities, poor job histories and little education, she said. But without welfare, they will probably show up in other ways that will cost taxpayers, from emergency rooms to shelters to the criminal justice system, Schott said." 
• Cheney Thought al Qaeda was Bluffing This is why national security is not a poker game.
• George W. Bush's CIA Briefer: Bush and Cheney Falsely Presented WMD Intelligence to Public 
• Bernie Sanders Wants Wall Street To Pay For Higher Education  
• 5 Banks to Pay Billions and Plead Guilty in Currency and Interest Rate Cases 
• Boondoggle HQ: The $25 Million Building in Afghanistan Nobody Needed "This is a story about how the U.S. military built a lavish headquarters in Afghanistan that wasn’t needed, wasn’t wanted and wasn’t ever used—at a cost to American taxpayers of at least $25 million." I don't like this story.
• Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF