Reading and Listening | January 23, 2013

Reading

The New York Times | Wednesday, January 23, 2013

• You Are Going to Die by Tim Krieder
• Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit by Tamar Lewin

The Wall Street Journal | Wednesday, January 23, 2013

• U. K. Rethinks Ties to Europe by Cassell Bryan-Low and Nicholas Winning
• States Weigh Picking Up Train Tab by by Mark Peters
• Attacked Bolshoi Director Voices Hope by Lukas I. Alpert
• Microsoft Sizes Up Dell by Anupreeta Das, Shira Ovide, and Ben Worthan

Inside Higher Education

• Skepticism About Tenure, MOOCs and the Presidency: A Survey of Provosts by Scott Jaschik
• MOOCs for Credit by Scott Jaschik

American Libraries | January / February 2013

• What You Can Do about Ebooks and Libraries by Maureen Sullivan – Sorry to see that my sister’s publishing house is a holdout.  “Of the Big Six, only Simon & Schuster has taken no action.”
• Libraries as Safe Spaces by Shawn Vallancourt

ZDNet

• A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates by Ed Bott

Listening

• Dreams in Stereo by Zero Cult
• Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Water Music by Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Copland: Bernstein Century – Copland by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic
• Kumharas Ibiza, Volume 5 by various artists
• Abacab by Genesis
• Aerial Boundaries by Michael Hedges
• Wide Awake in America by U2
• Who’s Next by the Who