Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis"
bbc.com·3w·
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🔍Media Literacy
Why Canada is ill-equipped to tackle the growing threat of fake science
canadianaffairs.news·2w
🔬Research Translation
A study across 36 European nations finds that while higher education boosts well-being up to a point, in the wealthiest countries that advantage fades.
nature.com·3w
🌐Societal Impacts of Technology
Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side
thetyee.ca·2d
🏡Community Land Trusts
What Is Higher Education For?
thelocal.to·1w
🌱Regenerative Journalism
What ails liberal democracy? Its defenders are myopic, parochial, and naive — and need of a strong dose of realism
democracyjournal.org·1w·
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🤝Media Cooperatives
Death of Memory Is the Death of Democracy
znetwork.org·2w
📢Tactical Media
‘Parents’ rights’ groups gain ground in Canada amid Alberta book ban
theguardian.com·2w
🏪Canadian Independent Bookstores
Who Is Mark Carney, Really?
thewalrus.ca·2w
🎒Canadian Backpacking
The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey
cell.com·3w·
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📝Text-Only Web
Robin D. G. Kelley: “The myth of the liberal university, of the transcendent intellectual, of the power of reason shatters at once”
bostonreview.net·1w
🌱Regenerative Journalism
Solution Spillover: Pairing Issues with Ideological Solutions Fuels Polarization
pnas.org·2w
👥Grassroots Science
Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Cundill History Prize.
lithub.com·2w
🌱Regenerative Journalism
College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened
theconversation.com·3w
🔍Media Literacy
Try as They Might, Conservatives Will Have Trouble Escaping Trump
thewalrus.ca·5d
🎒Canadian Backpacking
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
arstechnica.com·3d·
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🔍Media Literacy
Airstrikes, banditry, drones and a ban on girls’ education: four teachers on educating students amid conflict
theguardian.com·8h
🌿Regenerative Media
Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable
vox.com·1w·
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🎌Non-Western Web Culture
Speculative Fiction: A Reading List
daily.jstor.org·6d
🌀Genre Blending
We need a new theory of democracy – because this version has failed
salon.com·3w·
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🕸️Digital Folklore