National Police Week: Exploring Law Enforcement Lives and Leadership
Being a police officer is a dangerous job. The officer’s family members worry every day that she or he will be safe while on duty. A police officer’s retirement party is a happier occasion than any...
View ArticlePeople Get Ready, There’s a Storm Coming
Hopefully, you’ve never had to live through a hurricane or a tornado. I count myself lucky to have escaped the worst of the major weather events; living in an area that gets spent hurricanes is bad...
View ArticleGlad Dad: Best Books and Sites for Fathers
Many of our personal characteristics, such as where we are born, the color of our eyes, our native language—are due to luck. If we get good parents, this is due to luck, too. When we become parents...
View ArticleYou Scream, I Scream for National Ice Cream Month
Ice cream, long beloved by Americans, has a long, even pre-colonial history in the Americas. Some of my Mexican friends have told me that the Aztec emperor Moctezuma (popularly referred to today as...
View ArticleThink you know pink? Increase your awareness of breast cancer
October, the annual observance of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, is a time for reflection on the pervasiveness of the disease. In the general US population, one in eight women will have breast...
View ArticleBe a NOAA-it-all with these FREE NOAA resources about the weather and oceans
In the morning when I get on the elevator up to my office in GPO headquarters, when they aren’t talking about sports, everyone is chatting about the weather. My colleagues compare the day’s weather...
View ArticleGo Native and Get Healthy: Fight diabetes with a healthy Native American diet
It’s Native American Heritage Month! Let’s celebrate! Let’s have some pumpkin seeds and some corn silk tea! This month is a month to honor Indian heritage, and many powwows* and festivals are being...
View ArticleGift-Giving Traditions and 12 Books of Christmas
ORIGINS OF HOLIDAY GIFT-GIVING For centuries, Europeans and North Americans have been giving gifts around Christmastime. Image: Ancient Britons carrying a Yule log and holly branches. Source: From the...
View ArticleGet to the Olympics with Help from these Free U.S. Government Resources
Guest blogger and GPO Supervisory Librarian Valerie Furino writes about U.S. Government publications that can help you achieve your Olympic ambitions. The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are wrapping up,...
View ArticleHappy 25th Birthday, World Wide Web!
Twenty-five years ago on March 12, 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, wrote a paper proposing the system now known as the World Wide...
View ArticleStop Me If You’ve Heard This One… a Top Ten List of Funny Federal Titles
A few weeks ago, Jennifer Davis’ supervisor delivered a challenge to her via email: write a story about humorous government document titles for April Fool’s Day. (Read various stories about the origins...
View ArticleCelebrate American Indian Heritage
In 1990, President George H. W. Bush proclaimed November as “National American Indian Heritage Month,” as requested in Public Law 101-343. Since then, proclamations and legislation have been passed to...
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