In Our Feeds: Father's Day, the world's rarest colors & reading according to Teddy Roosevelt

Brittany Sullivan  //  Jun 17, 2016

In Our Feeds: Father's Day, the world's rarest colors & reading according to Teddy Roosevelt

Every Friday, we share a handful of links that we found funny, provocative or just plain cool. We call it In Our Feeds. Have a great weekend!

  • In Istanbul, Samer al-Kadri has created the first Arabic bookstore, Pages Bookstore and Café, as a safe haven for Syrians displaced by the war. He’s also creating a new publishing house that will print debut novels in Arabic by young Syrian writers!
  • Don’t miss this very clever story about student loan debt titled "Harry Potter And The Curse Of The Student Loans." Who knew that Hogwarts could be so expensive?
  • In honor of June, Pride Month, here are 10 books celebrating LGBTQ+ pride including Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers by Hazel Newlevant and Sophie Yanow.
  • WOW! Watch this Dad catch a baseball while holding his daughter at a Phillies/Blue Jays game like it's no big deal. P.S. Happy Father’s day!
  • Our 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, loved reading. Because of this, BootRiot writer Jeremy Anderberg created this list of “Teddy Roosevelt’s 10 Rules for Reading!”
  • The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums contains samples of the world's rarest colors. The museum’s director, Narayan Khandekar, discusses 10 of the rarest and most interesting pigments in the Forbes collection with Fast Company