In Our Feeds: back-to-school, full Google, historical images and more!

Alexandra Wladich  //  Sep 5, 2014

In Our Feeds: back-to-school, full Google, historical images and more!

Each Friday, we share a handful of links we found interesting, provocative, funny — or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a good weekend!

Have you ever had trouble editing your own writing? Don’t worry, there is a psychological reason you can’t spot your own typos!

As kids across the country start or return to school, I recommend watching this video—it’s pretty amazing. A father photographed his daughter every day for 2 1/2 years walking 2 1/2 blocks to school.

Calling all 90’s children! Here’s a flash back to the best back-to-school products, ever! From Caboodles to Bonne Bell cosmetics, relive your school days, here.

Looking for a historical image? An American academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images.

What Do Schools Risk By Going ‘Full Google’? (Side note, according to this article “full Google” means a plan to have one Google Chromebook for every two students.)

A new study found that readers absorb less on Kindles than when they read paperback books.  In addition, Kindle readers were "significantly" worse than paperback readers at recalling when events occurred in a mystery story.

Check out this interview with Courtney Young, President of the American Library Association and hear how technology is changing our libraries.

Sadly, summer is officially over. To get you in the Fall/Halloween spirit, check out these 32 spooky items every “Goosebumps” fan needs

Do you keep a diary? If you answered yes, you are not alone. Read famous writers thoughts on keeping a diary.

The new Mockingjay movie promo poster is fierce!  

We just love this peek inside the Folger Library Vault in D.C., which houses many rare copies of Shakespeare books and artifacts.