Via 18F: “There are a lot of .gov domains: over 5,300 of them. About 1,300 of these are used by the federal government’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The rest are spread across states, territories, counties, cities, and native tribes. For a while now, the public has been able to download a dataset of the roughly… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Listing the African Lion Subspecies as Threatened
This Proposed Rule document was issued by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) For related information, Open Docket Folder Action Proposed rule and 12-month finding. Due Jan 27 2015. Summary – “We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a proposed rule and a 12-month finding on a petition to list the African lion (Panthera leo leo) as… Continue Reading
Independence for young millennials: moving out and boomeranging back
BLS Monthly Labor Review – “Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this article examines the process of household formation for young adults born between 1980 and 1984. The analysis finds that, by age 27, about 90 percent of these individuals had left their parental households at least once and more than… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Human Capital, Social Security Disability Benefits
Human Capital: OPM Needs to Better Analyze and Manage Dual Compensation Waiver Data, GAO-15-252: Published: Dec 29, 2014. Publicly Released: Jan 5, 2015. Social Security Disability Benefits: Agency Could Improve Oversight of Representatives Providing Disability Advocacy Services, GAO-15-62: Published: Dec 3, 2014. Publicly Released: Jan 5, 2015. Continue Reading
Want read-aloud in Kindles and other readers? Use FCC’s easy online form by Jan 9 2015
Update to my posting New on LLRX – Tell the FCC to Require Read-Aloud for Future Kindles and Other E Ink Devices – via author David Rothman – the most recent version of the LibraryCity post with mention of an unofficial January 9, 2015 deadline and a link to the FCC’s easy comment form. You need to submit formally. The… Continue Reading
FCC Chief to Bolster Internet for Schools
Circling back to an important story via NYT, November 17, 2014: “With a goal of fiber-optic lines reaching to every school and a Wi-Fi connection in every classroom, Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission…propose[ed] a 62 percent increase in the amount of money the agency spends annually to wire schools and libraries with high-speed… Continue Reading
When Fast Trading Looks Like Priced Noise
Chinco, Alexander and Ye, Mao, When Fast Trading Looks Like Priced Noise (January 2, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2544738 “Traders with different investment horizons value assets slightly differently. Motivated by this simple insight, we measure the amount of NYSE trading activity at horizons ranging from 1-minute to 1-month long. We find that the… Continue Reading
What We Know About Inequality (in 14 Charts) – WSJ
“If any one theme dominated economic policy debates and research over the past year, it was income inequality. The debate was kicked into high gear when French economist Thomas Piketty‘s book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” became a runaway best seller. (It’s not clear how many people who bought the book actually read much of it.) When President… Continue Reading
Half of online Americans don’t know what a privacy policy is
Pew – Aaron Smith – What Is a Privacy Policy: Research by “Joseph Turow [who studies digital marketing and privacy issues at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication] …also suggests that ordinary users don’t fully understand the scope of the data that is being collected on them — or how small amounts of data can… Continue Reading
Arrival of the Fukushima radioactivity plume in North American continental waters
John N. Smith, Robin M. Brown, William J. Williams, Marie Robert, Richard Nelson, and S. Bradley Moran. Arrival of the Fukushima radioactivity plume in North American continental waters. PNAS 2014 : 1412814112v1-201412814. “The large discharge of radioactivity into the northwest Pacific Ocean from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor accident has generated considerable concern about the spread of… Continue Reading
Evolutionary timescale of life
“TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. A search utility allows exploration of the thousands of divergence times among organisms in the published literature. A tree-based (hierarchical) system is used to identify all published molecular time estimates bearing on the divergence of two chosen taxa, such as species, compute… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Tell the FCC to Require Read-Aloud for Future Kindles and Other E Ink Devices
Via LLRX.com – Tell the FCC to Require Read-Aloud for Future Kindles and Other E Ink Devices – David H. Rothman calls attention to a pivotal upcoming event for readers everywhere: On Jan. 28, 2015 if the Federal Communications Commission makes the right choice and sticks to its past inclinations, a regulatory waiver will expire. The waiver has… Continue Reading
