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- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- Is That Man Carrying A Lobster? The Illusion of Perception "...[W]hile we librarians pride ourselves on drilling down to locate more complete information, those people who support and affect funding libraries often just see the headline or the first paragraph of a story and get misleading information. It’s not breaking news but it continues to be our responsibility to keep our constituency in the know. As Janice Del Negro stated in her recent 2015 Follett lecture, 'When we let other people tell our story, they get it wrong almost every time.'"
- What Google’s Algorithm Change Means for Library Websites
- Copy of original Star Wars script discovered in UNB library
- Is Reading the New Therapy?
- 27 Seriously Underrated Books Every Book Lover Should Read In case you're looking for a good book to read...
- Why The Clinton Foundation Wants More Parents To Read To Kids At Laundromats
- Net & Tech
- The Tempescope is an Ambient Weather Device that Simulates the Forecast on Your Desktop I need this. For reasons.
- 3 cool technologies that could save the world's water
- You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History That's insane!
- Health & Science
- 50 hospitals charge uninsured more than 10 times cost of care, study finds
- FDA approves mid-stage trial of vaccine to reverse type 1 diabetes
- How the Natural World has Helped Influence Culture and Society Neat!
- Engineers Develop Roadmap To Get The US To Run on 100% Renewable Energy By 2050
- New Program Helps You Identify Birds With One Photo
- Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past As Discworld's Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully would explain, "It's quantum."
- After Silences and Setbacks, the LightSail Spacecraft Is Revived, Deploying Its Solar Sail
- Authority Issues
- By the numbers: US police kill more in days than other countries do in years Related: Cops in one US city killed more people in 5 months than Icelandic police have in 71 years Are we ready to admit we have a problem yet?
- Homeowner Livid After SWAT Team Blows Up His Entire Home in Pursuit of Shoplifter
- 'Why Take My Vibrator?' - Michigan Cops Legally Rob 'Every Belonging' from Medical Marijuana Patient "...[L]ocal agencies...keep 100 percent of the proceeds from forfeitures, 'which gives them a strong incentive to target people based on the assets they own instead of the threat they pose to public safety,' Sullum wrote." She was entirely within the law - the judge dropped all charges, since she did absolutely nothing wrong - but the police still won't return her iPads, TVs, and other belongings - including her vibrator. Something seriously wrong is going on with civil asset forfeiture.
- For Black Women, Police Brutality And Sexual Harassment Go Hand In Hand
- Police Officer in McKinney, Tex., Resigns Over Incident Caught on Video Related: The Daily Show's Jessica Williams "reports" from McKinney, Texas, in a bikini and body armor "She added, 'But either way, this incident is progress … It's progress because a cop pulled a gun on a group of black kids, and nobody is dead.'" Well, there's that, anyway. Here, I'm just going to put in the whole bit:
- After 4 decades in solitary, Albert Woodfox's release ordered by federal judge
- Cleveland Leaders Bypass Prosecutors to Seek Charge in Tamir Rice Case "The highly unusual move is the latest sign that some African-Americans in Cleveland and around the country have lost confidence in a system that they see as too quick to side with police officers accused of using excessive force against blacks."
- Education
- Government to Forgive Student Loans at Corinthian Colleges
- Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans "I am sharply aware of the strongest objection to my lapse into default. If everyone acted as I did, chaos would result. The entire structure of American higher education would change." Huh. That's...actually not a bad idea.
- International
- 'I've Never Thanked My Parents for Anything' "In America, saying thank you is routine. In India, it can be insulting." Fascinating.
- Iceland put bankers in jail rather than bailing them out — and it worked
- Britain's Largest Grocer Is Giving Unsold Food To Those Who Need It "In 10 of its U.K. stores, Tesco will be giving away food it otherwise would dispose of to women's refuge centers and children breakfast clubs. The move will help curb the massive amount of food wasted globally each year -- a problem that allows widespread hunger to persist."
- Chinese actor sued for staring too intensely from TV at viewer Uh...okay...
- Other (Serious Stuff)
- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Threatens to Defund Judiciary if It Rules Against Him "Thursday's startling maneuver suggests the deeply conservative governor has no compunction about simply obliterating separation of powers when another branch of government gets in his way."
- Use It or Lose It: Across the West, Exercising One’s Right to Waste Water "'Use it or lose it' clauses, as they are known, are common in state laws throughout the Colorado River basin and give the farmers, ranchers and governments holding water rights a powerful incentive to use more water than they need. Under the provisions of these measures, people who use less water than they are legally entitled to risk seeing their allotment slashed."
- Airline refuses to compensate wheelchair-bound woman forced to crawl onto plane
- Other (Interesting Stuff)
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