Opening keynote address as delivered on April 4 by Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator as part of the First National Climate Assessment Federal Advisory Committee Meeting in Washington, DC. “In the U.S., climate-related changes are being documented: more frequent extreme weather events, longer growing seasons, shifting… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
News reports that federal grand jury is investigating mobile apps privacy
IDG News Service – “Pandora and possibly other makers of popular smartphone applications are being questioned by a federal grand jury about their privacy practices. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Pandora said that early this year it was served with a subpoena to produce documents in connection with… Continue Reading
Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the U. S
“This report – the eighteenth annual report – presents the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest estimates of emissions for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases. For this report, activity data on coal and natural gas consumption and electricity sales and losses by sector were obtained from the January 2011 Monthly Energy Review… Continue Reading
Transcript: Buying & Selling EContent'
Interview with Jim Jansen, Senior Fellow, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Recorded at Buying & Selling EContent Conference, For podcast release Tuesday, April 5, 2011 “..the ability to buy digital content online is critically important to a lot of people, a lot of businesses, a lot of artists, photographers, a whole gamut of people.… Continue Reading
Preventing Nuclear Meltdown: Assessing Regulatory Failure in Japan and the United States
Preventing Nuclear Meltdown: Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Veronika Penciakova, Research Assistant, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution “Many wonder whether Japans nuclear disaster could have been averted. The embattled operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), has borne the brunt of criticism; its numerous failures over… Continue Reading
Article: Disclosures Effects: Wikileaks and Transparency
Disclosures Effects: Wikileaks and Transparency, Mark Fenster University of Florida – Fredric G. Levin College of Law “Constitutional, criminal, and administrative laws regulating government transparency, and the theories that support them, rest on the assumption that the disclosure of information has transformative effects: disclosure can inform, enlighten, and energize the public, or it can create… Continue Reading
Mapping Global Food Spending (Infographic)
Civil Eats: “A one dollar bag of rice in the U.S. is not the same as a one dollar bag of rice in Indonesia. For an American, who, on average, devotes about seven percent of his or her spending to food, it wont matter that much if the price of rice doubles to two dollars.… Continue Reading
Paper – Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success
Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success, by James G. Neal – Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. “This paper is not a scientific study or a literature review or a reasoned analysis of the assessment literature on academic… Continue Reading
Legislative Victories from 2005 to 2010 Removing Youth from the Adult Criminal Justice System
State Trends: Legislative Victories from 2005 to 2010 – Removing Youth from the Adult Criminal Justice System, March 2011. “The consequences of an adult conviction arent minor; they are serious, long-term, life-threatening, and in some cases, deadly. However, awareness of the problem is not enough. Policymakers and the public must have viable alternative solutions. This… Continue Reading
Pneumatic thought-controlled prosthetic arm created by students
gizmag: “Two undergraduate students from Toronto’s Ryerson University have created a prosthetic arm that is controlled by its wearer’s brain signals, and powered by compressed air. Not only is the Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm said to offer a greater range of movement than traditional prostheses, but it also doesn’t require the amputee to undergo invasive… Continue Reading
Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing
Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing, Philip M. Davis, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York “Does free access to journal articles result in greater diffusion of scientific knowledge? Using a randomized controlled trial of open access publishing, involving 36 participating journals in the sciences, social sciences, and… Continue Reading
FBI Launches New Electronic Reading Room
“The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 2,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. Included here are more than 25 new files that have been released to the public but never added to this… Continue Reading
