This university’s library doesn’t have a single paper book

Bookless libraries aren’t quite so far-fetched as they used to be. Florida Polytechnic University, opening for the first time this fall, features a $60 million, Santiago Calatrava-designed main building with a library that doesn’t hold a single paper book within its walls. Instead, the library has space for reading, desks for doing work, and a number of desktops, laptops, and tablets readily available. It joins a small handful of universities that have opened such libraries in recent years. Instead of books, the library has a deal with publishers that lets students access a title once for free. If any other student „takes out“ the ebook of that title, the library automatically purchases it for its collection.

Of course, print still has…

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Last night on ‚Doctor Who:‘ journey to the center of a Dalek

For this season of The Doctor, Ross and Kwame Opam will be sounding off on each episode in a series of emails we’ll be publishing on the site. Warning: spoilers ahead.

After a season premiere all about Peter Capaldi finding himself as the new Doctor, „Into the Dalek“ is his first true post-regeneration adventure. Or rather, it’s more of a parable: an outrageously weird story that serves to highlight a darker truth of the Doctor’s own soul. „The Doctor goes literally into his worst enemy to try and understand good and evil… and comes out learning about the good and evil in himself.“  It’s a great pitch for an episode that mostly pulls it off. Mostly.

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