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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 #44

The Non-fiction Feature: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Poetry Spot: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, editor Arnold Rampersad
The Product Spot: PBS – Slavery by Another Name (film)

Posted bypithysummaryApril 3, 2025April 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Products

PBS – Slavery by Another Name (film)

A film about why black Southerners sought to leave, the North’s role in the migration, and the factors that led to the migration.

Posted bypithysummaryApril 3, 2025April 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Products

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

A compilation of poems by one of this country’s most esteemed poets, who lived during the Great Migration.

Posted bypithysummaryApril 3, 2025April 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Memoir & Poetry

The Warmth of Other Suns

The incredible mass movement of millions of blacks forging a path north in the early 1900s.

Posted bypithysummaryApril 3, 2025April 11, 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

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