Public Libraries Are Not Free – So Let’s Quit Saying They Are

“It’s well-intentioned to emphasize that libraries provide materials and services without exacting immediate payment from users for each transaction. But today it is at best a mistake and at worst self-destructive to underrepresent the considerable ongoing investment that the members of a community make to have library collections, technology, personnel, and facilities available to them.”

‘The Houdini Of History’ – Vladimir Nabokov, Escape Artist

“In 1919, he and his immediate family fled revolutionary Russia on the last ship out of Sevastopol, a vessel aptly named Nadezhda(‘Hope’). In 1937 he escaped Hitler’s Germany by fleeing to France, and in 1940, just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis, he boarded a French ocean liner’s last voyage to New York with his Jewish wife and son.”

A Passionate Scientific Split That Was To Play Out In Public: Denied

“The tone of the dustup between Mr. Albert and Mr. Krauss — summed up by one blogger as ‘an ongoing cosmological street fight’ that had broken out ‘broad media daylight’ — would have certainly left those who saw both men’s names on early publicity material anticipating something closer to a wrestling match than dispassionate scholarly discussion.”

‘Brain Porn’ In The Media

“When writing about anything pertaining to psychology or human nature, people love nothing more than a brain image lit up like a Christmas tree. These omnipresent images have been mockingly termed ‘brain porn’, defined by journalist Alissa Quart as a ‘willingness to accept seemingly neuroscientific explanations for nearly everything'” – especially when it comes to mental health problems such as addiction and depression.