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May. 18th, 2014 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyOn Thursday, for the first time in its 14-year history, the U.S. Drought Monitor, a federal website, classified the entire state of California as being in a "severe drought." Texas is still in the clutches of a four-year drought that has shriveled crops and led to massive wildfires.
http://usat.ly/1gH0B5q
Beginner-friendly computer programming languages are making it easier for children and teens who are eager to try coding.
http://bit.ly/1lBfdPN
In a nondescript building in South Minneapolis, a small group of volunteers — all animal-rights activists — grab handfuls of musty old furs and tear them apart.
They aren’t venting their rage or trying to destroy the furs. Instead, they’re giving the furs new life as cuddly blankets for injured and orphaned animals across the country.
http://strib.mn/1vsQFk0
The Creeping Danger of Conspiracy Theorists
http://vnty.fr/1ndVmbR
Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why?
http://bit.ly/SaqijC
What Are Those Piles of Gunk on NYC Subway Platforms?
http://slate.me/TlW3XI
Why Libraries Matter (video)
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/371084/why-libraries-matter/
They mention that only 8 branches in the New York public library systems are open on Sundays. For a short time, two or three of our local ones were open Sundays, you can still see the ad on the boat, but they lost the funding for that. It's absolutely true that both the St. George and Stapleton libraries have lines before they open, and when I dropped off some books once at Battery Park City I noticed the same thing.
On that note, the NYPL and the Brooklyn Public Library are running their annual funding drives. Even if you can't donate anything, you can nag NYC elected officials.
http://www.nypl.org/speakout
http://misc.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/stb/
I Went to the Nutritionists' Annual Confab. It Was Catered by McDonald's.
http://bit.ly/1jgNDdy
Why Did AIDS Ravage the U.S. More Than Any Other Developed Country?
http://bit.ly/1nYY5tk
http://usat.ly/1gH0B5q
Beginner-friendly computer programming languages are making it easier for children and teens who are eager to try coding.
http://bit.ly/1lBfdPN
In a nondescript building in South Minneapolis, a small group of volunteers — all animal-rights activists — grab handfuls of musty old furs and tear them apart.
They aren’t venting their rage or trying to destroy the furs. Instead, they’re giving the furs new life as cuddly blankets for injured and orphaned animals across the country.
http://strib.mn/1vsQFk0
The Creeping Danger of Conspiracy Theorists
http://vnty.fr/1ndVmbR
Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA's dragnet. Why?
http://bit.ly/SaqijC
What Are Those Piles of Gunk on NYC Subway Platforms?
http://slate.me/TlW3XI
Why Libraries Matter (video)
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/371084/why-libraries-matter/
They mention that only 8 branches in the New York public library systems are open on Sundays. For a short time, two or three of our local ones were open Sundays, you can still see the ad on the boat, but they lost the funding for that. It's absolutely true that both the St. George and Stapleton libraries have lines before they open, and when I dropped off some books once at Battery Park City I noticed the same thing.
On that note, the NYPL and the Brooklyn Public Library are running their annual funding drives. Even if you can't donate anything, you can nag NYC elected officials.
http://www.nypl.org/speakout
http://misc.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/stb/
I Went to the Nutritionists' Annual Confab. It Was Catered by McDonald's.
http://bit.ly/1jgNDdy
Why Did AIDS Ravage the U.S. More Than Any Other Developed Country?
http://bit.ly/1nYY5tk
