The New York Times: “A group of Honduran migrants traveling through Mexico toward the United States has attracted enormous amounts of attention in recent days, including a litany of false, misleading and unproven statements circulating on social media. Some of this misinformation has been fueled by statements from officials in the United States, including President… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2018
A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry
A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry – The Pittsburgh synagogue killings show that dormant hatreds have reawakened. Franklin Foer Staff writer for The Atlantic. “…The Sabbath is a rupture in the architecture of time, a day set apart. For those who practice the ritual, it is a moment of disconnection from the week—a… Continue Reading
Making Sufficient Knowledge of Technology Available to Counsel
Chasse, Ken, Making Sufficient Knowledge of Technology Available to Counsel (September 14, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3249523 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3249523 (1) lawyers don’t know such evidence-producing technology sufficiently well so as to be able to challenge its performance by effective cross-examination and with their own expert witnesses (if Legal Aid will pay for them). (2) law… Continue Reading
In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Your Electronics Is Legal
Motherboard: “The new exemptions are a major win for the right to repair movement and give consumers wide latitude to legally repair the devices they own. The Librarian of Congress and US Copyright Office just proposed new rules that will give consumers and independent repair experts wide latitude to legally hack embedded software on their… Continue Reading
190 universities just launched 600 free online courses. Here’s the full list.
Quartz – “If you haven’t heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, over 800 universities have created more than 10,000 of these MOOCs. And I’ve been keeping… Continue Reading
Federal Prosecution of Environmental Crimes Continues to Drop
“The latest available data from the Justice Department shows that during the 12 months of fiscal year 2018, ending in September, the government reported prosecuting 109 new environmental crimes. Of these 29 defendants were businesses. The rest were individuals. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University,… Continue Reading
Single-use plastics ban approved by European Parliament
Plastic Oceans: MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021 single-use cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers to be banned from 2021 MEPs added oxo-plastics and certain polystyrenes plastics where no alternatives available to be reduced by at least 25% by 2025 measures against cigarette filters and lost fishing gear National reduction targets for… Continue Reading
Retraction Watch Database Launched
“We’re officially launching our database today. Here’s what you need to know. Readers, this is a big day for us. We’re officially launching the Retraction Watch Database of more than 18,000 retractions, along with a six-page package of stories and infographics based on it that we developed with our partners at Science Magazine. In that… Continue Reading
Why your DAM Needs an Asset Librarian
A new role for librarians: digital asset librarian – “Last fall, I participated in a webinar to discuss the inner workings of 24-by-7 media archive management and digital research. The webinar, and the forum of which it was a part, examined the media and publishing landscape and digital news marketplace, and what that means for… Continue Reading
More Latinos Have Serious Concerns About Their Place in America Under Trump
About half say situation for U.S. Hispanics has worsened over the past year; majority worry that they or someone they know could be deported. “Half of Latinos say their situation in the U.S. has worsened over the past year, up from 32% in the weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election and the… Continue Reading
Consumer Checkbook – Pet Insurance Review
Pet Insurance Overview Articles & Advice “To assess the true value of pet insurance, we gathered premium quotes from nine plans, obtained price data showing what veterinarians actually charge for hundreds of services, and interviewed executives from nine leading insurers. We worked with the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine to develop a reasonable basket… Continue Reading
What Happens When Your Crime Library Goes Up In Smoke?
Jeff Abbott on Losing His Library To A House Fire – “…I lost over 2,500 books in the fire. Lost to water, lost to fire (for weeks afterward, until the house was torn down, we would find partially burned pages of books that had fallen down from the attic or second story, like a kind… Continue Reading
