Outside: “The days of regular “river fires” in America may be long gone, but that doesn’t mean the country’s waterways are clean. In its last nation-wide survey, the EPA found that more than half the US’s rivers are in “poor condition” and too polluted to adequately support marine life. “America’s streams and rivers,” the EPA… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2017
April is National Letter Writing Month
A shout out for cards, letters, notes, updates, greetings – all written by hand and sent via USPS please. Go ahead, write to your friends, colleagues, partners, family, co-workers, and all the librarians you know and love of course – thank you. Continue Reading
Search Database of Millions of Previously Classified Documents on Industrial Poisons
“Columbia University’s Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, located at its Mailman School of Public Health, and the City University of New York’s Graduate Center are proud to jointly present Toxic Docs. This dataset and website contain millions of pages of previously secret documents about toxic substances. They include secret internal memoranda,… Continue Reading
Digital project makes gifs out of beautiful images from Bodleian
And now for something completely different, old is new again! Adam Koszary manages the Arts Council England ‘digital project thing’ between Reading Museum and the Museum of English Rural Life – From his article: “I spent just over a year at the Bodleian being sassy on social media and making GIFs out of centuries-old collections.… Continue Reading
Because each and every person shot at school, on the street, at work should not be forgotten
“A decade ago, Kristina Anderson was shot while in her French class at Virginia Tech, during a morning when a troubled student killed 32 people and wounded 17. Now 29 years old, she has found a way to reshape the meaning of that day, for others as well as for herself…On April 16, 2007, a… Continue Reading
Morning Consult survey ranking America’s most and least popular governors and senators
America’s Most Unpopular and Popular Governor – More than 85,000 registered voters across America evaluated the job performance of their governors from from January 2017 through March 2017 to determine the latest rankings – (Full Methodology) Continue Reading
90 Active Blogs on Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning
Thuy T. Pham, U. of Sydney. “This post updates a previous very popular post 100 Active Blogs on Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning as of March 2016 (and 90+ blogs, 2015 version). This year we removed 26 blog sites from the previous list that does not meet our active criterion: at… Continue Reading
Federal Tax Returns: Latest Rankings by County, State and More
“For many years, the county with the highest adjusted gross income per federal tax return payer was found in glossy locations such as Teton County, Wyoming, Fairfield County, Connecticut and New York Country, N.Y. But for the latest available tax year – returns filed during 2015 — the top ranking county in the nation according… Continue Reading
Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Jacobi, Tonja and Schweers, Dylan, Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments (March 14, 2017). Virginia Law Review, Forthcoming; Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-03. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2933016 “Oral arguments at the Supreme Court are important—they affect case outcomes and constitute the only opportunity for… Continue Reading
IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2017
World Economic Outlook 2017 – “Emerging market and developing economies have become increasingly important in the global economy in recent years. They now account for more than 75 percent of global growth in output and consumption, almost double the share of just two decades ago. The external environment has been important for this transformation. Terms… Continue Reading
The 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook
CBO – “At 77 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), federal debt held by the public is now at its highest level since shortly after World War II. If current laws generally remained unchanged, the Congressional Budget Office projects, growing budget deficits would boost that debt sharply over the next 30 years; it would reach… Continue Reading
Structured Management Practices at U.S. Manufacturing Establishments
“Manufacturing establishments in the South and Midwest utilize more structured management practices than their counterparts in the Northeast and West, according to new results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Management and Organizational Practices Survey. Structured management practices in the South and Midwest received the highest scores of 0.568 and 0.556, respectively. The West followed with… Continue Reading
