Retiring a Library, Or, Sometimes Books Need To Be Disposed
During my four years at a small university in Mississippi, I worked in the library as an assistant. Initially, I interviewed because I liked the idea...
Children and Chicks Rule This Children’s Book Week!
To celebrate Children’s Book Week, which is from April 29th to May 5th, I read a children’s book that’s been on my TBR for awhile: Chicks...
Can You Guess Which Words Are Real and Which Are Fake?: Critical Linking, May 5, 2019Q
Sponsored by Audible. Quiz: Can you guess which words are real and which are fake? I got 6/10. Audiobooks are often synonymous with long-form narratives. Poetry,...
The Best Acoustic Guitars for Beginners
BlueSkyImage/Shutterstock.com Learning to play the guitar is incredibly rewarding, occasionally frustrating, and potentially very expensive. To counteract that last point, we’ve tracked down the best acoustic...
Canelo vs. Jacobs Recap – Canelo Unifies With UD Win
On Saturday night, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez scored a unanimous decision victory over Daniel Jacobs to become the unified WBA “super”, WBC, and IBF middleweight champion. The...
Geek Trivia: Iconic Trivia Column “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” Began Life As?
Iconic Trivia Column “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” Began Life As? A Bar Bet A College Project A Prison Newspaper Column A Sports Cartoon Think you...
FAA Revises Predictions for Commercial Drone Market, Estimates It Will Triple by 2023
After an explosive increase in commercial drone registrations in 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration has revised its predictions for the sector and now expects it to...
Trump Is Very, Very Mad About Facebook’s Latest Purge of Conspiracy Theorists and Far-Right Trolls
This week, Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram banned a number of far-right figures, including white supremacists and conspiracy theorists, in a somewhat clumsily executed effort to...
The Battle of Winterfell on Game of Thrones Almost Had a Silly Political Ad Lib
Sometimes, actors just need to say something. Anything. That’s a lot of pressure, especially when you’re under stress. So occasionally you say weird things. Read more…...
Hosting Company Suspends Account Over Open Source BitTorrent Software
Invented by Bram Cohen nearly two decades ago, BitTorrent has established itself as the premier protocol to share large files among a broad audience and minimal...
