Best Links Found during FEBRUARY 2017 - the "goodies"

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Dante in Translation (ITAL 310) Professor Mazzotta introduces students to the Divine Comedy, focusing on the first four cantos of Inferno. Stylistic, themati...

'Join, or Die' - the Political Cartoon by Benjamin Franklin, from the edited h2g2, the Unconventional Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything

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While “Wild Geese” remains a favorite, I was especially taken with a four-part poem titled “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac,” found in Oliver’s sublime 2014 collection Blue Horses: Poems (public library). It is partly a bow to her recent triumph over cancer, and partly a score to the larger tango of life and death…

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Anthology Editors Speak
14 February @ 3pm
Cork City Library (Grand Parade)
Admission: FREE

"To sin by silence, when we should protest makes cowards out of men."

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination..."

President Trump’s strategic adviser is elevating a once-obscure network of political thinkers.

Each snowflake may not be so unique after all.

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There's an unlikely new battlefield in the already divided American public sphere: the defense of proper spelling. The US Department of Education stepped into the minefield this weekend with two typo-ridden tweets, one meant to correct the other. The original: https://twitter.com/AliceOllstein/status/830794143232253952 https://twitter.com/CorbinReiff/status/830830122810892289 The tweets hit a nerve with critics who argue that new US education secretary Betsy DeVos is unqualified for the job....

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New York Times poetry critic David Orr is like the smart, provocative guy who is invited to every dinner party because he’s so insightful and makes people laugh.

Black-and-white film shows man who could be French writer at wedding of daughter of one of Proust’s close friends, says Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan

And today Bill Gates proposed that governments start taxing robot workers the same way we tax human workers: In 2013, policy makers largely ignored two Oxford economists who suggested that 45% of all…

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If you see the F-word spelled out with all four letters, are you more offended than when you read F with asterisks? And if so, why?