DrWeb's Domain http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/ :all things library, and life: function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); } en-US 2013-06-19T05:54:24-07:00 32.998855-117.07054This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Humanities Committee Sounds an Alarm - NYTimes.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/oUl-VDrAXb8/humanities-committee-sounds-an-alarm-nytimescom.html The report comes amid concern about low humanities enrollments and worries that the Obama administration’s emphasis on science education risks diminishing a huge source of the nation’s intellectual strength. Requested by a bipartisan group of legislators and scheduled to be distributed to every member of Congress, it is intended as a rallying cry against the entrenched idea that the humanities and social sciences are luxuries that employment-minded students can ill afford. via www.nytimes.com The report comes amid concern about low humanities enrollments and worries that the Obama administration’s emphasis on science education risks diminishing a huge source of the nation’s intellectual strength. Requested by a bipartisan group of legislators and scheduled to be distributed to every member of Congress, it is intended as a rallying cry against the entrenched idea that the humanities and social sciences are luxuries that employment-minded students can ill afford.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-19T05:54:24-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/humanities-committee-sounds-an-alarm-nytimescom.html How To Move a Library in 38 Days - San Diego Magazine - July 2013 - San Diego, California http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/MLo7otObHeU/how-to-move-a-library-in-38-days-san-diego-magazine-july-2013-san-diego-california.html via www.sandiegomagazine.com #sandiego

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-18T16:41:49-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/how-to-move-a-library-in-38-days-san-diego-magazine-july-2013-san-diego-california.html Joan H. Parker, 80, Mystery Writer’s Muse, Dies - NYTimes.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/p9raV225xHQ/joan-h-parker-80-mystery-writers-muse-dies-nytimescom.html Joan H. Parker, the widow of the mystery writer Robert B. Parker and the inspiration for one of his most independent heroines, died on Wednesday in Boston. She was 80. via www.nytimes.com Joan H. Parker, the widow of the mystery writer Robert B. Parker and the inspiration for one of his most independent heroines, died on Wednesday in Boston. She was 80.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-18T13:12:00-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/joan-h-parker-80-mystery-writers-muse-dies-nytimescom.html New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book | Gadget Lab | Wired.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/E6JohZMnIAs/new-drm-will-change-the-words-in-your-e-book-gadget-lab-wiredcom.html New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book | Gadget Lab | Wired.com New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-18T05:58:37-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/20-mesmerising-modern-libraries-from-around-the-world.html Mickelson deserves some U.S. Open love Page 1 of 2 | UTSanDiego.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/2ypVZ93DNs0/mickelson-deserves-some-us-open-love-page-1-of-2-utsandiegocom.html via www.utsandiego.com #usopen #justdoitphil

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-16T08:28:18-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/mickelson-deserves-some-us-open-love-page-1-of-2-utsandiegocom.html Loon project brings the web to billions - Technology - NZ Herald News http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/mtf53cAkDn0/loon-project-brings-the-web-to-billions-technology-nz-herald-news.html New Zealand has reached for the sky, backing Google's extraordinary plan to encircle the Earth with helium-filled balloons beaming internet access to billions. via www.nzherald.co.nz New Zealand has reached for the sky, backing Google's extraordinary plan to encircle the Earth with helium-filled balloons beaming internet access to billions.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-15T20:49:29-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/loon-project-brings-the-web-to-billions-technology-nz-herald-news.html Stephen King's new 'Joyland' mixes chills with amusement park thrills - latimes.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/5uD_AfcshR0/stephen-kings-new-joyland-mixes-chills-with-amusement-park-thrills-latimescom.html I think of the crazed fan Annie Wilkes in "Misery," whose pathology — her evil, if you will — is the flip side of her desire. Or that quartet of friends in "The Body," walking along the railroad tracks in search of a dead boy, discovering the enigma of the world. There's a human element even to the oddest moments, which grounds these stories and gives them weight. When horror ensues, it comes out of a terrain we recognize, which makes it all the more horrible and true. via www.latimes.com I think of the crazed fan Annie Wilkes in "Misery," whose pathology — her evil, if you will — is the flip side of her desire. Or that quartet of friends in "The Body," walking along the railroad tracks in search of a dead boy, discovering the enigma of the world. There's a human element even to the oddest moments, which grounds these stories and gives them weight. When horror ensues, it comes out of a terrain we recognize, which makes it all the more horrible and true.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-15T20:18:38-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/stephen-kings-new-joyland-mixes-chills-with-amusement-park-thrills-latimescom.html Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers - Salon.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/E0XvSk2lX7U/study-reading-novels-makes-us-better-thinkers-saloncom.html “Furthermore,” they add, “while reading, the reader can stimulate the thinking styles even of people he or she might personally dislike. One can think along and even feel along with Humbert Humbert in Lolita, no matter how offensive one finds this character. This double release—of thinking through events without concerns for urgency and permanence, and thinking in ways that are different than one’s own—may produce effects of opening the mind.” via www.salon.com

“Furthermore,” they add, “while reading, the reader can stimulate the thinking styles even of people he or she might personally dislike. One can think along and even feel along with Humbert Humbert in Lolita, no matter how offensive one finds this character. This double release—of thinking through events without concerns for urgency and permanence, and thinking in ways that are different than one’s own—may produce effects of opening the mind.”

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-15T08:30:58-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/study-reading-novels-makes-us-better-thinkers-saloncom.html Dollar store deals: The do's and don'ts | Marketplace.org http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/4ynDk3qjNHk/dollar-store-deals-the-dos-and-donts-marketplaceorg.html via www.marketplace.org Admit it, you shop here for bargains...

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-15T08:17:50-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/dollar-store-deals-the-dos-and-donts-marketplaceorg.html Trust Me, Assigning Summer Reading Is Totally Pointless - Alexander Nazaryan - The Atlantic Wire http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/3PPS4ivkax0/trust-me-assigning-summer-reading-is-totally-pointless-alexander-nazaryan-the-atlantic-wire.html I am all for torturing children. As the overlord of a 9th grade classroom, I forced them to memorize sections of The Aeneid, socked them with the one-two punch of The Odyssey and The Iliad and finished them off on a Shakespearian rack. Let them suffer, I say, as they try to parse the difference between iambic pentameter and trochaic tetrameter; let them sweat through psychoanalytic readings of Oedipus Rex. via www.theatlanticwire.com I am all for torturing children. As the overlord of a 9th grade classroom, I forced them to memorize sections of The Aeneid, socked them with the one-two punch of The Odyssey and The Iliad and finished them off on a Shakespearian rack. Let them suffer, I say, as they try to parse the difference between iambic pentameter and trochaic tetrameter; let them sweat through psychoanalytic readings of Oedipus Rex.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-15T08:12:01-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/trust-me-assigning-summer-reading-is-totally-pointless-alexander-nazaryan-the-atlantic-wire.html Where Is Everyone? Try a Tracking App - NYTimes.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/XR8Kjw7c-Do/where-is-everyone-try-a-tracking-app-nytimescom.html Today it’s easier than ever to find out, thanks to the proliferation of GPS-enabled smartphones and a steady stream of free or affordably priced apps. The number of active users of “family locator services” (smartphones with GPS and personal location devices) in North America and Europe is expected to reach 70 million in 2016, up from 16 million in 2011, according to a new report from Berg Insight, a research firm based in Sweden. via travel.nytimes.com Today it’s easier than ever to find out, thanks to the proliferation of GPS-enabled smartphones and a steady stream of free or affordably priced apps. The number of active users of “family locator services” (smartphones with GPS and personal location devices) in North America and Europe is expected to reach 70 million in 2016, up from 16 million in 2011, according to a new report from Berg Insight, a research firm based in Sweden.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-15T08:04:08-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/where-is-everyone-try-a-tracking-app-nytimescom.html Letters from Dad | TIME.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/xIZQe5CRzzg/letters-from-dad-timecom.html To celebrate Father’s Day, TIME teamed up with Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg’s women’s empowerment foundation, to ask famous dads to write open letters to their daughters. The responses were equal parts heartwarming (Aaron Sorkin: “Once I saw you sit down next to a kid who was eating lunch all alone—always be that person”) and hilarious (Tom Brokaw: “Sarah, we’ll always have that New Year’s eve where I encountered your boyfriend walking through our house, drinking my precious magnum of Dom Perignon straight from the bottle”). Below, personal messages from Marco Rubio, Mario Lopez, Rahm Emanuel and more. via ideas.time.com To celebrate Father’s Day, TIME teamed up with Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg’s women’s empowerment foundation, to ask famous dads to write open letters to their daughters. The responses were equal parts heartwarming (Aaron Sorkin: “Once I saw you sit down next to a kid who was eating lunch all alone—always be that person”) and hilarious (Tom Brokaw: “Sarah, we’ll always have that New Year’s eve where I encountered your boyfriend walking through our house, drinking my precious magnum of Dom Perignon straight from the bottle”). Below, personal messages from Marco Rubio, Mario Lopez, Rahm Emanuel and more.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-15T07:10:47-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/letters-from-dad-timecom.html Checking out the future: Libraries look beyond the shelves - Evanston Review http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/4FphXVxLDhQ/checking-out-the-future-libraries-look-beyond-the-shelves-evanston-review.html Updated: June 14, 2013 8:28AM via evanston.suntimes.com Updated: June 14, 2013 8:28AM

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-14T21:44:13-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/checking-out-the-future-libraries-look-beyond-the-shelves-evanston-review.html Radio Romance Tour 2013 | Tickets | A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor | American Public Media http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/QrDz9aKBb4M/radio-romance-tour-2013-tickets-a-prairie-home-companion-with-garrison-keillor-american-public-media.html via prairiehome.publicradio.org

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-14T17:17:33-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/radio-romance-tour-2013-tickets-a-prairie-home-companion-with-garrison-keillor-american-public-media.html Religion and Inequality - NYTimes.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/QoosiIOAAbQ/religion-and-inequality-nytimescom.html His father explained that he thought his son might one day go on to become a fine doctor, but he had also seen loose tendencies. Some hard manual labor during college would straighten him out. via www.nytimes.com His father explained that he thought his son might one day go on to become a fine doctor, but he had also seen loose tendencies. Some hard manual labor during college would straighten him out.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-14T15:37:21-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/religion-and-inequality-nytimescom.html Today in History: June 14 | Flag Day USA http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/Zd4BlFh7hTM/today-in-history-june-14-flag-day-usa.html via memory.loc.gov

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-14T09:14:49-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/today-in-history-june-14-flag-day-usa.html James Joyce's 'last undiscovered' collection to be published | guardian.co.uk http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/g9sdpgJQeco/james-joyces-last-undiscovered-collection-to-be-published-guardiancouk.html A small Irish press is publishing what it is calling "almost certainly the last undiscovered title by James Joyce" – 10 short pieces by the author, written six months after he completed Ulysses – igniting a row over the author's intentions. via www.guardian.co.uk A small Irish press is publishing what it is calling "almost certainly the last undiscovered title by James Joyce" – 10 short pieces by the author, written six months after he completed Ulysses – igniting a row over the author's intentions.

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]]> DrWeb 2013-06-14T09:12:00-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/james-joyces-last-undiscovered-collection-to-be-published-guardiancouk.html Library Services | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/xr9VnAyUxBQ/library-services-scripps-institution-of-oceanography-uc-san-diego.html Library Services | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Such a shame, the Scripps Library closing.. some services remain, however... Library Services | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Such a shame, the Scripps Library closing.. some services remain, however...

]]> DrWeb 2013-06-14T09:07:40-07:00 http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2013/06/library-services-scripps-institution-of-oceanography-uc-san-diego.html Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation - Christine Folch - The Atlantic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/_1kRj5YLLf0/why-the-west-loves-sci-fi-and-fantasy-a-cultural-explanation-christine-folch-the-atlantic.html Hollywood's had a long love affair with sci-fi and fantasy, but the romance has never been stronger than it is today. A quick glance into bookstores, television lineups, and upcoming films shows that the futuristic and fantastical is everywhere in American pop culture. In fact, of Hollywood's top earners since 1980, a mere eight have not featured wizardry, space or time travel, or apocalyptic destruction caused by aliens/zombies/Robert Downey Jr.'s acerbic wit. Now, with Man of Steel, it appears we will at last have an effective reboot of the most important superhero story of them all. via www.theatlantic.com Hollywood's had a long love affair with sci-fi and fantasy, but the romance has never been stronger than it is today. A quick glance into bookstores, television lineups, and upcoming films shows that the futuristic and fantastical is everywhere in American pop culture. In fact, of Hollywood's top earners since 1980, a mere eight have not featured wizardry, space or time travel, or apocalyptic destruction caused by aliens/zombies/Robert Downey Jr.'s acerbic wit. Now, with Man of Steel, it appears we will at last have an effective reboot of the most important superhero story of them all.

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