Here are 15 things I thought were worth sharing:
- If it’s January, it’s Public Domain Month!! Read more about what came into the public domain from the folks at the Public Domain Review, from the folks at NPR, and read some free e-books that are now in the public domain!
- “On WikiFlix, a Netflix-inspired archive of public domain films, you can watch movies like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Nosferatu” for free. You don’t even have to make an account! Crazy, right?”
- New Year = new opportunity to plug the free resources you get with your Brooklyn Public Library card!
- New Year = perfect time to celebrate yourself and read something from our borough’s unofficial poet laureate!
- How reading changes the way your brain works
- An updated list of the most-banned books in America.
- How the reliance on computers in classrooms impacts students.
- The best audiobooks of 2025.
- “52 Things I Learned in 2025” from Kent Hendricks and Nancy Friedman.
- "Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of most buildings in the five boroughs of New York City. In 2018, the NYC Municipal Archives completed the digitization and tagging of these photos. This website places them on a map. Zoom in! Every dot is a photo."
- Want to know where all the billionaires are?
- Play around with the news!
- Ten people who helped shape science in 2025
- It’s always the right time to incorporate six-word memoirs into your lesson plans!
- Click on a neighborhood, listen to a recording & get some history of the area!
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