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Bulletin Board Bestselling author (and Sioux Falls native) Sam Kean will discuss his latest book, The Violinist’s Thumb at the Main Branch of Siouxland Libraries from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Bibliocide (“Although they went through various editions, encyclopædias belong to a time when knowledge was owned by a […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Godless yet good (“After 20 years of living in the US (I was born in Canada), I still tend to forget how many people here assume, simply as a matter of common sense, that the very idea of ‘secular ethics’ is an abomination, a contradiction, or both.”) What […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us (“When we debate health care policy, we seem to jump right to the issue of who should pay the bills, blowing past what should be the first question: Why exactly are the bills so high?”) [Long but worth the time] Bookish […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed? (“You might wonder what Andre was thinking when he removed the children’s hearts and placed them in his pockets to take home”) Bookish Linkage Ten things that happen to your mind when you read (via) What is a book snob? […] Bulletin Board The South Dakota Humanities council and Siouxland Libraries were selected for Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. Developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, the program seeks to introduce the American public to the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around […] |
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