“My life has totally changed. Now I am earning money from the
Internet and I come to know a lot of new things. Internet is really
amazing.”
- Male, from Madurai, India, ...
[http://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/10/universities-consider-campus-carry-gun-free-classr/]
The thousands of professors who attend the Modern Language
Association's annual...
In other news, Mensah Demary interviews Elisa Gabbert for The Rumpus.
Although their discussion has been in the works for “a year now,”
according to Demary, the finished p...
The way we think about diets is undergoing an important shift.
The word "diet" is no longer synonymous with deprivation and rapid
weight-loss. Rather, the best diets of toda...
“This is the way it was done, the way we always do it, the way it
should be done,” says Hadassah, a soft-spoken 28 year old Chassidic
woman from Borough Park. Why does she...
Yang Champions Diversity in All Forms and Reading for Non-Readers with
his Platform, “Reading Without Walls” New York, NY, January 4,
2016—The Children’s Book Council ...
Library of Congress names award-winning graphic novelist to promote
youth literacy.
This is so cool. The Library of Congress has named Gene Luen Yang the
National Ambassador ...
From: ...The Evolution of Patient-centred Medical Decision-making
[http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/855258].
Evidence-Based Medicine (ISSN: 1356-5524, 1473-6810) December...
December 29 was the 125th anniversary of the slaughter of hundreds of
defenseless Native People - men, women, and children - at Wounded Knee
on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1...
This is the second part of my previous blog post, Looking Back on the
Year
[http://www.themilelongbookshelf.com/2015/12/looking-back-on-2015-part-one.html].
Hope you enjoy!
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This review article provides a critical discussion of empirical
studies that deal with the use of online news sources in journalism.
We evaluate how online sources have change...