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Can’t Find Your Friends? Check the Library
17 January 08 08:26 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Libraries aren’t what they used to be. No more stuffy, hair-bun-bearing librarians, no more thumbing through cumbersome card catalogs, and no more getting lost in aisles of endless Encyclopedia Britannicas. Libraries are now high-tech, high-speed information Read More...

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Zombie Nation: Digital Dependence Leads to “Junk Sleep”
05 September 07 01:01 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

We’ve all likely experienced the phenomenon British researchers have dubbed “junk sleep”—dozing that’s haunted by our technology-infused world. Sleep deprived or interrupted by the nonstop puzzle action of Tetris , the nightlong raids and looting of World Read More...

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