Britain's Royal Society announced its shortlist of titles for the best science book of the past year. (See the details here.) Previous winners of the £10,000 prize include Bill Bryson, Stephen Hawking and the eminent string theorist Brian Greene (author of the bestseller The Fabric of the Cosmos).I mention this because a) one of the … Continue reading You Heard It Here First
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Just in time for the tail end of National Poetry Month, there's a new poem by William Shakespeare. OK, so it's not newly written, of course; in fact it was discovered about 30 years ago. But it was left out of the most recent editions of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. So it's new … Continue reading Yet More Complete
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Public libraries in Minnesota--both Minneapolis and Owatonna--figure prominently in a recent newswire story on the growing foreign language collections (by the AP, via Forbes).
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