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FASTR Zooms Out of Senate Committee "'FASTR would require federal departments and agencies with an annual extramural research budget of $100 million to develop a policy to ensure that researchers submit an electronic copy of the final manuscript accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Additionally, the bill would also require that each taxpayer-funded manuscript be made available to the public online and without cost, no later than twelve months after the article has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.'" If the taxpayers pay for it, the taxpayers ought to be able to read it! Hurrah!
Boy Who Couldn’t Afford Books Asks Mailman For Junk Mail To Read; Mailman Responds Spectacularly
How 'A Wrinkle in Time' Changed Sci-Fi Forever
Authors tweet hilarious advice on what NOT to say to a writer “I thought you were dead” Heh.

Georgia is Segregating Troublesome Kids in Schools Used During Jim Crow "Georgia has been illegally and unnecessarily segregating thousands of students with behavioral issues and disabilities, isolating them in run-down facilities and providing them with subpar education, according to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Some of the students in the program were schooled in the same inferior buildings that served black children in the days of Jim Crow. The investigation found that many of the buildings lack gyms, cafeterias, libraries, labs, playgrounds and other amenities."
Teacher blasts popular classroom training program: It is turning us into robots. Craziness...
Don’t Make These Common Higher Education Mistakes "Those who say that college is affordable use the word 'price' to mean tuition and fees. Those who say that college is increasingly unaffordable are referring to a larger definition of price that includes room and board, transportation, and other expenses students accrue in order to complete college."

University Of Cincinnati Police Officer Charged In Killing Of Unarmed Black Man
This is Why Even Innocence and Compliance is No Guarantee of Your Safety During a Police Stop " At every stage of my adulthood, I’ve been pulled over by cops, dragged out of my car, handcuffed, spoken to like I was a stupid little boy, humiliated in public, called racial slurs, and manhandled by multiple guys with badges multiples times (without being arrested or charged with anything), in spite of the fact that I’ve never been armed, and I’ve always complied with their every request."
Dylann Roof Is Not a “Terrorist” — But Animal Rights Activists Who Free Minks From Slaughter Are The FBI has a different definition of "terrorist" than I do, apparently.

Under a Shroud of Secrecy and Security, ALEC Conference Gets Underway "The two big lightning rod topics at ALEC continue to be education and energy issues, with the two biggest ALEC enemies being public schools and the EPA."
Rich people, surrounded by other rich people, think the U.S. is richer than it really is "And this influences how they feel about programs for the poor."
Executives Dump Beer on the Heads of Lakota Tribe Children and Face Almost No Punishment
Arizona Drug Tested Welfare Recipients — Here Are the Shocking Results It's only shocking if you didn't expect it to be a waste of time and money. If you expected it would be pointless, a drain on financial resources, and show that the vast majority of welfare recipients are not, in fact, poor because they're throwing all their money away on drugs - well, it's not so much "shocking" as "obvious."
Donald Trump spreads the message that 'Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband' Just...wow. If that man becomes president, I'm moving to Canada or Kenya or somewhere, I don't know. What. An. Ass. He's probably a rapist, he's definitely racist and sexist, and he's not actually a good businessman. Why is he a serious contender for the presidency??
100K sign up to attend Sanders events "More than 100,000 people have signed up to attend grassroots gatherings being held across the country on Wednesday night in support of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s White House bid."

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