Wikipedia is filled with information provided by users, and it gets around eighteen billion views each month. Anyone has access to editing a Wikipedia page to add in any crucial information. In the past, this has led to Wikipedia being seen as an unreliable source of information. Who knows what people are adding and if it’s even true? No one takes the time to consider that because anyone can go in and add information it means that certain subjects are sorely lacking. In response to this, Wikipedia hosts Edit-a-Thon’s to make sure the necessary information finds its way onto world …
HBO’s long-running, hit series Game of Thrones has officially come to an end, but that doesn’t mean HBO is short of material. They have plenty on the deck ready to go, and one major project is the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. There are three installments in Pullman’s series: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. Each book features the adventures of Lyra (who will be played by Dafne Keen) and Will, two seemingly ordinary kids who find themselves on a thrilling journey through a world of fantasy. It’s no wonder HBO wants to stick with the fantasy genre, …
It’s official. After nine years, eight seasons, and five books with two more to come, we finally have an answer to who wins the Game of Thrones. The answer: no one. The Iron Throne is melted by Drogon, leaving only molten iron behind. What happens to the Seven Kingdoms? Well, they are now six kingdoms ruled by Bran the Broken, while Sansa Stark rules the North as an independent nation. Sansa began the series as the girl who just wanted to be queen. She wanted to marry Joffrey and have baby princes and princesses. The match was made between Robert Baratheon …
With last night’s series finale there is only one thing for certain: we are all waiting with bated breath for George R.R. Martin to release the last two books so we are not left with…whatever that was. While the last two episodes didn’t seem to be pushing the show in the direction we had expected on any level, I most certainly wasn’t expecting a major character to be killed half way through and never mentioned again. I wasn’t expecting every major plot twist and storyline introduced to be ultimately completely ignored. What even happened last night? I know I normally …
It’s never too early or too late to discover the joy of reading. The Pratt Public Library and Pratt Regional Medical Center have come together to create a “Books for Babies” program that gifts books to newborns, hoping to spark the joy of reading early. image via pratt tribune The Medical Center already gives out gift baskets for new moms and newborns to take home, and thanks to the Pratt Public Library a Curious George book will be added. Library director, Eric Killough, got the idea from his wife living in Canada. A library in Toronto had a similar idea, …
