Tag Archives: nonfiction

I Read This On The Internet – One of a Kind

Posted on August 19, 2014 by

This is a really lovely story focusing specifically on the struggles a young family has in getting a diagnosis for their son with an incredibly rare genetic disorder, and more broadly on the way that social media and informed families are … Continue reading →

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I read this on the internet – True Crime, The New Yorker

Posted on August 5, 2014 by

If you haven’t heard yet, The New Yorker has given free online access to it’s content since 2007. Yay! Longform.com listed some of their favorite available articles and I read this one first: True Crime tells the story of one … Continue reading →

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Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, by Hazel Rowley

Posted on June 2, 2014 by

Franklin and Eleanor, by Hazel Rowley, intrigued me with it’s premise of exploring the Roosevelt’s relationship rather than focusing on FDR’s presidency, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I really felt like I was reading a book about Eleanor Roosevelt … Continue reading →

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I read this on the internet – The Mind Readers

Posted on May 14, 2014 by

A very interesting piece on the science of consciousness, raising the age-old and yet-to-be-solved questions: what is the difference between life and death? what is consciousness? Click on the picture below to read about the research being done for individuals … Continue reading →

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I read this on the internet – The Trouble With Shaken Baby Syndrome

Posted on May 2, 2014 by

Wow. What a story. I had not heard that there was some debate in the medical field regarding this diagnosis, but a important bit of information for anyone around children. It really throws all previous convictions into fairly serious doubt, … Continue reading →

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