The Economist “…of the 6.3bn tonnes of plastic waste produced since the 1950s only 9% has been recycled and another 12% incinerated. The rest has been dumped in landfills or the natural environment. Often, as with disposable coffee cups, drinks bottles, sweet wrappers and other packets that account for much of the plastic produced in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
TSA Tests See-Through Scanners on Public in New York’s Penn Station
ACLU: “The TSA and Amtrak Police are trying out new see-through body scanners in New York City’s Penn Station that raise serious constitutional questions. And as is so often the case, the government is not being sufficiently transparent about the devices, how they will be used, on whom, and where they will eventually be deployed.… Continue Reading
SCOTUS Clarifies Scope Of Whistleblower Protections Under Dodd-Frank
JDSupra – “On February 21, 2018, in the case of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, the United States Supreme Court unanimously decided that employees who raise internal complaints about possible violation of securities laws are not protected as whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act. To obtain protection from retaliatory measures undertaken by their employers, employees must… Continue Reading
TLS brings you a wide-ranging – “esoteric yet solid” – weekly podcast on books and ideas
The times Literary supplement – The leading international weekly for literary culture. Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s question, “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”, the TLS brings you a wide-ranging – “esoteric yet solid” – weekly podcast on books and ideas Continue Reading
Librarians digitally archive rare White House images
Via Charlie Amiot, J.D.: “One of this week’s ALA ALDirect e-newsletter highlighted a Feb. 24, 2018 CNN article, Librarians digitally archive rare White House images by Betsy Kline. A team of librarians working for the White House Historical Association have been digitizing archives of uncatalogued slides from White House history, most of which haven’t been… Continue Reading
America’s Most Toxic Town Is Not Where You Think
A small city in remote Alaska is working to reduce contamination from the nearby Red Dog Mine: “…The village has long had issues with the mine. Ore from Red Dog is transported by eighty-ton haul trucks along a 50-mile road that links the mine to a port on the Chukchi Sea south of Kivalina. There… Continue Reading
Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration
Rolling Stone: Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year. It could soon reshape the nation. “In 2017, a string of climate disasters – six big hurricanes in the Atlantic, wildfires in the West, horrific mudslides, high-temperature records breaking all over the country – caused $306… Continue Reading
Metropolitan Museum – 5 decades of free publications to download and read
Met Publications – 5 decades of Met publications on art history, available to read, download, and/or search for free. “MetPublications is a portal to The Met’s comprehensive publishing program with over 1,500 titles, including books, online publications, and Bulletins and Journals from the last five decades. MetPublications includes a description and table of contents for… Continue Reading
Court Messaging Project
“The Court Messaging Project (now called Wise Messenger) is an open-source initiative from Stanford’s Legal Design Lab, to build an out-of-the-box tool for any court or legal services group to send automated messages to their clients. The overarching goal of the project is to make the court system more navigable and to improve people’s sense… Continue Reading
Pew – Sources Shared on Twitter: A Case Study on Immigration
An analysis of 9.7 million tweets reveals that news organizations played the largest role in which content was linked to compared with other information providers. “As news organizations battle charges of “fake news,” compete with alternate sources of information, and face low levels of trust from a skeptical public, a new Pew Research Center study… Continue Reading
Pew – The Generation Gap in American Politics
“Generational differences have long been a factor in U.S. politics. These divisions are now as wide as they have been in decades, with the potential to shape politics well into the future. From immigration and race to foreign policy and the scope of government, two younger generations, Millennials and Gen Xers, stand apart from the… Continue Reading
Pew – Social Media Use in 2018
A majority of Americans use Facebook and YouTube, but young adults are especially heavy users of Snapchat and Instagram: “A new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults finds that the social media landscape in early 2018 is defined by a mix of long-standing trends and newly emerging narratives. Facebook and YouTube dominate this landscape,… Continue Reading
