Nomadic bookseller travels all over France with his tiny library on wheels

We’ve seen a number of tiny home constructions put to all sorts of good use, but this French nomadic library on wheels is très chic. Built by tiny home specialists La Maison Qui Chemine, the Librairie Itinérante (traveling bookstore) is a custom-made tiny home built for an altruistic bookseller who travels the all over France delivering books to small villages that don’t have their own libraries or bookshops.

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What Makes The Spelling Bee So Hard

This week, 291 children, ranging from a single kindergartner to 124 eighth-graders, will assemble in National Harbor, Maryland, for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Since 1996, young spellers have attempted to spell over 14,000 words — from abactor to zymurgy. Twenty-five percent of those words, over 3,500, have been misspelled. Oliver Roeder sifts through all 21 years’ worth of errors, looking for reasons that some of the best spellers in the world stumbled when the stakes were highest.

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The Icelandic publisher that only prints books during a full moon – then burns them

Tunglið is a tiny imprint that defies conventional business models, incinerating work that doesn’t sell immediately. Its creators explain their ‘poetic act’.

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Why Are Americans So Hostile to State-Funded Art?

On May 23, the Trump administration requested that Congress close the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, the premier government organizations for funding arts, scholarship, and culture in the United States. The NEH and the NEA, despite commanding a tiny fraction of the federal government’s budget, have long been on the GOP’s kill list, since conservatives consider them to be a complete waste of taxpayer money.

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To prevent another week of terror, our [U.K.] state must not become a vast Isis recruiting sergeant

British Libyans and Libyan exiles who had their passports returned to fight Gaddafi were always unlikely to return as model citizens. By Patrick Cockburn.

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Cerro Torre Mountain

A shot from the hike up to the base camp through the autumnal coloured forest below Cerro Torre Mountain one of the most recognisable with it's distinctive pointed peak standing 3128m high.

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Chasing the Harvest: ‘If You Want to Die, Stay at the Ranch’

In this oral history, a former sheepherder describes the loneliness and medical hardship he experienced while tending sheep in California’s Central Valley. By Heraclio Astete, with journalist Gabriel Thompson.

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Who’s the real cunt?: Dacre’s Paper

Andrew O’Hagan reviews “Mail Men: The Unauthorised Story of the ‘Daily Mail’, the Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain” by Adrian Addison.

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Trump’s Ignorance Is Radicalizing U.S. Historians

They’re in great demand by the media. But will many Americans even believe what they’re saying, or accuse them of partisan bias? By Graham Vyse. (May 3, 2017)

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Mousetrap sniffs out graffiti and alerts train staff.

Sydney Trains is using a new technology named Mousetrap to sniff out graffiti vandals and alert the police. (2015)

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