Via LLRX – Doing Deals Better with Diagrams – Ron Friedmann discusses how transaction lawyers who routinely rely on dense text to understand complicated ideas can benefit from using the release of StructureFlow to diagram and track complex deals.
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Daily Archives: July 20, 2020
Is Your Internet Speed Fast Enough For Streaming? Here’s How to Test
Cord Cutters News: “Slow internet got you buffering longer than usual? It’s easy to check to be sure you’re actually getting what you’re paying for from your Internet Service Provider. The results will also help you know what streaming services or how many devices your coverage will be able to handle. It’s also helpful to… Continue Reading
Webster’s 1913
webster’s 1913 – Connoisseur’s reference to American English – a dictionary for writers and wordsmiths Continue Reading
A Family Guide to Covid: Questions & Answers for Parents, Grandparents & Children
“In A Family Guide to Covid, William A. Haseltine, PhD, answers tough questions about Covid-19 honestly, with equal measures of clarity and compassion. As our understanding of Covid-19 evolves, so too will this book…” The book is free to read online, using the password – AskDrBill – or you can print the PDF version. Continue Reading
Open-access Plan S to allow publishing in any journal
Nature – “Funding agencies behind the radical open-access (OA) initiative Plan S have announced a policy that could make it possible for researchers to bypass journals’ restrictions on open publishing. The change could allow scientists affected by Plan S to publish in any journal they want — even in subscription titles, such as Science, that… Continue Reading
Populace Insights: American Priorities For Higher Education
Post Secondary Education Index – “A national private opinion quantitative survey that surfaces the decision-making factors that matter most for Americans in choosing a higher education experience. It was conducted by the think tank Populace and powered by Gradient Metrics. The primary component was a choice-based-conjoint (CBC) instrument that distinguishes between personal opinion and perceived… Continue Reading
Pay Cuts, Layoffs, and More: How Law Firms Are Managing the Pandemic
Law.com – Our firm-by-firm guide to how law firms are protecting their bottom lines from the economic fallout of the coronavirus. “Major law firms are adopting drastic measures to shore up their finances and mitigate the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. We will continue to update the list below as the crisis continues….” Continue Reading
The Global G-d Divide
“Across the 34 countries, which span six continents, a median of 45% say it is necessary to believe in G-d to be moral and have good values. But there are large regional variations in answers to this question. People in the emerging economies included in this survey tend to be more religious and more likely… Continue Reading
Experts respond to big publishers’ attacks on libraries and digital lending
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA — “Overnight, millions of people all over the world lost access to millions of physical books when libraries and schools closed to stop the spread of COVID-19. The nonprofit Internet Archive (IA) is now being sued by four big publishers for actions IA took to help communities during the pandemic and establish… Continue Reading
CBP does end run around warrants, simply buys license plate-reader data
Ars Technica – How does “unreasonable search” work when any agency can buy data from anywhere? “US Customs and Border Protection can track everyone’s cars all over the country thanks to massive troves of automated license plate scanner data, a new report reveals—and CBP didn’t need to get a single warrant to do it. Instead,… Continue Reading
