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- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- Office Has Cat Library! Employees Can ‘Check Out’ Cats To Take To Their Desk I want to work at that library...
- Missing prints were created by artists at pinnacle of their craft "The two works that are missing, possibly stolen, from the Boston Public Library are by artists who would make anyone’s Top 10 list of the most important artists in the history of Western art. But the works by Rembrandt and Dürer are prints, and so it’s difficult to measure the loss."
- ‘Of Mice and Men’ stays on CdA schools reading list
- Why do books about women rarely win top literary prizes?
- E.L. James' 'Grey' shoots to top of Amazon bestsellers in just one day I just don't understand, people.
- Net & Tech
- NSA Patriot Act Surveillance Powers Temporarily Suspended "The affected legislation consists of the Patriot Act's Section 215, one of the most controversial part of the law that allowed for the bulk collection of Americans' phone calls, and Section 206, the 'roving wiretap' that granted US authorities the power to carry out surveillance on all phone and internet communications used by a suspect with a single warrant, regardless of who else was using them. The Senate is expected to bring those provisions back to life with the passing of the USA Freedom Act, which will reinstate Section 215, albeit in watered-down form."
- Senate Approves USA Freedom Act, After Amendments Fail Well, I suppose Zombie 215 is free to roam, now.
- Congressman: Senate Vote 'Exonerates Snowden'
- Google's AI Is Training Itself to Count Calories In Food Photos
- Health & Science
- Minnesota hospitals will be able to dispense medical marijuana
- Climate of change: The Catholic church’s dance with science
- Many Endangered Species Doing Too Well For Their Own Good
- Koalas Listed As Vulnerable Throughout Queensland
- TPP
- Obama’s Dizzying Spin on the Environment and Trade
- Anti-TPP Top Dem Rosa DeLauro: POTUS “is in bed with the multinational corporations” Related: Connecticut liberal battles Obama on trade
- Authority Issues
- Fatal police shootings in 2015 approaching 400 nationwide
- William Chapman: unarmed 18-year-old shot dead by officer who killed before
- Florida police murder black computer engineer as he listens to music; attempted cover-up exposed
- Officers who sat on handcuffed Scott man not indicted
- Other (Serious Stuff)
- How Mainstream is Bernie Sanders? Actually, he's right-smack in the middle of mainstream.
- FBI behind mysterious surveillance flights over Chicago, other U.S. cities "The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country, including Chicago, carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned. The planes' surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge's approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations...But the planes can capture video of unrelated criminal activity on the ground that could be handed over for prosecutions."
- 'Stand Your Ground' Defense Planned By Man Accused Of Shooting George Zimmerman
- The ‘Water Witch’: Pat Mulroy Preached Conservation While Backing Growth in Las Vegas "Yet even last summer — staring at the effects of growth and drought on the reservoir, where once-drowned islands were visible for the first time in as much as 75 years — Mulroy apologized for none of it. She bridled at the idea that Las Vegas or other desert cities had reached the outer edge of what their environments could support. 'That's the silliest thing I have ever heard,' she said, her voice rising in anger. 'I've had it right up to here with all this "Stop your growth."'"
- Outrageous! Nestle’s CEO on water profiteering in California: “If I could increase it, I would”
- Carriages Crash On Alton Towers 'Smiler' Ride
- The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion
- Other (Interesting Stuff)
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