10 Unusual Libraries From Around the World appears on the Mental Floss website and is by Lorna Wallace. Tianjin Binhai Library, China. / TPG/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images "In the words of Stephen King, “books are a uniquely portable magic.” They have to be...
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ATG Quirkies: How Public Libraries Are Seeding America’s Gardens
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The Bug in the Computer Bug Story appears in JSTOR Daily and is by Matthew Wills who has published in Poetry, Huffington Post, and Nature Conservancy Magazine, among other places, and blogs regularly about urban natural history at matthewwills.com. The First Computer...
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