April 20, 2026 Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that...

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Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS (@hanaleegoldin) 5 prompts to run before making any meaningful decision A chatbot becomes a better thinking partner the moment we stop asking it to make our decisions and start asking it to interrogate them. The real...

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5 prompts to run before making any decisions.

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April 19, 2026 On the evening of April 18, 1775, the people who lived in the British colony of Massachusetts had gone to bed with the sun, as usual.

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Fantastic recounting of historical facts that we all had learned, but HCR ties all the pieces together.
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Alex & Books (@alexandbooks) David Foster Wallace on why people struggle to read books: (this was filmed in 2003 but is even more true today)

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Interesting observation from DFW from 2003.
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April 17, 2026 This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday, Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships.

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Michael Omartian: One of the Unsung Giants of Music YouTube video by Rick Beato

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Rick Beato interviews Michael Omartian. Simply amazing interview. Came out two years ago. I'm behind the times.

Omartian played the piano in several Steely Dan records, produced Christopher Cross' first album, the one that broke out. Love it.

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Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS (@hanaleegoldin) 6 ways AI answers break down, and what each one looks like A wrong chatbot answer rarely announces itself. The response arrives fluent and plausible, which is what makes the failures hard to spot in ...

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Good practice when you don't trust the answer from AI.
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NPR receives $113 million in charitable gifts, including $80 million from Connie Ballmer NPR said the donation from Ballmer, the largest to the public radio network by a living donor, will help offset the loss of federal funding in 2025.

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Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS (@hanaleegoldin) 6 phrases that improve any prompt, anywhere A chatbot's first answer often isn't its best one, especially for anything complex or ambiguous. The same question, asked with a few extra words attached, ...

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Oscar Wilde on how to keep a notebook YouTube video by Vashik Armenikus

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Ways to actually digest what you want to remember.

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Is Trump Losing the Catholics? His numbers with Catholic voters have been sliding for months. Now the GOP faces a midterm map where disaffected Catholic voters may prove decisive.

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April 15, 2026 On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., to see a production of the comedy Our American Cousin. The Linc...

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Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS (@hanaleegoldin) A WWII codebreaker invented the system that now identifies books worldwide The system that identifies every book in the modern publishing industry is less than 60 years old. Before the late 1960s, l...

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The Bruce Hornsby Interview YouTube video by Rick Beato

Amazing hour with Bruce Hornsby.

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April 14, 2026 There are signs the political game has changed in the United States since Hungarian voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership on Sunday, April 12.

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Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS (@hanaleegoldin) When we need to find something out, most of us open a search engine. That instinct makes sense because search engines are fast, familiar, and usually good enough for everyday questions. But there's an...

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Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS (@hanaleegoldin) 5 collections that put their archives online for everyone Millions of digitized records are sitting in free, public online archives right now, covering everything from 15th-century botanical illustra...

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April 13, 2026 On April 12, the day of Hungary’s parliamentary elections, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted on social media that it was closely watching the election and stood firmly behind ...

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Wealthy Educator | Business Lessons on Instagram: "Twenty to thirty minutes of daily reading produces measurable long-term effects on stress, memory, emotional intelligence, and lifespan. The most e... 42K likes, 321 comments - itswealthyeducator on April 7, 2026: "Twenty to thirty minutes of daily reading produces measurable long-term effects on stress, memory, emotional intelligence, and lifespan....

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