Frans De Waal: “How do you give a chimpor an elephant or an octopus or a horsean IQ test? It may sound like the setup to a joke, but it is actually one of the thorniest questions facing science today. Over the past decade, researchers on animal cognition have come up with some ingenious solutions… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2013
2012 Report of the U.S. Government for Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative
News release: “Over the last 13 years, governments, major multinational corporations, and non-governmental organizations have worked together in the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Initiative, in an effort to make sure that when companies extract resources in some of the most difficult places on earth, they take tangible steps to minimize the risk… Continue Reading
OECD releases first comprehensive guidelines on measuring subjective well-being
“Newly released Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being establish the first comprehensive framework for internationally comparable and intellectually robust data on this topic. These Guidelines provide advice on the collection and use of measures of subjective well-being, and will allow statisticians and researchers to better measure how individuals evaluate and experience their lives. The Guidelines, developed… Continue Reading
The Dispositif of Risk Management: Reconstructing Risk Management after the Financial Crisis
Huber, Christian and Scheytt, Tobias, The Dispositif of Risk Management: Reconstructing Risk Management after the Financial Crisis (March 23, 2013). Management Accounting Research, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN “Despite its dubious role during the global financial crisis of 2008, risk management has continued its expansion. This paper addresses the question why risk management, in the face… Continue Reading
Brookings Report – What Americans Want From Immigration Reform
Citizens, Values and Cultural Concerns: What Americans Want from Immigration Reform, “authored by PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones, PRRI Research Director Daniel Cox, and PRRI Research Associate Juhem Navarro-Rivera, along with Brookings Senior Fellows E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William Galston, explores general sentiment toward immigrant communities, opinions on the impact that immigrants have on American… Continue Reading
UK – House of Lords revised open access policy and guidance
News release: “The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has written to Research Councils UK welcoming the publication of its revised open access policy but calling for three further changes to the policy to ensure that there is absolute clarity. Letter from the Chairman Lord Krebs to RCUK, 20 March 2013 The Committees letter… Continue Reading
Paper – Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime
Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, University of Tennessee College of Law. January 20, 2013, via SSRN “Though extensive due process protections apply to the investigation of crimes, and to criminal trials, perhaps the most important part of the criminal process — the decision whether to charge a… Continue Reading
The Wealth Report 2013: Examining High Net Worth Individuals from around the world
Worlds wealthy set to grow by 50% in the next decade: “London and New York remain the top destinations for the worlds ultra-high net worth individuals to live and invest in but Asian cities are fast catching up, says Knight Franks seventh annual Wealth Report. Key Findings: The global number of High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs is… Continue Reading
UK – Her Majesty's Treasury – Budget 2013 documents
“Budget 2013 – The Governments objective is to equip the UK to succeed in the global race, build a stronger economy and a fairer society and to support aspiration. This Budget will help those who aspire to work hard and get on, care for their families, buy a home, start or grow a business and… Continue Reading
Commentary – Books arent dead yet
Self-publishing fans and the tech-obsessed keep getting it wrong: Big authors want to be in print — and bookstores, by Laura Miller “Youve probably read that bookstores, like traditional book publishers, are in trouble. They are, especially if theyre big, overextended, relatively impersonal chain stores like Barnes & Noble. But, as the Christian Science Monitor… Continue Reading
The Economist: Google's Google problem
“Google is killing Google Reader…What Google has actually done is create a powerful infrastructure. The shape of that infrastructure influences everything that goes online. And it influences the allocation of mental resources of everyone who interacts with the online world. But there isn’t much to the real human world that isn’t shaped by the mental… Continue Reading
Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook
Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook Posted: 03/22/2013 6:07 pm EST | Updated: 03/22/2013 11:29 pm EST: “The Huffington Post compiled news reports of gun-related homicides and accidental deaths in the U.S. since the massacre in Newtown, Conn. on the morning of Dec. 14.” [Note: there have been 2,243 Americans killed with guns… Continue Reading
