Dot’s Reading Room: The Bedford Citizen Featured in Kennedy Book by Dorothy Bergin March 14, 2024 2 mins read Dot Bergin is reading about The Bedford Citizen this week in Dot's Reading Room! Dot looks at Dan Kennedy's new book "What Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Women’s History Month by Dorothy Bergin March 8, 2024 2 mins read Today is International Women's Day. March is Women's History Month. Dot is reading up on Census Bureau facts about women's history in Read More
Dot’s Reading Room – Super Bowl Special by Dorothy Bergin February 8, 2024 1 min read Dot is reading about Super Bowl ads this month in Dot's Reading Room. Read More
Dot’s Reading Room – Jan. 30: Laundry Pollution by Dorothy Bergin January 30, 2024 1 min read Dot's reading about laundry and microplastics in this week's Dot's Reading Room. Check it out! Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Jan. 11 by Dorothy Bergin January 11, 2024 1 min read Dot has been reading a lot lately! Today she's been reading about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s antiwar stance. Check it out Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Mickey Mouse Lovers Take Note! Jan. 2, 2024 by Dorothy Bergin January 5, 2024 2 mins read Dot's reading about Public Domain Day in Dot's Reading Room. From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Steamboat Willie, do you know what entered Read More
Dot’s Reading Room – Jan. 1, 2024 by Dorothy Bergin January 2, 2024 1 min read As the calendar turns, Dot is looking at the U.S. Census data in this edition of Dot's Reading Room. You might be Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Nov. 30, 2023 by Dorothy Bergin November 30, 2023 1 min read On the one-year anniversary of the official launch date of ChatGPT, Dot is reading about how AI has been affecting students in Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Cranberries – What’s Your Preference? by Dorothy Bergin November 13, 2023 1 min read It's November. Dot's thinking about the Thanksgiving table and reading up on cranberries, a fruit that was only domesticated about 200 years Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: ‘The Laws of War’ by Dorothy Bergin October 23, 2023 1 min read Dot's in the Reading Room reading up on the laws of war. Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: And now for a lighter moment in the Reading Room by Dorothy Bergin October 4, 2023 1 min read In the latest Dot's Reading Room, Dot is reading about... Fetterman's legs?! Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Video Games Creating a New Generation of Classical Music Fans by Dorothy Bergin September 6, 2023 1 min read Dot has been reading up on the video game Starfield, and how video games are creating a new generation of classical music Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: On Making it Official by Dorothy Bergin August 4, 2023 1 min read “Just about anybody in America can officiate a wedding, thanks to the internet – and one determined preacher." American culture.” If you Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: How Important is the “Age Factor” in the 2024 Presidential Election? by Dorothy Bergin April 26, 2023 1 min read Today’s “Reading Room” pulls from an article in “The Conversation” by historian Maurizio Valsania. How Important is the “Age Factor” in the Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: International Women’s Day by Dorothy Bergin March 8, 2023 1 min read Dot looks at some key statistics about women, who make up more than one-half of our population. Read More
Dot’s Reading Room – February 2023 by Dorothy Bergin February 24, 2023 3 mins read For the February Reading Room, Dot focuses on "a truly remarkable book" - “Half American: the Epic Story of African Americans fighting Read More
Dot’s Reading Room – What if the Jan. 6 attack had succeeded? by Dorothy Bergin January 6, 2023 1 min read A Harvard professor’s book asks: What if the Jan. 6 attack had succeeded? Read More
Dot’s Reading Room – Y’all for Yankees? by Dorothy Bergin January 4, 2023 1 min read “Y'all," that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time. Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: ‘Over the Holidays Try Talking to Your Relatives Like an Anthropologist’ by Dorothy Bergin December 21, 2022 1 min read “How is it possible to spend so much time with your parents and grandparents and not really know them?" Read More
Dot’s Reading Room – The First Televised World Series Spurred America’s Television Boom, 75 Years Ago by Dorothy Bergin November 2, 2022 1 min read It wasn’t until the 1947 World Series between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers – 75 years ago – that fans Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Our Very Distant Cousins – the Neanderthals by Dorothy Bergin October 6, 2022 1 min read It must have been all those National Geographic Magazines I devoured as a child but I’ve always been fascinated by the Neanderthals. Read More
This week, Sept. 18-24, is “Banned Books” Week ~ “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us” by Dorothy Bergin September 21, 2022 1 min read An article in The Conversation by a University of Southern California professor who teaches a class on banned books says book bans Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: Electric School Buses ~ 1,000 in California, 18 in Massachusetts by Dorothy Bergin September 2, 2022 1 min read Electric school buses are taking students back to school – bringing cleaner air and lower maintenance costs to school districts across the Read More
Dot’s Reading Room ~ The Evolution of the National Rifle Association by Dorothy Bergin May 27, 2022 1 min read This timely article appears in today’s issue of The Conversation:How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to Read More
Dot’s Reading Room: A New Concern as You Start to Think About Filing Your Tax Return…. by Dorothy Bergin February 1, 2022 1 min read Government agencies—including the IRS—are using a facial recognition company to prove your identity. James Hendler, Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Read More