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A futuristic vacation guide to our galaxy for the savvy space traveler
How two space geeks imagine the future of trips to the stars.
Rock climbing on Mars, playing baseball on the moon and skydiving th
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7 years ago
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Was the youngest person executed by Pennsylvania actually innocent?
The O.J. Simpson parole hearing is dominating the non-politcal news, but the legacy of race relations looming large in the criminal justi
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7 years ago
World weather libraries offer historic clues about climate
Whether it’s an especially hot or cold day – or mild or unmemorable one – the weather reports coming through the radio,
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7 years ago
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Delaware’s endangered education species — the school librarian
Fewer and fewer Delaware schools have certified librarian as principals look to put more educators in the classroom.
Every morning
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7 years ago
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Alia Malek challenges us to reimagine Syrian-American
News about Syria stresses geopolitics, so it takes some effort to find an article remidning us that Syria is an actual country with people living there, and dying there.
7 years ago
What can we learn from George Orwell today?
There is much to be learned from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” written in 1949, which has suddenly jumped again
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8 years ago
Novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist first
The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South.
Before novelist Zora Neale
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8 years ago
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Secret to small bookstore success is building community of readers, neighbors
What does it take to create a successful independent bookstore?
For Ellen Trachtenberg, running a good bookstore is a lot like enj
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8 years ago
‘The Zebra Storyteller’ in the Trump era
The recent use of fake news and “alternative facts” has proven that fiction remains a powerful force. The problem, of course,
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8 years ago
Joe Beam’s memory and LGBT racism
It is ironic that the 30th anniversary of “In the Life,
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8 years ago
One Book’s choice of ‘Curious Incident’ spreads incurious view of autism
When I heard that One Book One Philadelphia had chosen
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8 years ago
Jerry Pinkney’s illustrated world, an escape from a nation in conflict
To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.
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