New release: “The country’s energy infrastructure is not ready to weather the storm of more frequent extreme weather. A new National Wildlife Federation (NWF) report delivers that finding and makes recommendations for improving energy reliability. NWF climate scientist Dr. Amanda Staudt says floods, intense storms, hurricanes, droughts and heat waves have been happening more frequently,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Commentary: The New Geopolitics of Food
From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars, by Lester R. Brown| Foreign Policy, MAY/JUNE 2011 “In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between a $2… Continue Reading
Applying Dispute System Design Theory to Create a Foreclosure Mediation System
Schneider, Andrea Kupfer and Fleury, Natalie, There’s No Place Like Home: Applying Dispute System Design Theory to Create a Foreclosure Mediation System (April 21, 2011). Nevada Law Review, Forthcoming. “This article analyzes the theory of dispute system design when put into action to meet a current economic crisis. In partnership with the City of Milwaukee,… Continue Reading
'HTTPS Now' Campaign Urges Users to Take an Active Role in Protecting Internet Security
News release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Access have launched an international campaign for HTTPS Now, rallying consumers around the world to help us make web surfing safer. HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) protects web surfing by encrypting requests from a user’s browser and the resulting pages that are displayed, but many websites default… Continue Reading
NYT/NPR: The Guantanamo Docket
The Guantanamo Docket – Documents and research related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002. Related Coverage From the Times Overview Detainees Transfer Countries Citizenship Timeline About Continue Reading
In Praise of Vagueness: Malleability of Vague Information as a Performance-Booster
Mishra, Himanshu, Mishra, Arul and Shiv, Baba, In Praise of Vagueness: Malleability of Vague Information as a Performance-Booster (October 14, 2010). Psychological Science, Forthcoming. “Is the eternal quest for precise information always worthwhile? This research suggests that at times vagueness has its merits. Previous research has demonstrated that people choose precise (over vague) information because… Continue Reading
Review article: Debt Markets During the Crisis
Debt Markets During the Crisis Failure to see the big picture led to a breakdown, Based on the Research of Arvind Krishnamurthy “The financial crisis that provoked the Great Recession had severe effects on debt markets, including the corporate bond and mortgage-backed securities markets. The effects included a huge premium on liquidity, the loss of… Continue Reading
Dutch Data Protection Authority issues several administrative orders against Google
News release: “[April 19, 2011], the Dutch Data Protection Authority (College bescherming persoonsgegevens, CBP) has issued several administrative orders against Google for incremental penalty payments. Investigations by the CBP show that Google has, for a period of two years, systematically, and without the data subjects knowledge, collected MAC addresses of more than 3,6 million WiFi… Continue Reading
2010 Census Advance Group Quarters Summary File
“The Census Bureau, in response to federal and state officials as well as other data users, is providing an early version of table P42 from the 2010 Census Summary File 1, showing population counts for seven types of group quarters. The institutionalized group quarters categories include correctional facilities for adults, juvenile facilities, nursing facilities/skilled-nursing facilities… Continue Reading
BJS: Jail Inmates at Midyear 2010 – Statistical Tables
Jail Inmates at Midyear 2010 – Statistical Tables, Todd D. Minton, April 14, 2011 NCJ 233431 “Presents data on numbers of jails as well as analyzes patterns of growth and decline in jail populations. These statistical tables include data on rated capacity of jails, percent of capacity occupied, and capacity added. They provide estimates of… Continue Reading
GeoEVSE Forum: government-industry collaboration committed to establishing a repository of public electric vehicle supply equipment
DOE: The GeoEVSE Forum is a government-industry collaboration committed to establishing a repository of public electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) location data for use by consumers and industry. A network of public charging stations, or EVSE, gives plug-in electric vehicle drivers alternatives to home charging and can extend driving range. Recognizing that these drivers need… Continue Reading
Report on Major Outage Impacting Cloud Computing Services
NYT: “As technical problems interrupted computer services provided by Amazon for a second day on Friday, industry analysts said the troubles would prompt many companies to reconsider relying on remote computers beyond their control…Amazon set up a side business five years ago offering computing resources to businesses from its network of sophisticated data centers. Today,… Continue Reading
