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Does science have a bullying problem?
Monday, August 12th, 2019Ever more countries are banning plastic bags – Daily chart
Sunday, August 11th, 2019There Was No Gunfire in Times Square. But the Panic Was Still Real. – The New York Times
Sunday, August 11th, 2019pp | Definition of pp in English by Oxford Dictionaries
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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pp
The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper
Sunday, August 11th, 2019QT:{{”
“But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce: the research library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new. As beautiful as those libraries appear—and I, too, find myself unconsciously responding to such surroundings, having grown up studying in them—we should beware the peril of books as glorified wallpaper. The value of books, after all, is what lies beneath their covers, as lovely as those covers may be.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/college-students-arent-checking-out-books/590305/