ABA Journal, Lorelei Laird – “The ABA’s Resolution 109 has attracted a lot of controversy outside the organization. The measure makes it a violation of professional responsibility to discriminate or harass in conduct related to the practice of law. It attracted coverage from the New York Times DealBook blog and condemnation from politically conservative attorneys,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
The 2015-2016 Zika Outbreak
Kaiser Family Foundation: “This infographic offers key facts about the Zika virus, tracks the increasing number of countries reporting local transmission over the past year, and breaks down how key U.S. government agencies are responding to Zika.” Download PDF: The 2015-2016 Zika Outbreak (Updated August 11, 2016) Continue Reading
McKinsey – Policy in the data age
Policy in the data age: Data enablement for the common good By Karim Tadjeddine and Martin Lundqvist “The tremendous impact that digital services have had on governments and society has been the subject of extensive research that has documented the rapid, extensive adoption of public-sector digital services around the globe. We believe that the coming… Continue Reading
Paper – Adherence to a Mediterranean-Style Diet and Effects on Cognition in Adults
Adherence to a Mediterranean-Style Diet and Effects on Cognition in Adults: A Qualitative Evaluation and Systematic Review of Longitudinal and Prospective Trials. Roy J. Hardman, Greg Kennedy, Helen Macpherson, Andrew B. Scholey and Andrew Pipingas. Frontiers in Nutrition, vol. 3, page 22 -, 2016. DOI 10.3389/fnut.2016.00022. “The Mediterranean-style diet (MedDiet) involves substantial intake of fruits,… Continue Reading
Explore ongoing history of human civilization through research and data visualization
“OurWorldInData is an online publication that shows how living conditions around the world are changing. It communicates this empirical knowledge through interactive data visualisations (charts and maps) and by presenting the research findings on global development that explain what drives the changes that we see and what the consequences of these changes are. The publication… Continue Reading
Friending the Privacy Regulators
McGeveran, William, Friending the Privacy Regulators (August 5, 2016). 58 Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming; Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-26. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2820683 “According to conventional wisdom, data privacy regulators in the European Union are unreasonably demanding, while their American counterparts are laughably lax. Many observers further assume that any privacy… Continue Reading
NIST Updates Personal Identity Verification Guid
“NIST has recently expanded the flexibility and enhanced the security of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials by updating the following guidelines: • Special Publication (SP) 800-156, Representation of PIV Chain-of-Trust for Import and Export, provides details regarding the use of chain -of -trust for import and export among PIV Card issuers. • SP 800-166, Derived… Continue Reading
A record 60.6 million Americans live in multigenerational households
“The number and share of Americans living in multigenerational family households has continued to rise, even though the Great Recession is now in the rear-view mirror. In 2014, a record 60.6 million people, or 19% of the U.S. population, lived with multiple generations under one roof, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of… Continue Reading
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
New York Times Magazine: “In a first for the magazine, the issue is devoted entirely to one 40,000 word story entitled ‘Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart’ by contributing writer Scott Anderson, with photographs by Paolo Pellegrin. Anderson argues that the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the U.S. set the wheels in motion… Continue Reading
Printable USGS PDF Quads A Quick, Easy, Free way to Download any Quad in the Country
“National Geographic has built an easy to use web interface that allows anyone to quickly find any quad in the country for downloading and printing. Each quad has been pre-processed to print on a standard home, letter size printer. These are the same quads that were printed by USGS for decades on giant bus-sized pressed… Continue Reading
WSJ – Parts of America Most Vulnerable to China
Some areas of the U.S. were hit especially hard by China’s rise, partly because those areas had lots of jobs in industries where imports surged the most. Continue Reading
Pay It Forward Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions
University of California Libraries, June 30, 2016, Revised July 18, 2016. Pay It Forward Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open Access Article Processing Charges for Large North American Research Institutions “As the global open access movement continues to grow and evolve, the question of whether a wholesale shift of the scholarly journal publishing system to… Continue Reading
