“The Bob Dylan Archive highlights the unique artistry and worldwide cultural significance of Bob Dylan. Housed at The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American Research, the archive includes decades of never-before-seen handwritten manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence; films, videos, photographs and artwork; memorabilia; personal documents; unrecorded song lyrics and chords….The Bob Dylan Archive, comprised of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
The Death of Justice Scalia: Procedural Issues Arising on an Eight-Member Supreme Court
CRS report via FAS – The Death of Justice Scalia: Procedural Issues Arising on an Eight-Member Supreme Court – Andrew Nolan, Legislative Attorney, February 25, 2016. “On February 13, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly passed away at the age of 79, vacating a seat on the Supreme Court that he had held for nearly 30… Continue Reading
WSJ graphic identifies huge disparity in incomes of Americans
WSJ.com – What Percent Are You? A detailed look at where you fit in our vast nation of income-earners…”here’s a more detailed look at where you fit in our vast nation of income-earners.” Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Cognitive Reality and the Administration of Justice
Via LLRX.com – Cognitive Reality and the Administration of Justice – Ken Strutin writes in his latest article as follows, “science has much to say about how individual behavior and group wide phenomena influence the core issues of criminal justice. From self-incrimination to self-representation, from prosecuting to judging, from trial to punishment the law recognizes… Continue Reading
NY Judge issues ruling in drug case involving unlocking iPhone
EFF: “Apple cannot be compelled to bypass the lock screen on an iPhone seized by the government in a New York drug case, according an order issued today by magistrate Judge James Orenstein. It’s a significant rejection of the government’s interpretation of the All Writs Act, which prosecutors have advanced in multiple jurisdictions across the… Continue Reading
FTC Releases Annual Summary of Consumer Complaints
News release: “Debt collection, identity theft and imposter scams were the most common categories of consumer complaints received by the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network in 2015, according to the agency’s new data book. While debt collection complaints rose to the top spot among complaint categories, the report notes that this was due in… Continue Reading
News that Snapchat receives eight billion views per day
Re/Code: “News broke in early January that Snapchat users were racking up seven billion video views per day. That number is now at eight billion, according to a source who heard Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel speak with bankers and analysts Monday afternoon at Morgan Stanley’s Tech, Media & Telecom conference in San Francisco. Snapchat was… Continue Reading
ODNI – Bin Laden’s Bookshelf
ODNI Public Affairs: “Osama bin Laden’s handwritten will left millions for jihad. But even in the period shortly before his death, bin Laden placed the utmost importance on portraying his fraying organization as a united enterprise—while his lieutenants privately wrestled with their growing schism from al- Qa’ida in Iraq. As the tenth anniversary of the… Continue Reading
Paper – Rethinking Armageddon
Center for Strategic and Budget Assessment – includes link to the paper and the slides: “The First Nuclear Age was characterized by the Cold War era bipolar international system and a corresponding bipolar nuclear competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. While a few other states, such as Great Britain and France, also… Continue Reading
Research Shows Retirement Plan Participants’ Commitment to Saving
Investment Company Institute: “Americans continue saving for retirement through defined contribution (DC) plans, according to ICI’s latest study of retirement plan savers’ actions. The study, “Defined Contribution Plan Participants’ Activities, First Three Quarters of 2015,” includes data from January through September 2015 and is based on DC plan recordkeeper data covering more than 26 million… Continue Reading
PwC – Losses rise as cybercrime expands to encompass economic crime
PwC Global Economic Crime Survey 2016: “More than one in three organisations (36%) experienced economic crime in the last two years, with cybercrime affecting almost a third (32%), the highest ever level in PwC’s biennial survey of Global Economic Crime. The PwC Global Economic Crime Survey 2016 interviewed over 6000 participants in 115 countries. Despite… Continue Reading
Astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted 1,000 photos during his year in space
“Windows on Earth is an educational project that features photographs taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. Astronauts take hundreds of photos each day, for science research, education and public outreach. The photos are often dramatic, and help us all appreciate home planet Earth. This web site provides free public access to virtually all… Continue Reading
