- ‘The world needs books’: Watch the world’s most adorable 8-year-old reading ambassador http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/11/26/the-world-needs-books-watch-the-worlds-most-adorable-8-year-old-literary-ambassador/ 16 comments books
- 13 year old Pakistani girl makes it her mission to a read a book from every country in the world http://lithub.com/meet-the-13-year-old-pakistani-girl-on-a-mission-to-read-the-world/ 21 comments books
- One Year Reading a Book from Every Nation in the World | Publishing Perspectives http://publishingperspectives.com/2013/09/one-year-reading-a-book-from-every-nation-in-the-world/ 3 comments books
- The 10 Most Read Books In The World over the last 50 years http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/50dc6d9669beddda7700000d-620-620/most-read-books.jpg 42 comments books
- Netropolitan | The World's Most Exclusive Online Community. $9,000 to join, $3,000 a year after that. Just to read what people have to say online. http://netropolitan.info/ 6 comments technology
- 19-year-old striker Danny Loader, u17 World Cup winner with England, choosing between contract offers from FC Porto and Sporting CP after expiry of his contract at Reading https://twitter.com/SkyFootball/status/1292759355209781248 21 comments soccer
- I am a 40 year old man, and I cried when I read this and almost wanted to throw up. I can't believe there are people like this in this world. http://www.cnn.com/2011/crime/01/18/colorado.mother.charged/index.html?hpt=t2 4 comments reddit.com
- I am a 39 year old man, and I cried when I read this and almost wanted to throw up. I can't believe there are people like this in this world. http://www.cnn.com/2010/opinion/05/20/greene.ethan.stacy/index.html?hpt=c2 1515 comments reddit.com
- Dear people on Reddit that think all the world's problems are caused by baby boomers, there is a quote that 2500 years old you ought to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1980#Voter_demographics 17 comments politics
- Letters from an English soldier in World War I, posted 90 years to the day after they were written. Fascinating reading. http://wwar1.blogspot.com/ 2 comments history
- NYPD Arrests Veterans For Honoring the Dead: 25 people arrested - including an 85-year-old World War Two army veteran - because it was time to "close" the memorial and it was taking too long to read the names [of those killed] http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/10/08 30 comments politics
- There are over 130 million books in the world. If even a tenth of a percent of them are worth reading, you'd have to read three books every day for a hundred years to get through them all. http://www.mentalfloss.com/article.php?id=85305 87 comments books
- The largest library in the world. Over 170 million of items. To read every single book you will roughly need 150000 years of reading, provided that you read 3 books a day, each about 200 pages. http://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/largest-library-in-the-world 219 comments books
- This is my story from 2 years of World of Warcraft. If you play, maybe you will benefit from reading this. (Warning, quite long). http://pastebin.com/02kzp6jh 9 comments reddit.com
- ‘It Just Isn’t Working’: Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Reform | An international exam shows that American 15-year-olds are stagnant in reading and math even though the country has spent billions to close gaps with the rest of the world https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/us-students-international-test-scores.html 3 comments worldnews
- What Paper Means in Prison: Twenty-five-year-old T. H., serving a 45-day sentence found solace by reading more than 20 books to help pass the time. From the County Jail, he wrote, "I get absorbed in another world while I read but I'm disappointed when I snap back to reality and realize where I am." http://www.theawl.com/2012/06/paper-in-prison 72 comments books
- [Clark] I like Stefanski. We talked earlier this year about how often he reads big-picture analytics pieces and studies online. A lot of coaches, even young ones, don't seek out much info in the outside world. He does. https://twitter.com/bykevinclark/status/1216406771230638082?s=20 43 comments nfl
- Can someone explain this increase to me? Did the total money supply increase by 5x in just a few years or am I reading this wrong? Is this hyperinflation or what do you call this massive increase? Thanks, I'm not good at economics but I like to know what's going on in the world https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL 38 comments economics
- One of the World’s Wealthiest Oil Exporters Is Becoming Unlivable. Kuwait — one of the hottest countries on the planet — is fast becoming unlivable. In 2016, thermometers hit 54C, the highest reading on Earth in the last 76 years. How is this rich nation facing an uncomfortable future? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-16/kuwait-a-wealthy-oil-exporter-is-becoming-unlivable 132 comments energy
- Trust in China among Australians has more than halved amid diplomatic and trade disputes, with only 23% saying they trusted Beijing to act responsibly in the world compared to a 52% reading two years ago, a major poll has found. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china-iduskbn23v05o 35 comments worldnews
- Earlier this year, we released our second special edition of Hello World: The Big Book of Computing Content. In a recent blog, we share how The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy and The Big Book of Computing Content work together to help educators in the classroom. Read more and download them for free. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/reflecting-on-computing-education-hello-world-special-editions/ 4 comments cseducation
- I've been searching for this short story for years, since I first read it: Manna, the possibility of utopia in a world of dystopia http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm 4 comments reddit.com
- Using member.cash you can send an encrypted message to another user on member.cash and no power in the world can read it. It could remain hidden for hunders of years till finally your estate reveals the priv key and people in the future can now feel like they time travelled in to the past. https://member.cash/index.html#messages 10 comments btc
- According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world. http://www.vitalisnews.com/ex_ibm_employee_reveals_tv_abandoned_analog_band_to_make_room_for_rfid_chips.htm 5 comments technology
- According to a former 31-year IBM employee, the highly-publicized, mandatory switch from analog to digital television is mainly being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable RFID microchips and track people and products throughout the world. http://www.vitalisnews.com/ex_ibm_employee_reveals_tv_abandoned_analog_band_to_make_room_for_rfid_chips.htm 6 comments reddit.com