Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas

By James B. Blasingame, Professor of English, Arizona State University

When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in its Dewey decimal system-assigned location.

It turns out the title had been removed from the library’s shelves because of a complaint, and in compliance with Florida House Bill 1069, it had been removed from the library indefinitely. Kerouac’s quintessential…

Read complete article

~	Impostor syndrome: the cost of being ‘superwoman’ at work and beyond

~	Psychogeography makes maps of our emotions – with huge potential for healthcare services

~	‘Fat but fit’: what the latest study reveals

~	How a fly sees the world – and why understanding its vision can help prevent disease

~	Calling deaths ‘preventable’ can obscure barriers to health care access and shift blame to individuals

~	Why do big oil companies invest in green energy?

~	Harvard, like all Americans, can’t be punished by the government for speaking freely – and a federal court decision upholds decades of precedents saying so

~	Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment

~	Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life

~	Muslim men have often been portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘fanatics’ on TV shows, but Muslim-led storytelling is trying to change that narrative