Wednesday, June 25, 2014

On Living Life and Accepting Death

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  photo by Lari Huttunen (cc by-nc-nd 2.0) I don’t believe in an afterlife, which means I do believe in death. It shouldn’t be such a s...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Quote of the Day: Jensen on Library Neutrality

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"Take a simple example involving the common assumption in the United States that the capitalist economic system is the only rational an...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Quote of the Day: Barack Obama on Special Interests

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"I've never been entirely comfortable with the term 'special-interests,' which lumps together ExxonMobil and bricklayers, t...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Quote of the Day: Barack Obama on Reading Critically

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A 1950 edition. ‘“Sister Regina,” Marcus said. “You know Barack, don’t you? I’m trying to tell Brother Barack here about this racist t...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

How We Know Abstinence-Only Education Doesn't Work

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Abstinence-only education does not reduce teen pregnancy. If it did, decades of research would have demonstrated this many times over. Ins...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Quote of the Day: Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fiction

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"I was in China in 2007, at the first party-approved science fiction and fantasy convention in Chinese history. And at one point I took...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

When Librarians Go To War: The ALA War Service 1917-18

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"[T]o make better men of the soldiers as well as to make better soldiers of the men." 1 World War I lasted from 1914 to 1918, wi...