Household Food Security in the United States in 2016 – “An estimated 87.7 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2016, meaning they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (12.3 percent) were food insecure at least… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Congressional Consideration of Resolutions to “Censure” Executive Branch Officials
CRS INSIGHT Congressional Consideration of Resolutions to “Censure” Executive Branch Officials, September 14, 2017 (IN10774): “Over the history of the federal Congress, Members have proposed resolutions to formally express the House or Senate’s censure, disapproval, loss of confidence, or condemnation of the President or other executive branch official or their actions. This Insight summarizes the… Continue Reading
Elsevier DataSearch Beta
Search for research data across domains and types, from many domain-specific, cross-domain and institutional data repositories. “Elsevier DataSearch (https://datasearch.elsevier.com) is a data search engine that allows scientists and researchers to search for many different data types and formats across a variety of domain-specific and cross-domain institutional data repositories and other data sources. Results display datasets… Continue Reading
New Google search feature links to local libraries to borrow ebooks
Google tweets “Calling all U.S. bookworms! Now you can take a look at what e-books are available to borrow at your local library, right in Search…” via SlashGear. Continue Reading
Infographic comparing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Other Cryptos
Are you confused by the language, structure, operations and frameworks that comprise the growin cryptocurrency universe? Visual Capitalist “…worked with social trading network eToro to come up with an infographic that breaks down the major differences between these coins all in one place.” See also the New York Times – In China’s Hinterlands, Workers Mine… Continue Reading
NYT – Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web
The web is not as open as it once was, with nation-states exerting their power over the internet: “…Facebook encapsulates the reasons for the internet’s fragmentation — and increasingly, its consequences. The company has become so far-reaching that more than two billion people — about a quarter of the world’s population — now use Facebook… Continue Reading
How many people completed listening to audiobooks by politicans?
Via FiveThiryEight – Politicians Write Lots Of Books. Here’s How Far Into Them People Read: “…here are two ways to slice this data. First, you can look at the percentage of the book the average listener played (the second column from the right). The average reader made it through three-quarters of “Faith of My Fathers”… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – AI And The Rule Of Law
Via LLRX – AI And The Rule Of Law – Our exposure to and reliance upon an increasingly ubiquitous range of technology is intertwined with issues related to intellectual property law. With smartphone cameras used to capture and share what their respective creators otherwise claim as intellectual property, to the devices, services and applications that… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – The Fight to Bring Legal Research to the Front
Via LLRX – The Fight to Bring Legal Research to the Front – Law librarian and professor Brandon Adler identifies core issues to support educating third year law students in a wide range of reliable free and low cost legal resources. Many law librarians acknowledge that there is a lack of awareness and use of… Continue Reading
Debunking Study Suggests Ways to Counter Misinformation and Correct ‘Fake News’
News release: “It’s no use simply telling people they have their facts wrong. To be more effective at correcting misinformation in news accounts and intentionally misleading “fake news,” you need to provide a detailed counter-message with new information – and get your audience to help develop a new narrative. Those are some takeaways from an… Continue Reading
The history, achievements and future work of Internet Wayback Machine
“We may be years away from the invention of the first functional time machine, but thanks to this awesome San Francisco-based non-profit digital library we can have “universal access to all knowledge.” Sounds great, right? The Internet archive was founded in 1996 with the mission: “We are building a public library that can serve anyone… Continue Reading
German universities looking to pursue alternatives to Elsevier journal access
Follow up to Academic institutions in Germany continue to cancel journal subscriptions as costs soar see Loans between libraries, and research sharing between colleagues, could allow country to sever links, negotiators claim “German universities have coped “easily” when cut off from Elsevier journals and do not need to rely on pirate article-sharing sites such as… Continue Reading
