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Parents and teachers, I implore you!
May. 21st, 2018 12:10 amGet to the library and take out a few books in your kid's age range that were printed in this century. Please, please, please expand your horizons past the same ten books everybody recommends all the time.
(This goes double for authors of children's books. If your main character likes to read, and was born in 1997, she's probably read something a bit more modern than Little House. If you're going to namedrop The Saturdays and Ballet Shoes and Five Children and It, you could at least allude to Harry Potter.)
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One Small Leap: The Enduring Appeal of Mexican Jumping Beans
Turning carbon dioxide into rock - forever
Six unidentified girls on Wall Street stoop (No points for identifying the stoop, the street still looks very similar today.)
Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers With Pea Shooters
Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia
Communicating colours using black and white - a new app with a new perspective on language evolution
The decline of Snapchat and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
Mice With 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
Robots grow mini-organs from human stem cells
Twins treated for genetic disorder in the womb
To regulate fecal transplants, FDA has to first answer a serious question: What is poop?
The Army’s First Black Nurses Were Relegated to Caring for Nazi Prisoners of War
In New Jersey, the top lobbying spenders are from the following industries: energy, healthcare, insurance, and... balloons.
Woman Nervously Reaches For Cell Phone As Suspicious Black Man Tells Her Today’s Soup Is Minestrone (It's funny because it's true...!)
Welcome to Asbestos
As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’
Doug Schifter waged a one-man campaign to stop Uber from putting his fellow black-car drivers out of business. Then he decided to take his own life.
Congress takes food from 2 million poor people — and doesn’t even save money (Remember, SNAP is the biggest economic stimulus we've got! Pouring more money into SNAP gets us nearly double a return on our investment.)
Letter from Africa: Why is no-one talking about the Zamfara conflict?
Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation (Note: This article is extremely upsetting. I didn't make it all the way through. I had to take a break to snuggle my pets.)
(This goes double for authors of children's books. If your main character likes to read, and was born in 1997, she's probably read something a bit more modern than Little House. If you're going to namedrop The Saturdays and Ballet Shoes and Five Children and It, you could at least allude to Harry Potter.)
One Small Leap: The Enduring Appeal of Mexican Jumping Beans
Turning carbon dioxide into rock - forever
Six unidentified girls on Wall Street stoop (No points for identifying the stoop, the street still looks very similar today.)
Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers With Pea Shooters
Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia
Communicating colours using black and white - a new app with a new perspective on language evolution
The decline of Snapchat and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
Mice With 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
Robots grow mini-organs from human stem cells
Twins treated for genetic disorder in the womb
To regulate fecal transplants, FDA has to first answer a serious question: What is poop?
The Army’s First Black Nurses Were Relegated to Caring for Nazi Prisoners of War
In New Jersey, the top lobbying spenders are from the following industries: energy, healthcare, insurance, and... balloons.
Woman Nervously Reaches For Cell Phone As Suspicious Black Man Tells Her Today’s Soup Is Minestrone (It's funny because it's true...!)
Welcome to Asbestos
As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’
Doug Schifter waged a one-man campaign to stop Uber from putting his fellow black-car drivers out of business. Then he decided to take his own life.
Congress takes food from 2 million poor people — and doesn’t even save money (Remember, SNAP is the biggest economic stimulus we've got! Pouring more money into SNAP gets us nearly double a return on our investment.)
Letter from Africa: Why is no-one talking about the Zamfara conflict?
Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation (Note: This article is extremely upsetting. I didn't make it all the way through. I had to take a break to snuggle my pets.)
