Month: August 2017
BREAKING: Millions Set To Keep Healthcare After All As Vote To Repeal ACA Fails
Forget politics. Independent analyses of both the House version and the Senate version of the GOP's replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) better known as Obamacare would have been a disaster for America. Anything that takes away healthcare from 22 million Americans, many of which are the poorest, sickest, oldest, and youngest members of […]
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still fit for purpose? The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims. The […]
Before Amazon, We Had Bookmobiles: 15+ Rare Photos Of Libraries-On-Wheels
Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, bookmobiles were bringing literature to peoples’ doorsteps. Their mission was to provide the written word to remote villages and city suburbs that had no libraries. We invite you to remember these almost forgotten four-wheelers of the past. The first bookmobile is believed to have appeared in […]
The World’s Most Beautiful Library Is In Prague, Czech Republic
The Klementinum library, a beautiful example of Baroque architecture, was first opened in 1722 as part of the Jesuit university, and houses over 20,000 books. It was voted as one of the most beautiful and majestic libraries in the world by our readers! The ceiling frescoes were painted by Jan Hiebl. In 1781, director Karel Rafael Ungar […]
This is the most dangerous time for our planet | Stephen Hawking
We can’t go on ignoring inequality, because we have the means to destroy our world but not to escape it. As a theoretical physicist based in Cambridge, I have lived my life in an extraordinarily privileged bubble. Cambridge is an unusual town, centred around one of the world’s great universities. Within that town, the scientific […]