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The Best Books On Ice World

Caspar Henderson | Five Books | 27th August 2018

Conversation with Mark Serreze, director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center. “We are certain to lose more ice, and the effects on society may well be severe. But for a long time there will still be lots of ice on our planet. Even if the rate of warming seen in the last few decades continues unabated, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will stick around for a long time. If they ever completely melted, sea level would be more than 200 feet higher than today. What we are looking at over the coming century is a world with less ice, and we are already well down that path” (3,510 words)

Thieves In The University Library Money

Travis McDade | Atlas Obscura | 24th August 2018

How two men equipped only with maps and razors stole thousands of valuable books and prints from American university libraries. “By the late 1970s the most precious books and manuscripts in American collections had been put behind locked doors. So Kindred, an antique print dealer, was not in the market for a Gutenberg Bible or Shakespeare First Folio. He was interested in the low hanging fruit of the rare book field — 19th-century scientific illustrations, books and journals that were nearly impossible to find for sale, and prohibitively expensive when they could be found” (1,750 words)

The Dark Side Of War Propaganda World

Bradley Anderson | American Conservative | 24th August 2018

Review of an exhibition of propaganda posters from the two world wars. Many interesting points. “Disney Productions devoted more than 90 percent of its output to the war effort between 1942 and 1945. Disney animators and artists created internal training films for the military, propaganda posters, patriotic comic books, and even war bond certificates featuring Disney characters. Mickey Mouse and other such figures became so associated with America’s war effort that they were employed in German and Japanese propaganda as sinister enemy figures” (1,500 words)

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