November 18, 2013

When, in February 2013, the White House issued a directive stating that all larger federal agencies (agencies that spent over $100 million R&D annually) should make the results of any… Read more »

Education

The scientific theory behind what makes Dr. Seuss funny — Zeljka Marosevic
Tea Party chair calls for UN fund-raising book by Kermit the Frog to be banned — Taylor Sperry
Uproar over publication of Haruki Murakami's high school library records — Liam O'Brien
A new pronoun in the Mx. — Taylor Sperry

Sorry, novelists, Google just made lying obsolete

Dustin Kurtz

Google subsidiary Motorola has just patented a throat tattoo that includes a microphone and, just for the hell of it, a lie detector. Thanks, Google. The neck tattoo microphone—most likely… Read more »

Women writers on sexism in the industry

Emma Aylor

On Friday, Brooklyn Based published a wide-ranging set of responses from five female authors on sexism in publishing, primarily fiction. Orli Van Mourik begins her piece by briefly covering the… Read more »

Which drugs and diseases are on YOUR library books?

Nick Davies

Here’s one to file under the Gross Yet Somehow Unsurprising section in your mental filing cabinet. We all heard last year about the horrors of bedbugs in libraries, but two… Read more »

New York State Library’s “Dallas, 11/22/63: 50 Years Later” exhibit

Claire Kelley

The New York State Library in Albany is commemorating the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination with an exhibit,”Dallas, 11/22/63: 50 Years Later,” which will be open until the… Read more »

Melville House Books

Open Access advocates protest the FIRST Act

Sal Robinson