January 2011
11 posts
Reasons To Be Cheerful →
Did anything good happen in the last decade? Charles Stross tries to surface a few examples:
The number of people living in poverty and with unsafe water supplies world-wide today is about the same as it was in 1970. Only difference is, there were 3 billion of us back then and today we’re nearer to 7 billion. Upshot: the proportion of us humans on this planet who are living in third...
December 2010
24 posts
Prison Libraries →
Every day, for the almost two years I worked as a staff librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay, the pattern was the same: Seconds after they were released from their units, inmates would not walk, they would run — as though catapulted — towards the prison’s library.
A really interesting look at the impact that prison libraries can have on inmates.
Test Your Insight →
The New York Times has this interesting game where you try to figure out what an object is as it slowly comes into focus, after they show you positive and negative stimuli. I found it pretty amusing that the positive stimuli was the baby-in-watermelon YouTube video - I guess that puts everyone in a good mood.
