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Pithy Summary – Bulletin #45

The Non-fiction Feature: Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
The Children’s Spot: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
The Product Spot: Khan Academy

Posted byCarlenMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Khan Academy

A super helpful free resource for learning the basics of almost any subject you can think of.

Posted byCarlenMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025Posted inArchives, Products

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

An excellent, simple guide to the central concepts of statistics, with pictures and clear explanations.

Posted byCarlenMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025Posted inArchives, Children's

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data

Illuminating the underlying logic of statistics, and how it can be used for or against us.

Posted byCarlenMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #43

The Non-fiction Feature: Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Fiction Spot: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Product Spot: Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

How U.S. foreign affairs shaped the world with the Order, and a view of what’s to come.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025April 10, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Things Fall Apart

The archetypal modern African novel that contrasts life in precolonial Africa with the colonialism that followed.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Fiction

Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)

Via essays, reports, books, a podcast, and more, Foreign Affairs is incredibly useful as a high-level, thorough, substantive, and intelligent take on how the U.S. impacts the world today.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Products

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #42

The Non-fiction Feature: The Creation of the Media by Paul Starr
The Memoir & Poetry Spot: Me and The Times by Robert Stock
The Product Spot: News Literacy Project

Posted byCarlenDecember 16, 2024December 16, 2024Posted inUncategorized

News Literacy Project

The News Literacy Project provides resources for the general public and educators to help them learn how to identify credible information.

Posted byCarlenDecember 16, 2024December 16, 2024Posted inArchives, Products

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