Post Offices, Prep Schools, and Poetry
Our Friday Reads are these five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Brexit, Magic, and Aging Monkeys
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Quantifying Rape
Rape has costs beyond the physical and emotional: Emergency room visits, therapy, rehab, wasted tuition, lost wages, and lifestyle changes expensive.
Video Games, Italian Revolutionaries, and Anne Tyler
Our Friday Reads are these new books out this week, and related content you won't find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Happiness and Parenting, Racism and Medicine, Fox News and the GOP
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Tig Notaro, Annie Proulx, and More
Our Friday Reads rounds up five new books out this week, and links to related content you won't find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Bees, Brains, and Bad Science
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Friday Reads in the Digital Library
Here is your Friday Five: Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won't find anywhere else. Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi’s firs
Suggested Readings: Secrets, Pain, and Brains in Vats
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Avoiding Autoimmune Diseases
Avoiding autoimmune disease may depend on your social class and the ecosystems you’re exposed to.
Walt Whitman: (Happy Birthday) Song of Himself
Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman, you old bard and…politician. Clearly you like to sing to yourself, but let us join ...
Suggested Readings: Evidence for Police Work, Nanotech for Agriculture, Categories for Thinking
Our suggested readings of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings: Drug Resistance, Dating, and Denim
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Child’s Play
Play is an important part of child development; Paul Tough tells us about strategies to encourage healthy child development.
A Telephone Conversation with Malcolm X
This 1965 telephone conversation between Malcolm X and meeting organizers in Paris took place just weeks before his assassination.
Suggested Readings: Clever Fish, Clever Babies, Not-So-Clever University Policies
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Netflix and Chill
"Netflix and chill" is just the latest trend in 100+ years of changing courtship rituals.
A Vintage Op-Ed from Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders' February 2003: "On My Mind: The Patriot Act's Threat to Libraries" published in American Libraries.
Suggested Readings: Brain Maps, Water Dangers, and Rejecting Self-Esteem
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. Brought to you each Tuesday from the editors of JSTO
Anxiety and Treatment
Anxiety is on the rise in the general populace, says Will Hutton in this weekend’s Guardian.
Jane Jacobs and the American City
Jane Jacobs, who would have been 100 today and is the focus of the Google Doodle , was a big part of why cities like New York City and Toronto look and feel
Suggested Readings: Curing Fear, Hugging Dogs, and Teaching While Conservative
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...