“Gen Z and Millennial social media users are more likely than older generations online to engage with climate change content on social media and to express a range of emotions when they see climate-related content there – including anxiety about the future and anger that not enough is being done, according to a new Pew… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2021
8 Great Sites to Do a Book Search by Plot or Subject
Make Use Of: “Looking for your next book? These sites let you perform a book search by plot or subject, helping you find the perfect read. Books are wonderful things; they give you a pathway to enter the world of fantasies, delve into history, solve mysteries, and so much more. But two things that haunt readers… Continue Reading
Client Portals: A Must-Have Service for Today’s Law Firms
Attorney at Work – By Jim Calloway. “Beyond secure document sharing, client portals for law firms can serve as a “virtual lobby” for clients and potential clients. With businesses and individuals now managing most of their documents digitally, a fundamental question for lawyers going forward is: How do you securely share documents with your clients?… Continue Reading
Top DC Workplaces 2021
Washington Post: Meet the 200 companies in the D.C. area with the highest ratings from their employees – also provides a search engine. Read about our methodology. Read more about the 2021 Top Workplaces. Explore the rankings by size or industry. Jump to: Largest • Large • Medium • Small Continue Reading
Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian)
Open Culture: “Umberto Eco knew a great many things. Indeed too many things, at least according to his critics: “Eco knows everything there is to know and spews it in your face in the most blasé manner,” declared Pier Paolo Pasolini, “as if you were listening to a robot.” That line appears quoted in Tim… Continue Reading
Hidden Chrome Features That Will Make Your Life Easier
PC Magazine: “If search engines are our window to the internet, a web browser is the window frame. A good browser should support basic search functions, but the most popular choices act as their own operating system for accessing the web. However, no option has become more ubiquitous with online living than Google’s Chrome browser,… Continue Reading
How to activate and use Google Chat
The Verge: “Real-time collaborative chat, as exemplified by apps such as Slack, has become a common way to communicate between colleagues and friends, especially since last year when so many of us transitioned to working from home. Google has apparently taken note of this and is pitting itself against Slack by taking two of the… Continue Reading
Have we reached peak ransomware?
ZDNet – “How the internet’s biggest security problem has grown and what happens next. A string of high-profile cyberattacks has made ransomware an impossible issue to ignore – in fact, even world leaders are talking about it. Will this be enough to make cyber criminals think twice? Ransomware has become such a significant problem that… Continue Reading
UN – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger’
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, June 21 2021: “This document, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural World Heritage, contains information on the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. The World Heritage Committee is requested to review the reports on the state of conservation of properties… Continue Reading
Move over CRISPR, the retrons are coming
Wyss Institute, Harvard University: “While the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system has become the poster child for innovation in synthetic biology, it has some major limitations. CRISPR-Cas9 can be programmed to find and cut specific pieces of DNA, but editing the DNA to create desired mutations requires tricking the cell into using a new piece of… Continue Reading
Realtime Climate
“Climate Central launched this tool to help meteorologists and journalists cover connections between weather, news, and climate in real time, and to alert public and private organizations and individuals about particular local conditions related to climate change, its impacts, or its solutions. Realtime Climate monitors local weather and events across the U.S. and generates alerts when certain… Continue Reading
Citation Stickiness, Computer-Assisted Legal Research, and the Universe of Thinkable Thoughts
Kirschenfeld, Aaron and Chew, Alexa, Citation Stickiness, Computer-Assisted Legal Research, and the Universe of Thinkable Thoughts (April 19, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3860978 “Legal information has been available in widespread digital format for more than forty years. In that time, law librarians have wondered whether this digital switch has changed how law students and lawyers… Continue Reading
