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Early Spring has widespread ramifications – gardens, farms, wildlife.

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Amid Winter Blooms, Wondering What That Means for Spring

  • “One concern with premature flowers is pollination. While honeybees were in evidence at the New York Botanical Garden, there were fewer at the United States Botanic Garden. “When plants get in this off-kilter blooming, sometimes it doesn’t coincide with the life cycle of the pollinator,” Ms. Shimizu said. “If pollination doesn’t occur, then we don’t get the fruit production.” …“If this becomes the new normal, then we have to change the way we think about the plants we use and how we protect them.”
  • See also related postings on climate change

    • Report – Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality

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    Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality – New Report and Infographic, the Berkman Center, by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik, & Ashley Lee. “Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age… Continue Reading

    Pew – Most users choose restricted privacy settings while profile "pruning" and unfriending people is on rise

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    Privacy management on social media sites, by Mary Madden, Feb 24, 2012 “Social network users are becoming more active in pruning and managing their accounts. Women and younger users tend to unfriend more than others. About two-thirds of internet users use social networking sites (SNS) and all the major metrics for profile management are up,… Continue Reading

    BLS: Mass layoffs in January 2012

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    Mass Layoffs — January 2012 [Each mass layoff involved at least 50 workers from a single employer.] “Employers took 1,434 mass layoff actions in January involving 129,920 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month. Mass layoff events in January 2012 increased by 50 from December 2011, while… Continue Reading

    Paper – Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses

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    A License is Not a ‘Contract Not to Sue’: Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses – Christopher M. Newman, George Mason University School of Law, February 24, 2012, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-23 “The assertion that a “license” is simply a “contract not to sue” has become… Continue Reading

    SF Federal Reserve: Do People Understand Monetary Policy?

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    Do People Understand Monetary Policy? Carlos Carvalho, PUC-Rio and Fernanda Nechio, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, January 2012 “We combine questions from the Michigan Survey about the future path of prices, interest rates, and unemployment to investigate whether U.S. households are aware of the so-called Taylor (1993) rule. For comparison, we perform the same… Continue Reading