Triassic Cancer—Osteosarcoma in a 240-Million-Year-Old Stem-Turtle. Yara Haridy, MS; Florian Witzmann, PhD; Patrick Asbach, MD; et al Rainer R. Schoch, PhD; Nadia Fröbisch, PhD; Bruce M. Rothschild, JAMA Oncol. Published online February 7, 2019. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.6766 “Paleopathology, the study of ancient disease, is a vital way by which we understand the evolution of pathogens, immune systems,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2019
NYPD – Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpoints
The New York Times: “Google’s navigation app Waze is known for providing real-time, user-submitted reports that advise drivers about potential thorns in their roadsides. But one feature has Waze in conflict with law enforcement officials across the country: how the app marks the location of police officers on the roads ahead or stationed at drunken-driving… Continue Reading
The Rise of the Robot Reporter
The New York Times: “As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated by machine is on the rise. Roughly a third of the content published by Bloomberg News uses some form of automated technology. The system used by the company, Cyborg, is able… Continue Reading
Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction
Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction. Scarlett R. Howard1, Aurore Avarguès-Weber2, Jair E. Garcia1, Andrew D. Greentree3 and Adrian G. Dyer. Science Advances 06 Feb 2019: Vol. 5, no. 2, eaav0961 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0961 “Many animals understand numbers at a basic level for use in essential tasks such as foraging, shoaling, and resource management.… Continue Reading
New Electronic Edition of Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook
“ACUS is pleased to announce the launch of the continuously-updated electronic edition of the Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a joint initiative with the Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice of the American Bar Association, which published the most recent editions of the Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is an annotated compilation of the… Continue Reading
Lexis Advance will launch chatbots to assist researchers
LawSites: “…Serena Wellen, senior director of research information at LexisNexis, revealed during a Legalweek media briefing that the legal research platform Lexis Advance will soon include chatbots to help guide users in their research. “Our goal is to make legal research more guided in a more conversational experience,” Wellen said. Called Lexis Research Assistant, the… Continue Reading
Study – Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time
Inc.com – A new study from Harvard reveals that open-plan offices decrease rather than increase face-to-face collaboration: “Over the decades, a lot of really stupid management fads have come and gone, including: Six Sigma, where employees wear different colored belts (like in karate) to show they’ve been trained in the methodology. Stack Ranking, where employees… Continue Reading
Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Intercept: “…An unavoidable takeaway of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” is, essentially, that everything is even worse than you thought. Even if you’ve followed the news items and historical trends that gird Zuboff’s analysis, her telling takes what look like privacy overreaches and data blunders, and recasts them as the intentional movements of a… Continue Reading
Park Service will not use entrance fees to pay for shutdown operations
The Hill: “The National Park Service (NPS) will retroactively pull from congressionally appropriated funds to pay for the park maintenance and other operations the Trump administration authorized during the partial government shutdown, according to an internal NPS memo obtained by The Hill Wednesday. Dan Smith, NPS’s deputy director and its top official, told staff in… Continue Reading
Report – Taxpayer costs for Trump travel to his Florida property estimated at over $64 million
Washington Post: “…Since his first month in office, with his first weekend forays to his private retreat in Florida — Mar-a-Lago — questions have been raised about the cost of those trips. This isn’t simple to figure out, given that the total includes costs incurred by various government agencies as well as costs associated with… Continue Reading
LA typewriter repairman maintains business and purpose against internet tide
LA Times: “Twenty years ago, Martin Quezada was told the end was nigh. The sun was setting on the typewriter. Computers were king. Twenty years later, Quezada’s shop, International Office Machines in San Gabriel, is still in business. The downturn happened. But it did not defeat Quezada, now 61, who kept his doors open. He… Continue Reading
CRS – Artificial Intelligence and National Security
Vias FAS: “The CIA has around 140 projects involving or related to artificial intelligence, CRS noted (citing a 2017 story in DefenseOne). See Artificial Intelligence and National Security, updated January 30, 2019.” Continue Reading
