Suggested Family Activity • Friday, August 7 Tomorrow is Global Sleep Under the Stars Night. You can celebrate by having a camp out in your own backyard this weekend and taking time to look up at the stars. Gazing up at the night sky can feel very peaceful as you Read more…
The Music We Listen to In Our Teens and Twenties Really Does Stick With Us For Life The music we listen to between the ages of ten and 30 could give us memories that stay with us throughout our lives, according to UK research. Published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Read more…
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.
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…
Who doesn’t read books in America? BY ANDREW PERRIN PEWRESEARCH.ORG Roughly a quarter of U.S. adults (27%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Jan. 8 to Feb. Read more…
One-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks BY ANDREW PERRIN PEWRESEARCH.ORG Americans are spreading their book consumption across several formats, and the use of audiobooks is on the rise. Roughly seven-in-ten U.S. adults (72%) say they have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, a figure that has Read more…
ARGH! Plank walking good phrases for Talk Like a Pirate Day Ye want to celebrate National Talk Like A Pirate Day, eh? Well, grab ye eye patch and gather ’round, maties! Even though we usually wait until January when the pirates invade, it’s time to spit out ye favorite pirate lingo. If Read more…
William McMullin Retirement Ceremony We celebrated William McMullin’s 40+ years of wonderful service to the Northeast Regional Library, Corinth Public Library, and the city of Corinth.