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Two kinds of freedom
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Schools are using software to help pick who gets in. What could go wrong?
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Why Plymouth has a population of zero, despite being the de jure capital of Montserrat
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Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea
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The history of the Black radical group MOVE and its infamous bombing by police
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Why is English spelling so damn weird?
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If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?
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Feminisms in Mexico: From particularism toward a concrete universalism
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The sad tale of Frank Olson, the US Government's hallucinogen fall man
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"How to do what you love": An essay on finding goals and discovering what things you really enjoy doing.
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Mankind, unite!
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Can you spot a map trap? | Map Men
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Math teachers should be more like football coaches
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Pope Francis stops hiding from the Church’s sexual-abuse epidemic
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'It could change everything': Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
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10 things I learned about ancient China from studying Chinese characters
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The Hitler industrial complex: Why Hitler is everywhere
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During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw
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Behemoth, bully, thief: How the English language is taking over the planet
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Wisconsin: The perfect place to address America’s apartheid
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A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE
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Lori Loughlin feels wronged in college admissions scandal
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Ancient rock art in the plains of India: Two amateur sleuths have uncovered a collection of mysterious rock carvings on the Indian coastal plain south of Mumbai
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Recreating a medieval method of splitting a log into rafter
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Siege of Jerusalem 70 AD - Great Jewish revolt
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Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick's grave 'found by author'
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Ramadan: Three Muslims explain how they combine its spirituality with their busy lives
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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Conservatives want Catholic bishops to denounce pope as heretic
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Evolution: How the theory is inspiring a new way of understanding language
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The powerful group shaping the rise of Hindu nationalism in India
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The cultural significance of cyberpunk
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Froebel’s Gifts
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LA’s elite on edge as prosecutors pursue more parents in admissions scandal
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Out of the cradle - a high quality, short, cgi film series about human prehistory
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An Election Held Hostage? - 1991
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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Dictionaries recently added more than 1,500 words. Here are some new entries.
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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United Methodist court upholds Traditional Plan’s ban on LGBTQ clergy, same sex marriage
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Ignore the Poway Synagogue shooter’s manifesto: Pay attention to 8chan’s /pol/ board
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The birth of cheap communication (and junk mail)
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Can you access university libraries in your country w/o an affiliation to the university?
In Turkey, where I live, almost all universities restrict access to staff and students (only their own students if not a graduate student); the only exception I can find is the Koç University...
In Turkey, where I live, almost all universities restrict access to staff and students (only their own students if not a graduate student); the only exception I can find is the Koç University where paid membership is open to public. I've researched in the past and found that major universities around the world---i.e. Italy, France, UK, US; selection factor being the languages I can read---seem to allow the public to access in one way or another (article, in Turkish, with results). But I wonder how accurate my reading is with the reality, and thus I'm asking this question.
So, as a plain citizen w/o any current affiliation to any educational institutions, can you access university libraries where you live? Does it matter if you have certain diplomas or affiliations? How easy it is?
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Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure
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Apartheid ended twenty-five years ago. How has South Africa changed?
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Guam starts new effort to save dying CHamoru language
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New place names lift Māori culture in New Zealand’s capital
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