Tune In to a Virtual Concert This Summer a roundup from School Library Journal Summer is the season when music lovers usually head to festivals and outdoor concerts to enjoy live entertainment from their favorite artists and orchestras. With concert halls shuttered and performance stages closed due to the ongoing Read more
See and Hear the Human Brain in a Way You’ve Never Experienced It Before! The video pairs the hi-res imagery of more than 100 hours of MRI scans with an excerpt from the album Chapel by the US electronic musician and music-cognition researcher Grace Leslie, in which she converts her Read more
What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? A dive into the deep sea.
From Plague Doctor to PPE: A Brief History of Pandemic Protection Gear with Bernadette Banner, famous YouTuber and garment historian!
BLM Virtual “Reading Room” is a gorgeously made educational room with links to educational videos, read alouds, and more! (Note: Despite all our digging, we can’t figure out who made this and shared it with the public, nor can anyone else we follow. When we find out, we’ll let you Read more
Suggested Family Activity • Thursday, August 6 Today is both National Root Beer Float Day and National Wiggle Your Toes Day so celebrate them both by wiggling your toes while you enjoy a nice, cold root beer float. To make a root beer float at home: Put a scoop of Read more
A Secret Elvis Presley Property Has Surfaced in Mississippi—and It’s for Sale He was “the King” of rock ‘n’ roll, but Elvis Presley also loved land. The late legend’s prized mansion, Graceland, sits on over 13 acres of land in Memphis, TN. Living surrounded by nature was his reprieve from a life Read more
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Since it was first detected in Wuhan, China in December, COVID-19 (commonly referred to as simply “coronavirus”) has spread to other countries, including the United States. Cases of the virus have been reported across the country, with some areas declaring a state of emergency. As such, it’s Read more
Hear Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in Original 14th-Century English One of the many reasons Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is considered a groundbreaking collection of stories is because he chose to write it not in a highbrow language like Latin or French, but in the common tongue of the Read more
On the Heartbreaking Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books Summer Brennan Attempts Marie Kondo’s Approach to Tidying Up Her Library Like a lot of avid readers, I enjoyed Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up but bristled when it came to the section about books. The gist of her now-famous method Read more