The Office of Presidential Libraries (OPL) at the National Archives is well underway with the planning of the Donald J. Trump Presidential L...

 

Language is such a many splendored thing....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sunday/civil-society-library.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=S...

Here's an interesting infographic on U.S. land use: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

https://youtu.be/3V9QHBgrPNY

"The local library needs to become that place of congregation. It should combine coffee shop, book exchange, playgroup, art gallery, mu...

Zlatan and Chiellini having the time of their lives on the roller coaster at Liseberg! In the Knowbodies series "Footballers enjoying t...

There is something deeply repugnant about Linked-in. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but Ann Friedman certainly captures some of it.

NPR on do we really need libraries ? "A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never fail...

Smell like an old book...

Heather Bandeen, a Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway, has compiled a wonderful collection of data visualization and demographic tools - che...

I was playing with the New York Times Chronicle tool, and rediscovered to my delight (rediscovery is one of the few delights of old age) th...

Universities eagerly await the Shanghai and Times Higher Ed rankings each year (the Shanghai rankings were released earlier this week), alwa...

I think it was Steve Jobs who said "people don't read anymore," but in fact people are reading way too much In the old days pe...

Nice picture, reminds me of that memorable scene from Dylan Thomas  "A Child's Christmas in Wales"  "And when the firem...

Such a truly outstanding Christmas decoration should be revisited each holiday season!  And testimony by the anonymous prankster about t...

How heartening! In November, 2003, I posted some hearsay about a useful resource-to-be at the National Archives, and 10 years to the month l...

From NPR : a nice graph showing what's important and what's not.  Petroleum Engineering most important, Early Childhood Education, H...

Neil Gaiman on reading and obligation at the Reading Agency.

The Hechinger Report on the challenges of ranking universities.  The Rankings U.S. News & World Report, national universities Pr...

Animation by Tim Minchin on alternative medicine, "scientism" and more...

More good stuff from the Baffler: Ann Friedman discusses the uselessness of Linked-in in " All Linked-in with Nowhere to Go ". Cho...

The Baffler 's business is debunking (theme for the current issue is "A Carnival of Buncombe"), and Thomas Frank's  is not...