Recommendo – “On Google Maps: in between the standard street view, and the realistic satellite view, lies another hidden view called Terrain. Terrain is an almost artistic rendering of a physical place without all the distractions of an aerial photograph. Its crisp clarity is tremendously useful as a base map — and beautiful. To get… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2019
For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership?
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/07/academics-what-matters-more-journal-prestige-or-readership For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership? [Science] Continue Reading
This Tool Lets You See Facebook’s Targeted Political Ads All Over the World
Vice – Facebook has failed to be fully transparent with data concerning political advertising, so two researchers collected the data themselves.”A team of two researchers has created the most comprehensive visualization of Facebook’s political advertisements. Detailing hundreds of thousands of ads across 34 countries by more than 150 political actors, ad.watch is a new tool… Continue Reading
Edward Snowden memoir to reveal whistleblower’s secrets
The Guardian – In Permanent Record, the former spy will recount how his mass surveillance work eventually led him to make the biggest leak in history – “After multiple books and films about his decision to leak the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history, whistleblower Edward Snowden is set to tell his side of the… Continue Reading
Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis in Collaboration with Their Communities: An Introduction
Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis in Collaboration with Their Communities: An Introduction By Michele Coleman and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. “The nation is experiencing an opioid epidemic. As communities across the country feel the epidemic’s impact, public health and human service organizations are implementing responses that include healthcare, education, law enforcement and the judicial system,… Continue Reading
Originalism and Stare Decisis in the Lower Courts
Blackman, Josh, Originalism and Stare Decisis in the Lower Courts (July 22, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3424348 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3424348 “The tension between originalism and stare decisis is well known. Many of the Supreme Court’s most significant constitutional decisions are completely unmoored from the original public understanding of the Constitution. A Supreme Court Justice may recognize… Continue Reading
Museums Need to Step Into the Future
The New York Times – “America’s museums are more than repositories of ancient Greek statues and Renaissance paintings. They are guardians of a fading social and demographic order. On Thursday, Warren Kanders resigned from the board of the Whitney Museum of Art, after protests over his company’s sale of tear gas grenades that were reportedly… Continue Reading
California privacy act interpretation could make common newsgathering practice unlawful
Reporters Committee for Freedom of Information – ” The California court of appeal is considering an expansive interpretation of state privacy law — in a pending lawsuit pending involving Yelp — that would make it unlawful to take notes during telephone conversations. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a coalition of 17… Continue Reading
Your Job Will Be Automated—Here’s How to Figure out When A.I. Could Take Over
Fortune – “Automation is increasingly making its way into the workplace, raising concerns among employees about the ways technology will change their jobs—or eliminate them entirely. A June 2019 report by Oxford Economics predicts that 8.5% of the world’s manufacturing positions alone—some 20 million jobs—will be displaced by robots by 2030. But that’s the wrong… Continue Reading
The Birth of the Semicolon
The Paris Review – “The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494. It was meant to signify a pause of a length somewhere between that of the comma and that of the colon, and this heritage was reflected in its form, which combines half of each of those marks. It was born into a time… Continue Reading
