| Upside Comics: UK charity that uses comics to promote literacy - Mon, 21 May 2012 07:14:40 PDT |
This weekend, I took my daughter to the Kapow! comics fair in Islington, London, and happened on the Upside Comics booth. Upside is a charitable trust that promotes literacy using comics. They run comics-creation workshops for kids, produce pro-literacy comics, and bibliographies of great kids' comics. They're looking for donations of comics and graphic novels, [...]
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| Free edu-comic about genomics and stem cells, written by Ken Macleod - Mon, 21 May 2012 07:09:27 PDT |
Ken Macleod and the European stem cell research consortium OptiStem have produced a CC-licensed educational comic about genomics called "Hope Beyond Hype." It's available as a free download, or as a&gbp;1 hardcopy, with translations to follow in many languages. 'starts with the true life story of two badly burned boys being treated with stem [...]
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| Did the Kansas legislature just accidentally prevent itself from banning gay marriage? - Mon, 21 May 2012 06:51:44 PDT |
Read the text of the "anti-Sharia" bill that passed in the Kansas state legislature last week. I'm no legal scholar, but it sure does seem like you could use this to make a case that it's now illegal to ban gay marriage in the state of Kansas. If so, that would be an amusing bit [...]
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