Free Thing of the Week: Gog and Magog
For your summer reading, The Star brings you a free new epub of Ciaran O’Driscoll’s chapbook, Gog and Magog to make you feel the verse.
Diversity Helps Us All
It’s still possible to seek diversity, even for white guys in corporate America. Jack Botam writes.
Mirror Websites Are Helping Turkish Users Reconnect to Wikipedia
Arzu Geybullayeva reports on the ways to get around the Turkish blackout of Wikipedia.
How Drug Courts Are Falling Short
In the drug war, drug courts offer just another example of failure of criminal industrial complex. Christine Mehta writes.
What Japanese Internment Taught Us About Standing Up for Our Neighbors
Community means looking out for all neighbors and members, not just those who look like you. Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz writes.
How participatory budgeting can transform community engagement – An interview with Amir Campos
Can the public really have a say in how money is spent in their cities? Amir Campos thinks so in this interview with Diana Krebs.
Sunday Comics
Roll out that special head/This is our favorite one/Please don’t try to read/Don’t read the Sunday Comics
Free Thing of the Week: Japanese Wood Prints from the LOC
The Library of Congress has digitized and released 2,500 Japanese wood block prints into the public domain, just for you. We give you a taste.
Harris Fellows to Help Us Shine a Light on What Works in Cities
Can technology help civic decision making? Ed Finkel says yes in this exploration of what works in open data.
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