Washington Post – Here are the charges against Trump and what they mean LawFare: “A grand jury in South Florida has reportedly indicted former President Donald Trump in connection with the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation. The indictment is under seal, but it apparently includes seven counts involving improper retention of classified material and conspiracy to obstruct… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2023
What City Birds Around the World Have in Common
The Revelator – How a study of so-called “trash birds” revealed conservation clues for urban species. “Why do some bird species seem to flourish alongside humans, eating our crumbs and nesting in our backyards, while others prefer to live as far as possible from dense human populations? Researcher Monte Neate-Clegg first began to ponder that… Continue Reading
ProPublica Adds More Than a Million New Records to Nonprofit Explorer
“The IRS finally resolved its delay in publishing new nonprofit tax records, and we’ve added them to our database. ProPublica has added more than a million new tax records for tax-exempt organizations to Nonprofit Explorer, making it easier to assess the finances of charities operating across the nation. The update includes more than 900,000 filings… Continue Reading
New Website Maps Out 32,000 Infrastructure Projects
White House Launches Invest.gov, Highlights Record Public and Private Investment in Communities Under President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda: “..the White House launched Invest.gov, a new website showing the historic public and private sector investments President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is bringing to states and territories across America. Invest.gov features an interactive map showing infrastructure… Continue Reading
Global greenhouse gas emissions at all-time high, study finds
The Guardian – Scientists say world is burning through ‘carbon budget’ that can be emitted while staying below 1.5C: “Greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, threatening to push the world into “unprecedented” levels of global heating, scientists have warned. The world is rapidly running out of “carbon budget”, the amount of carbon dioxide… Continue Reading
Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, 1945‑46
Stanford Libraries: “The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, 1945-46 archival collection provides access to a digital version of Nuremberg IMT courtroom proceedings and documentation, including evidentiary films, full audio recordings of the proceedings, and approximately 250,000 pages of digitized paper documents. These documents include transcripts of the hearings in English,… Continue Reading
Standards and the Law
Coglianese, Cary, Standards and the Law (May 13, 2023). Standardization: Journal of Research and Innovation, Vol. 2, no. 2, p. 15, 2023, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 23-18, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4452726 “The world of standards and the world of laws are often seen as separate, but they are more… Continue Reading
The effect of safety attire on perceptions of cyclist dehumanisation
Elsevier – Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, Volume 95, May 2023, Pages 494-509 . The effect of safety attire on perceptions of cyclist dehumanisation [full text – no fee] 30 % of respondents (n = 563) considered cyclists less than fully human.’ Cyclists with helmets were perceived as less human compared to… Continue Reading
Ingenious librarians
Aeon – “A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it..It’s easy to see why librarians of the 1970s set out to revolutionise search. Work across the academy was expanding to such a degree that, soon, there would not be enough human librarians to… Continue Reading
Full Fact
“False or misleading claims affect us all. As fact checkers we’ve seen first hand how bad information promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. We deserve better. Full Fact (UK) fights for the right information to reach the people who need it most, whether that’s individuals making decisions about their health or who to… Continue Reading
GPO NOAA
“U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library is working to add more than 47,000 unique items published by NOAA authors and grantees to the National Collection of U.S. Government Public Information. GPO shares NOAA’s goal of providing additional avenues to access Government research and making… Continue Reading
ABA issues ethics guidance for lawyer’s use of legal assistants
“The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released a formal opinion today that provides guidance for how a lawyer might use a legal assistant to perform client intake tasks under ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Formal Opinion 506 points to Model Rule 5.3, which relates to managing and supervising, and… Continue Reading
