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What is Canada Day and how is it celebrated? The answer is more complicated than some might think
CNN.com· 6 days agoMany of us Canadians celebrate this annual July 1 holiday much the same way Americans approach...
What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started
Richmond News· 5 days agoIn the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country's first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown's ...
This country has a national happiness index. But what is it really like to live there?
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTo make it easier for people to open up, Coffee Cat Café holds events like poetry readings. There...
The US is at risk for dengue fever
The Week via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoThe U.S. is not at severe risk just yet, thanks to air conditioning and screened windows limiting exposure to mosquitos. Cases should stay low "as long...
Opinion | To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy
New York Times· 12 hours agoMr. Langellier is a writer and field botanist in Vermont. In 2009, the botanist Naomi Fraga was hunting a flower without a name near Carson City, Nev....
Paul Theroux on Necessary Solitude, Risks and the Joy of Writing
New York Times· 5 days agoAfter 60 years and almost as many books, the novelist and travel writer, 83, will stop when he falls...
My Mind Is Absolutely Blown From These 51 Photos That Are Making Me Look At These Pop Culture...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo Canada News· 6 days ago...Gene Lester / Getty Images 36.This is then-Vice President Richard Nixon riding Peter Pan's Flight...
Top Taylor Swift books for Swifties of all ages
National Post· 5 days agoFill in those "Blank Spaces" on your bookshelf with these must-have books.
Earth's Inner Core May Be Slowing Its Spin, Another Study Suggests
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoThe only way to know firsthand would be to take a real Journey to the Center of the Earth—but for now, a new study suggests our planet’s inner core might be spinning more slowly than it used ...
The 22 Best New Book Releases This Month: July 2024
Parade· 6 days agoFrom Rainbow Rowell to Tiger Woods (and dragons!), we’ve got them all. It picks things up decades later when everyone in his family–and I do mean...