Month: June 2018
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Driving US Route 50: The Loneliest Road Trip
The stark landscape along US 50 is the origin of its famed solitude, but it has given rise to some of the best recreational activities Nevada has to offer.
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One-Week Nevada Road Trip Itinerary
This Nevada road trip from the Biggest Little City in the World to the Alps of Nevada is a real slice of Americana. You’ll experience the Code of the West as it’s lived by cattlemen, shepherds, and farmers.
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Ann Leckie’s PROVENANCE, read by Adjoa Andoh, Wins 2018 Audie Award for Science Fiction Audiobook
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HBG Big News This Week: May 28-June 1, 2018
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Ibram Kendi, author of STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, talks to Gayle Allen on Curious Minds
Innovators often invent the future and some do so by rethinking the past. For example, innovative historical researchers not only help us understand what happened yesterday, they improve how we respond to those issues today.
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Colorlines favorite quotes from Darnell Moore’s memoir NO ASHES IN THE FIRE.
The activist and journalist's debut memoir, “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America," just dropped. Revel in its radical honesty and beauty.
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Jessica Weisberg’s ASKING FOR A FRIEND gets reviewed by the New York Times
Weisberg finds no correlation between an advice-giver’s authority and his or her popularity, which has helped me reconcile my bewilderment that the instructions for hard-boiling an egg on Gwyneth Paltrow’s website Goop yield an egg of a perfection that had eluded me for decades. Nobody died and made Paltrow the egg boss, yet I can’t…
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Little Brown Faculty Lounge: Young Adult Section
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TO END A PRESIDENCY author Laurence Tribe interviewed on MSNBC’s Weekends with Alex Witt
Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe explains to Alex Witt why the memo reported in the New York Times from President Trump’s legal team to Robert Mueller “has the law all wrong.” Tribe also discusses impeachment and his new book, “To End a Presidency.”
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A GIRL STANDS AT THE DOOR author Rachel Devlin interviewed in the Atlantic
Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie’s THE BOOK OF WHY reviewed in the New York Times
“Illuminating… The Professor Pearl who emerges from the pages of The Book of Why brims with the joy of discovery and pride in his students and colleagues… [it] not only delivers a valuable lesson on the history of ideas but provides the conceptual tools needed to judge just what big data can and cannot deliver.”
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