- The Innovation Fetish and Slow Librarianship: What Librarians Can Learn From the Juicero [In the Library with the Lead Pipe]
- How Hitchcock Kept Psycho a Secret [Now I Know]
- Short Story Dispensers Spread Power of Literature [School Library Journal]
- Opinion: Is science really facing a reproducibility crisis, and do we need it to? [PNAS]
- The citizenship question on the 2020 census, explained [Vox]
- The Case of Hong Kong’s Missing Booksellers [The New York Times]
- The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google [NPR]
- Everything* You Always Wanted To Know About Blockchain (But Were Afraid To Ask) [The Scholarly Kitchen]
- The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete [The Atlantic]
- State of America’s Libraries 2018 [American Libraries]
- From protoscience to proper science: The path ahead for reforming psychology [The Guardian]
- The Era of Fake Video Begins [The Atlantic]
- On getting punched in the face while working at the library [The Enquirer]
- The Natural Enemy of the Librarian [Triple Canpoy]
- Google loses landmark 'right to be forgotten' case [The Guardian]
- By the Numbers: Bookmobiles [American Libraries]
- 25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools [The New York Times]
- Google’s latest AI experiments let you talk to books and test word association skills [The Verge]
- Viplavi [The Kathmandu Post]
- Go Medieval by Attaching a Book to Your Belt [Atlas Obscura]
- Book publishing’s fact-checking failure, as illustrated by the Sally Kohn controversy [Vox]
- Barbara Bush Believed Literacy Could Cure Other Ills [U.S. News & World Report]
- Science's "Reproducibility Crisis" Is Being Used as Political Ammunition [Wired]
- Scholarly Publishing’s Last Stand [The Chronicle of Higher Education]
- Monkey can't sue to copyright protect selfie, court rules [CNET]
- Former CSUF library dean Clem Guthro alleges university made false claims and misrepresented facts behind his firing [Daily Titan]
- Casting Aside Shame And Stigma, Adults Tackle Struggles With Literacy [NPR]
- Should we ban books denying the Holocaust from high street shops? [New Statesman]
- Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefits for Behavior and Attention [The New York Times]
- How Technology Is Changing The Way Blind People Get Visual Information [Hear and Now]
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