April 2013 – Preventing Repeat Teen Births: “Although teen birth rates have been falling for the last two decades, more than 365,000 teens, ages 1519, gave birth in 2010. Teen pregnancy and childbearing can carry high health, emotional, social, and financial costs for both teen mothers and their children. Teen mothers want to do their… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Commentary / Pew – The First Cell Phone Call
Commentary: Mobile The First Cell Phone Call: Excerpt from Networked: The New Social Operating System by Joanna Brenner, Apr 3, 2013 “April 3, 1973 (40 years ago today): The first cell phone call was made on a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x (http://qz.com/70309/the-first-mobile-phone-call-was-made-40-years-ago-today/), by Martin Cooper. Fast forward to April 3,… Continue Reading
EPIC: EU Takes Action Against Google for Privacy Policy Meltdown
EPIC: “Data protection agencies in six European countries have announced enforcement actions against Google. The agencies acted after Google ignored recommendations to comply with European data protection law. “It is now up to each national data protection authority to carry out further investigations according to the provisions of its national law transposing European legislation,” the… Continue Reading
NOAA, partners: Thin, low Arctic clouds played an important role in the massive 2012 Greenland ice melt
News release: “Clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were just right for driving surface temperatures there above the melting point, according to a new study by scientists at NOAA and the Universities of Wisconsin, Idaho and Colorado. The study, published today in Nature, found that thin, low-lying clouds allowed the suns energy… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board approves final rule establishing requirements for determining when a company is "predominantly engaged in financial activities"
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced approval of a final rule that establishes the requirements for determining when a company is “predominantly engaged in financial activities.” The requirements will be used by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) when it considers the potential designation of a nonbank financial company for consolidated supervision… Continue Reading
FTC Warns Data Brokers That Provide Tenant Rental Histories They May Be Subject to Fair Credit Reporting Act
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has warned the operators of six websites that share information about consumers rental histories with landlords that they may be subject to the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The letters inform the recipients that if they meet certain criteria, namely collecting information on tenants and their… Continue Reading
FireEye Advanced Threat Report 2H 2012
“This report provides a detailed, current look at the nature of advanced threats targeting organizations today. Drawing on data gathered by FireEye® from several thousands of appliances at customer sites around the world, across 89 million events, this report provides an overview of the current threat landscape, evolving advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics, and the… Continue Reading
Intersections between scholarly communication and information literacy
Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy [ALA] – Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment. Goal and Structure of the Paper: “In this whitepaper we present a case for exploring and articulating the intersections between scholarly communication and information literacy. We argue that these point to areas of strategic realignment of the roles… Continue Reading
Research – The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books
The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books, Alberto Acerbi; Vasileios Lampos; Philip Garnett; R. Alexander Bentley “We report here trends in the usage of mood words, that is, words carrying emotional content, in 20th century English language books, using the data set provided by Google that includes word frequencies in roughly 4% of all… Continue Reading
Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families
“As of December 2012, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in Iraq have resulted in the deployment of about 2.2 million troops; there have been 2,222 US fatalities in OEF and Operation New Dawn (OND)1 and 4,422 in OIF. The numbers of wounded US troops exceed 16,000 in Afghanistan and… Continue Reading
UK government has published its annual report on work to protect the UK from terrorism
Protecting the public from terrorism: “Responding to the threat from terrorism remains a top priority, the Home Secretary said today. Publishing the annual report for CONTEST, the governments strategy for countering terrorism, the Home Secretary set out what has been done to keep the country safe and prevent terror attacks, including during the Olympics.” Continue Reading
Review of the Department of Labor's Site Exposure Matrix Database
“In response to the concerns expressed by workers and their representatives, DOL asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review the SEM database and its use of a particular database, Haz-Map, as the source of its toxic substance-occupational disease links. Accordingly, this IOM consensus report reflects careful consideration of its charge by the committee, and… Continue Reading
