I guarantee you there's something for everyone in this collection of nearly three dozen links and articles that have caught my eye over the past few weeks. Enjoy!
- The Atlantic: "Sweden: The New Laboratory for a Six-Hour Work Day" by Uri Friedman
- Vanderbilt News: "Novelist to middle schoolers: ‘Read a ton, write every day and find your voice’" by Joan Brasher
- Poynter: "Student newspapers move to mobile as interest in print wanes" by Daniel Reimold
- Huffington Post: "20 Books That Are As Great Today As They Were In The 90s" by Stephen Graham Jones
- The Guardian: "Wealthy stranded in digital dark age as expensive properties lack fast internet" by Juliette Garside
- Smithsonian Magazine: "Ten Ancient Stories and the Geological Events That May Have Inspired Them" by Sarah Zielinski
- Archaeology News Network: "Loggers find 200 year old face carved in tree" by Dean Unger
- The Telegraph: "Staff at £188 million Library of Birmingham unable to reach the books" by Rupert Hawksley
- Unschool Rules: "The ultimate guide to homeschooling and unschooling in Pennsylvania" by Joan Otto
- Isle of Dogs Life: "The Launch of the SS Great Eastern 1858"
- The Atlantic: "This Man Took 445 Photobooth Portraits of Himself Over 30 Years, and Nobody Knows Why" by Megan Garber
- The Wall Street Journal: "The NCAA Took Away My Cat Mug" by Jason Gay
- USA Today: "He's all-Ivy — accepted to all 8 Ivy League colleges" by Greg Toppo
- Curbed: "Abandoned NY Island Has Lighthouse, B&B + Ghostly Rumors" by Hana R. Alberts
- i09: "Black Moon's Insomnia Epidemic Is The Most Unsettling Apocalypse Of All" by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Boston Globe: "Could Sam Sevian become the youngest US chess grandmaster ever?" by Joe DePaolo
- The New York Times: "The Wolf Hunters of Wall Street" by Michael Lewis
- Paranormal People: "Strange Symbols Appearing in UK Are Reminiscent of the Toynbee Tiles" by Martin Clemens
- Retroist: "Remember when Donny Most and Robby Benson Invented the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup?"
- JSOnline: "9 new baseball books worth adding to the 2014 roster" by Chris Foran
- The Washington Post: "Remembering the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, the largest in U.S. history" by Mark Berman
- The Telegraph: "Vatican library plans to digitise 82,000 of its most valuable manuscripts" by Josephine McKenna
- Dallas Reviewed: "1.5 - BARBECUE" by Stacie Ponder
- A.V. Club: "As The Walking Dead gets better, it becomes easier to write off" by Todd VanDerWerff
- McSweeney's: "Fantasy Fantasy Baseball" by Pete Reynolds
- National Geographic: "Spoiler Alert: You Can’t Really Stay at the Real Grand Budapest Hotel (But We Can Tell You Everything About It)" by Angie McPherson
- The Onion: "American Obesity Epidemic Traced To Single Heavyset ‘Mayflower’ Passenger"
- Brain Pickings: "Asylum: Inside the Haunting World of 19th-Century Mental Hospitals" by Maria Popova
- i09: "How We Won the War on Dungeons & Dragons" by Annalee Newitz
- The New York Times: "Literary City, Bookstore Desert: Surging Rents Force Booksellers From Manhattan" by Julie Bosman
- Atlas Obscura: "Stroll through the increasingly abandoned, still lovely streets of Artesia, Mississippi"
- The New York Times: "Beneath Cities, a Decaying Tangle of Gas Pipes" by Patrick McGeehan, Russ Buettner and David W. Chen
- Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience: "Why Google Flu is a failure: the hubris of big data" by Steven Salzberg
- The Washington Post: "Sinkhole of bureaucracy: Deep underground, federal employees process paperwork by hand in a long-outdated, inefficient system" by David A. Fahrenthold
- Book Riot: "The Long Summer of Not-Reading" by Peter Damien
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