Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Daytime session at Sherigu Community Library
- La deuxième journée des activités de café littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Échanges avec la nouvelle gérante de la bibliothèque de Koho
- Reprise des activités de la bibliothèque mobile Pénélope
- Sortie de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse
- Bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux de la lecture à Niankorodougou
- Bibliothèque communautaire de Zimtenga ! Les livres attendent patiemment le retour des communautés
- Bilan des activités du mois d’août de la bibliothèque de Bougounam
- Bilan des premières journées du café littéraire
- Nyariga community library, daytime activities
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Leisure reading from 2016 that I forgot to write about
Golden Sun and Gold Rising by Pierce Brown. Leslie picked these up at the library. Brown has mastered the genre. Excellent writing and especially dialogue. Lots of intriguing ideas. The whole thing has been carefully “lifted” from the best of … Continue reading
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Light science fiction reading
Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading short stories and novellas collected in the annual anthology by Gardner Dozois (for 2013 and 1995). Here’s a few recommendations: 2013 Indraparamit Das, “Weep for a Day” A really nice “classical” tale … Continue reading
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Nice reporting from 2016 on koglweogo, the informal militias popping up in Burkina Faso
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Are you joking here New York Times? So what if it is James Heckman… the sample size is 37!
When the boys reached age 30, they earned an average of $19,800 more a year than those in the control group and had half a year more education. (The small sample size — 37 boys in the programs who stayed … Continue reading
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Trump’s “America First” rhetoric? William Wyler had it pegged back in 1946.
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For everyone who served on a committee that had to write a report
Bottom line? I express as gender female at the university. Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability Linda Babcock, Maria P. Recalde, Lise Vesterlund and Laurie Weingart Gender differences in task allocations may sustain vertical … Continue reading
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Maybe you studied abroad in Spain? Then you should watch El fin de ETA!
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Economic justice and basic income
Last week at our student economics discussion group we had a nice exchange about universal basic income. I suggested that wouldn’t everyone (right, left, libertarian and socialist) agree that in a wealthy society few would object to a program of … Continue reading
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Gregory Mankiw, tax reform, and the carbon tax
Republicans are proposing and are excited about the possibilities for a huge overhaul of the U.S. tax system. Here is Mankiw, probably the most prominent and well-respected Republican economist in the US, in January: Consider the following tax reform: 1. … Continue reading
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I guess Trump team is consistent about one thing: They really would rather have coal than advanced 21st century batteries
James J. Greenberger, the executive director of NAATBatt International, a trade group for the advanced battery industry, said ARPA-E had been of enormous benefit to the industry. “We’re absolutely stunned by it,” Mr. Greenberger said of the agency’s potential elimination, … Continue reading
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Great trenchant essay on reading from Hisham Matar
Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don’t, in one form or another, already possess. “Every reader,” as Marcel Proust writes in “Time Regained,” “is actually the reader of himself.” Books can’t install unknown feelings or … Continue reading
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Can students record me in class?
Turns out in many states there is only a “single party consent” needed to record a conversation, and so students could record me in class. They are limited in what they can do, since the cannot “sell” my intellectual property. … Continue reading
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Awe-inspiring study from Ancestry.com
People moved east to west, less so north to south. See how the differently colored clusters form distinct horizontal bands? The red, blue, purple, and green dots fan out from right to left. This pattern means DNA confirms the descendants … Continue reading
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Leading a non-profit that supports village libraries is a lot of work!
I like to share parts of my life with you, readers, but mostly I write to share stuff with my future self. As you may know, I started back in 2001 and continue to direct a small non-profit Friends of … Continue reading
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Growing incidents and threats of jihadist violence in northern Burkina Faso
FAVL-supported libraries in several provinces in northern Burkina Faso have had to close as the security situation has deteriorated. À cet effet, dans les provinces martyres de Soum et de l’Oudalan, la mesure semble quelque peu radicale : « La … Continue reading
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Noujain Mustaffa is the right drop of bittersweet sunshine for a cloudy day
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If you want to know what racially motivated terrorism looks like in the United States
The episode occurred in the summer of 2015, when Ms. Norton, Mr. Torres and other members of a group called Respect the Flag drove around Paulding and another county, flying the Confederate flag, pointing guns at black residents and threatening … Continue reading
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First Amendment Experts React to White House Press Briefing Ban, from Just Security
The actions on Friday restricting certain news organizations from a briefing by the White House Press Secretary raise significant concerns. The D.C. Circuit almost forty years ago held in no uncertain terms that access to White House press facilities cannot … Continue reading
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I loved this piece when I was 20, I still have the 7″ by Les Disques du Crepuscule: “In re don Giovanni” by Michael Nyman
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Solid Africa political overview from Steven Feldstein
Africa often brings policy surprises. Two of the most significant political moments in Africa—the street demonstrations that toppled Compaoré in Burkina Faso, and the surprisingly free and fair elections in The Gambia that ended Jammeh’s rule—were wholly unanticipated. Smart and … Continue reading
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