by Jess Faraday | Mar 5, 2018 | Curious News, Dangerous News, Inspiring, New, News, Useful
When a lot of people think of heroes, their thoughts turn to firefighters, medical personnel, soldiers, and others who rush into danger to help others. Librarians don’t ordinarily make the list. But librarians have a long history of standing up to injustice and...
by Jess Faraday | Mar 2, 2018 | Curious News, Dangerous News, Disaster, Inspiring, Nature News, New, News
Amid freezing weather conditions, snowbound Scotland needed a hero. And they found one in Edinburgh bus driver Charmaine Laurie. Britain spent the first day of spring shivering beneath nearly two feet of snow. Up north in Scotland, roads were blocked, schools closed,...
by FabWeb Editorial | Nov 27, 2015 | Dangerous News, Disaster, New
Since Nixon declared a “war on drugs” during a speech in 1971 drug policy has been dominated by a certain style of aggressive tactics and rhetoric to curb recreational drug-use, arguably driven less by science and statistics and more by economics and emotion. Last...
by FabWeb Editorial | Nov 26, 2015 | Curious News, Dangerous News, Disaster, New
Is the information presented to us in history textbooks really true? The short answer to that is, not really. I think it would be difficult to deny that the telling of history is a subjective endeavour. Much as we would like to think otherwise, life does not naturally...
by FabWeb Editorial | Nov 26, 2015 | Curious News, Dangerous News, New
Most people think that it’s radical Islam that’s fueling the bloodlust ISIS seems to live for. It may be true and a political agenda makes the ideology even more dangerous, but there’s more to why ISIS fighters are almost inhuman in their capacity to kill even women...
by FabWeb Editorial | Nov 25, 2015 | Curious News, Dangerous News, Useful
Anyone who has ever been in a relationship is most likely familiar with the little (and major) red flags that often come along with the territory. You’ve probably been warned by everyone from your grandmother to Oprah about red flags in romantic...
