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May 15th, 2013
npr: Last week, we wrote about the way members of minority groups are frequently linked in the popular imagination with prominent fellow members of their group. We asked Channing Kennedy, frequent contributor to Colorlines.com, for a commentary on this phenomenon from the perspective of someone without any immediately obvious minority affiliations. Here’s what he told us: Can A White Guy Represent For His People? : Code Switch Photo: Hatty Lee / Colorlines Interesting….

npr:

Last week, we wrote about the way members of minority groups are frequently linked in the popular imagination with prominent fellow members of their group. We asked Channing Kennedy, frequent contributor to Colorlines.com, for a commentary on this phenomenon from the perspective of someone without any immediately obvious minority affiliations. Here’s what he told us: Can A White Guy Represent For His People? : Code Switch

Photo: Hatty Lee / Colorlines

Interesting….

npr: ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 4 Sets PBS Return Date - The Daily Beast “Masterpiece fans will not be disappointed: Julian [Fellowes] has done another brilliant job,” Eaton wrote in an email to The Daily Beast, “this time, portraying the Downton family moving on from the tragedies of last season.” Photo: Nick Briggs/Carnival Film and Television Limited 2013 for MASTERPIECE I’m ready, are you? — tanya b.

npr:

‘Downton Abbey’ Season 4 Sets PBS Return Date - The Daily Beast

“Masterpiece fans will not be disappointed: Julian [Fellowes] has done another brilliant job,” Eaton wrote in an email to The Daily Beast, “this time, portraying the Downton family moving on from the tragedies of last season.”

Photo: Nick Briggs/Carnival Film and Television Limited 2013 for MASTERPIECE

I’m ready, are you? — tanya b.

April 22nd, 2013

Digital Public Library of America

welovepens:

thepinakes:

The DPLA is now real. Go forth and explore.

It’s not very often you get to build a new library. Together, that’s what we will begin to do today.  Starting with over two million items, each with its own special story and significance, the Digital Public Library of America will now begin to assemble the riches of our country’s libraries, archives, and museums, and connect them with the public.

-Dan Cohen, Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America

 

Really really excited about this…

Haven’t checked it out yet but it sounds interesting

April 21st, 2013

wethinkwedream:

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

(Source: salted-pork-knuckles, via causetoknow)

krisngoodthings: oh, hell yeah. beautyisnull: Beauty In Need.

krisngoodthings:

oh, hell yeah.

beautyisnull:

Beauty In Need.

April 9th, 2013

A PATRON ASKS IF A BOOK THEY PUT ON HOLD 10 MINUTES AGO IS READY FOR PICK UP

librarianproblems:

Submitted by Kayla

BWAHAHAHAHA! #RelatingTooHard

A PATRON ASKS FOR A COPY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN READING THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ON AUDIO

librarianproblems:

Submitted by Jessica

LOL! I requests like get this all the time

February 7th, 2013
ourtimeorg: Udacity, a for-profit startup, will soon provide low cost online college courses in California that students can take for credit at some schools. However, these classes are taught by Udacity employees, not professors. Do you agree with this meme? LIKE if you would take these courses online & REBLOG if you think classes should be taught only by accredited professors. For today’s full translation, click here! LOL! Touché Dwight

ourtimeorg:

Udacity, a for-profit startup, will soon provide low cost online college courses in California that students can take for credit at some schools. However, these classes are taught by Udacity employees, not professors. Do you agree with this meme? LIKE if you would take these courses online & REBLOG if you think classes should be taught only by accredited professors.

For today’s full translation, click here!

LOL! Touché Dwight

February 5th, 2013
LOL! Though I don’t have this problem cuz I dont care what people think of my reading, but I can understand. Lots of patrons at the library always whisper book titles to me haha

LOL! Though I don’t have this problem cuz I dont care what people think of my reading, but I can understand. Lots of patrons at the library always whisper book titles to me haha

(Source: facebook.com, via hmhbooks)

January 31st, 2013
theatlantic: City Life Changes How Our Brains Deal With Distractions In an upcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, a group of British psychologists reports that people who live in cities show diminished powers of general attention compared to people from remote areas. With so much going on around them, urbanites don’t pay much attention to surroundings unless they’re highly engaging. Instead, as the researchers put it, city dwellers have developed a form of attention that puts priority on “the search for potential dangers or new opportunities.” Read more. [Image: Shutterstock] Fascinating! Wonder how this factors in with all the ppl thinking they have ADHD?

theatlantic:

City Life Changes How Our Brains Deal With Distractions

In an upcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, a group of British psychologists reports that people who live in cities show diminished powers of general attention compared to people from remote areas. With so much going on around them, urbanites don’t pay much attention to surroundings unless they’re highly engaging.

Instead, as the researchers put it, city dwellers have developed a form of attention that puts priority on “the search for potential dangers or new opportunities.”

Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]

Fascinating!
Wonder how this factors in with all the ppl thinking they have ADHD?

(via npr)