Jensen, Michael C., Integrity: Without it Nothing Works (April 6, 2014). Rotman Magazine: The Magazine of the Rotman School of Management, pp. 16-20, Fall 2009; Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-042; Barbados Group Working Paper No. 09-04; Simon School Working Paper No. FR 10-01. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1511274 – “Note: This paper… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Poynter – News researchers lead on big stories
David Beard: “This era’s great journalistic diggers include Julie Tate, Kitty Bennett, Alice Crites, Margot Williams and Sheelagh McNeill. Often underappreciated and not as visible as TV-familiar leading journalists, these news researchers and others have been the bane of Rob Porter and Judge Roy Moore in recent months, finding key documents and evidence that led… Continue Reading
World’s biggest city database shines light on our increasingly urbanised planet
Eu Joint Research Center: “The JRC has launched a new tool with data on all 10,000 urban centres scattered across the globe. It is the largest and most comprehensive database on cities ever published. With data derived from the JRC’s Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL), researchers have discovered that the world has become even more… Continue Reading
WaPo – President Trump made 2,140 false or misleading claims in his first year
In the 21st century it has become increasingly critical for every individual to continuously seek out the facts and readily identify them from false and/or misleading information, stories, narratives, and speech, regardless of the person groups or entities that propagate speech that is is predicated on lies. The challenge of accomplishing this goal has ramped… Continue Reading
Leonardo da Vinci Hid Invisible Drawings in His Sketches
ArtNetNews: Now High-Tech Scanners Have Brought Them to Light “Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing,” which will appear across the UK in 2019, has some surprises. “To mark the 500th anniversary of the Leonardo da Vinci‘s death, a collection of his drawings are going on a UK tour next year. But if you think… Continue Reading
Women in Congress 1917-2018: Service Dates and Committee Assignments by Member, and Lists by State and Congress
CRS Report via FAS – Women in Congress 1917-2018: Service Dates and Committee Assignments by Member, and Lists by State and Congress. February 6, 2018. “In total, 327 women have been elected or appointed to Congress, 212 Democrats and 115 Republicans. These figures include six non-voting Delegates, one each from Guam, Hawaii, the District of… Continue Reading
Dow Jones – 100 Year Historical Chart
Macrotrends: “Interactive chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index for the last 100 years. Historical data is inflation-adjusted using the headline CPI and each data point represents the month-end closing value. The current month is updated on an hourly basis with today’s latest value. The current price of the Dow Jones Industrial… Continue Reading
Crowdsourcing Judgments of News Source Quality
Pennycook, Gordon and Rand, David G., Crowdsourcing Judgments of News Source Quality (February 7, 2018). Available at SSRN “The spread of misinformation and disinformation, especially on social media, is a major societal challenge. Here, we assess whether crowdsourced ratings of trust in news sources can effectively differentiate between more and less reliable sources. To do… Continue Reading
FCW – White House looks to cut workforce, civilian-side funding
Federal computer Week: “…In its proposal, the White House terms the current civil service system “a relic of an earlier era,” and calls the laws and regulations surrounding hiring, pay, performance management and retirement “complex and outdated.” One of the proposed reforms to the civil service includes a pay freeze for civilian employees in 2019;… Continue Reading
Report – The Alt-Right is Killing People
In this article – “The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) counted over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called “alt-right” — a movement that continues to access the mainstream and reach young recruits,” by Keegan Hankes and Alex Amend. The Killings Started in California 2017: A Year of Alt-Right Violence… Continue Reading
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He’s Worried About An Information Apocalypse.
BuzzFeedNews- What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?” technologist Aviv Ovadya warns: “For Ovadya — now the chief technologist for the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Media Responsibility and a Knight News innovation fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism… Continue Reading
President’s Budget FY19 and associated documents
Addendum to the President’s FY19 Budget to Account for the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 An American Budget – President’s Budget FY 2019 Major Savings and Reforms Mid-Session Review FY 2018 Analytical Perspectives Appendix Historical Tables Supplemental Materials Fact Sheets Supplementals, Amendments, and Releases Past President’s Budgets See also Politico – “The White House released… Continue Reading
