Links!
Links!
- Libraries, Books, Writers, & Suchlike
- The People You Can Check Out of the Library
- Rockaway Beach Library Set to Reopen for First Time Since Sandy
- Preserving Africa’s Heritage
- Up From The Ashes, A Public Library In Sri Lanka Welcomes New Readers
- ‘Drinkable book’ filters filthy water and makes it safer to drink, researchers say
- This School Gets Kids to Read—By Giving Them a Bike
- From Harry Potter Latin to Hunger Games Rome: the classical jokes hiding in your favourite children's books
- Maya Angelou's Art Collection Will Give You The Fire To Finish The Day Right
- 14 Women Writers Who Dominate The Universe Of Sci-Fi
- 11 Frequently Banned Books By Female Writers That You Absolutely Cannot Miss
- IRONY ALERT: Downers Grove Council Approves Would-be Censor for Library Board
- Misleading AP Story on Iran Deal Draws Fierce Critique
- Health, Science, Net, & Tech
- Education
- Fourth-grade math questions referenced alcohol, food stamps
- Stephen Colbert: SC Teachers' $800,000 man "Comedian Stephen Colbert announced Thursday that he would fund every existing grant request South Carolina public school teachers have made on the education crowdfunding website DonorsChoose.org."
- Louisiana
- Ashley Madison client list includes Louisiana GOP executive director; he says it was for research "The director of the statewide Republican Party said via text message that an account was created under his name and his former personal credit card billing address in connection with the work of his law firm, Doré Jeansonne. He declined to say who he was using the account for." TOTALLY BELIEVABLE, GUYS!
- Baton Rouge school board agrees to lower sports GPA requirement Because I guess sports are more important than education?
- 10 New Orleanians on How Katrina Changed Their City
- Starting Over "Many Katrina victims left New Orleans for good. What can we learn from them?"
- Politics
- Noam Chomsky: How America's Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes
- And Now the Richest .01 Percent "The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend it on? As you might expect, personal jets, giant yachts, works of art, and luxury penthouses. And also on politics. In fact, their political spending has been growing faster than their spending on anything else. It’s been growing even faster than their wealth."
- Ted Cruz tells pro-slavery radio host that saying ‘anchor baby’ is ‘speaking truth’ to power
- Jimmy Carter: ‘I’ll be prepared for anything that comes Related: Pres. Carter Came Home From Radiation To Find This Heartwarming Surprise
- International
- Tsipras Calls Early Greek Elections to Strengthen Grip on Power
- PM Gruevski: Government (Macedonia) declares state of emergency to boost control of migrants' inflow
- Other (Serious Stuff)
- Artists Transform Heartbreaking Letters From Detained Migrants Into Gripping Works Of Art
- Gun Violence Archive
- Nestle Pays Only $524 to Extract 27,000,000 Gallons of California Drinking Water Not only is Nestle draining the state drier during a time of drought, it's doing so through very shady business practices - really, like, "dark side of the moon" shady.
- Other (Randomness)
- UFC champ Ronda Rousey meets Holly Holm – not Miesha Tate – at UFC 195 It's a better match-up, but my money's still on Rousey.
- When GIFs Meet Traditional Japanese Art My favorite:
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