On va voir.

so don’t be surprised when naracalamme follows you

So in the comics Hawkeye has 80% hearing loss.

The Black Widow is Russian.

Can you imagine when they’re on a mission and something goes wrong; the police are about to arrest them and they fall back on Plan H.

There can be SLIGHTLY different rules regarding people with “children’s” accounts (ask your local circ desk!), but generally if you’re over the age of 13, those rules don’t apply.

THAT SAID.  Please double check this info!  One of the reasons I lost my damn mind at the Chicago Public Library earlier last year, when they redid their webpage and implemented/integrated with BiblioCommons as a third-party software management company.  Initially, there was no opt-out policy included and they didn’t include access to their legacy website/catalog system and this was a really bad thing because as per their privacy statement (which was only posted after I made several angry calls and sent a few letters, and I’m not saying I made the difference, but righteous rage and cited policy of other websites (NYPL) tend to stick in the mind), BiblioCommons - as a third party institution - could and would collect personal information if you registered with their service to ‘make your library experience easier’.  SOMETIMES EASIER DOESN’T MEAN BETTER.  Especially if the only ‘easier’ is that you don’t have to remember your damn library card number and a pin/password you make up.

Because the #1 thing that made me go :| about BiblioCommons becoming A Thing is that, as a third-party service provider, they explicitly state IN THEIR PRIVACY STATEMENT that they will collect data on who you are, what you check out, when you do it, and the volume of genre you circulate.

So!  DOUBLE CHECK with your public library a couple things.

1. If you are under the age of 18, what is the circ policy on accessing your record.  (Ask the circ person.)  If you’re all “If someone calls to renew how do you verify it’s me?” and the person is all “We just need your name!” CAUTION.  But if they’re all “Library card # or nothing.” be cheerful.  Other questions to ask is “Do you match face to name if someone comes to renew in person?” and their answer is “Oh, nah!  You can send that with Person X!” CAUTION.  Most places I’ve been to demand face to name, and that’s actually important!

2. If you use online resources/content, is there a third-party company that you have to ‘register’ with to use the online databases/catalog. (Ask the circ or reference person.)  Generally, if all you need to login to the catalog is your library card # and a password, you’re fine.  If you have a “register with a username!” DANGER SIGNS.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a woman in a burka, and…she’s fighting the…Taliban, one book and pen at a time. Introducing Burka Avenger, Pakistan’s first animated superheroine, who, like her American counterparts, leads two lives. By day she’s a “mild-mannered school teacher,” but her secret avatar is the “lady in black” who is always there to save Pakistani girls from the members of the aggressively conservative, anti-literacy Taliban.

d’aawww

You know what doesn’t fuck around?

I remind myself of what it took for me to become aware in the way I am now, of the journey it took. For so many of us, it took excessive hardship to become aware - whether it be financial hardship, exposure to racism, sexual violence, abuse, illness, etc… for a majority of us, it took something that heavy to catapult us into out concerns with social justice. And this is valid. What I’m saying is that not everyone goes through that, not everyone experiences life on the same trajectory or even faces the hardships that brought us literacy in this the hard way. So they have to learn through other ways, and those take time. Our ways do, too, for that matter. I’ve said incredibly problematic things just one or two years ago and I continue to mess up. It is the patience of fellow activists, organizers, concerned social justice advocates, friends and loved ones that keeps me growing and learning. And yes, of course, it’s also the justified, righteous rage that teaches. 

I remind myself, if I were to draw out the trajectory of my identity formation and of how I got to all the labels I take on today, it’d be a long, convoluted mess. For others, it’s very straight forward - “born to Afghan parents in America -> Afghan-American,” for example. It’s important for me to remember that others haven’t had the place/need to develop in this way and that that isn’t a bad thing; after all, I wouldn’t wish on anyone to go through what some of us did in order to be where some of us are. 

Science enthusiasm in kids and teenagers, more two stories of year 2012 | Picture edited via Sci-Tech

10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class

Clara Lazen is the discoverer of tetranitratoxycarbon, a molecule constructed of, obviously, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. It’s got some interesting possible properties, ranging from use as an explosive to energy storage. Lazen is listed as the co-author of a recent paper on the molecule. But that’s not what’s so interesting and inspiring about this story. What’s so unusual here is that Clara Lazen is a ten-year-old fifth-grader in Kansas City, MO.

Kenneth Boehr, Clara’s science teacher, handed out the usual ball-and-stick models used to visualize simple molecules to his fifth-grade class. But Clara put the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms together in a particular complex way and asked Boehr if she’d made a real molecule. Boehr, to his surprise, wasn’t sure. So he photographed the model and sent it over to a chemist friend at Humboldt State University who identified it as a wholly new but also wholly viable chemical.

16-Year-Old Egyptian Scientist Finds Way to Turn Plastic Waste Into $78 Million of Biofuel

Sixteen-year-old Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad has found that an inexpensive catalyst could be used to create $78 million worth of biofuel each year. Egypt’s plastic consumption is estimated to total one million tons per year, so Azza’s proposal could transform the country’s economy, allowing it to make money from recycled plastic.