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Daily Archives: October 13, 2020
COVID-19 IMPACT: School District Status Updates for Fall 2020
MCH Strategic Data: “In partnership with Esri, the global market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we’ve created the below information to keep you informed of the rapid changes and impact of COVID-19 on school reopening plans and operations at the district level. Check back often. This valuable resource is tracking school district reopening dates,… Continue Reading
Native American Treaties Now Online for the First Time
“Hundreds of Native American treaties have been scanned and are now available online, for the first time, in our Catalog. In partnership with The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), you can learn more about these treaties: https://digitreaties.org Native American Heritage Month – selected online highlights Efforts Begin to Digitize 377 Native Treaties, National… Continue Reading
The Coronavirus Unveiled
The New York Times: “In February, as the new coronavirus swept across China and shut down entire cities, a scientist named Sai Li set out to paint its portrait. At the time, the best pictures anyone had managed to take were low-resolution images, in which the virus looked like a barely discernible smudge. Dr. Li,… Continue Reading
How to Tell If Socializing Indoors Is Safe
The Atlantic: “…No indoor gathering will be perfectly safe. Although many states have allowed indoor public settings such as gyms and restaurants to reopen at least in some capacity, experts don’t recommend spending a lot of time indoors with others, especially in situations where masking isn’t possible. The odds of catching the coronavirus are about… Continue Reading
How To Block Emails In Gmail On Desktop
Make Use Of: “We’re going to look at the various step-by-step instructions from both a desktop and a mobile standpoint. We’ll start with how to block emails on Gmail if you’re using a desktop or laptop. Before you begin, a word of warning—although some third-party email clients do allow you to block email addresses and… Continue Reading
Web Hosting Checker
“Web Hosting Checker is such a tool that allows you to know where a website is hosted, it’s location, you can find out the Hosting Provider and their Contact details of Hosting Provider with our tool. Our Hosting Lookup tool (Hosting Checker) is all about Accuracy and Speed. We don’t want our users to wait… Continue Reading
WHO chief slams herd immunity response to coronavirus pandemic as ‘unethical’
Evening Standard via MSN: “Deliberately allowing Covid-19 to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity is “unethical”, an expert has warned. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the concept, which occurs when a large portion of a population becomes immune to a disease, “means allowing unnecessary infections, suffering and death”. It came as… Continue Reading
The proportion of Americans dying from coronavirus infections is the highest in the developed world
Bloomberg: “…according to a study of global mortality rates that shows the U.S. pandemic response left citizens exposed to the lethal disease. Early in the outbreak, the U.S. mortality rate from Covid-19 was lower than in many other hard-hit countries, including the U.K., Spain and the Netherlands, according to the report Monday in the Journal… Continue Reading
How do we make a good taxonomy of legal problems?
Open Law Lab: “I have been working on the giant effort to make a comprehensive, user-centered taxonomy of legal issues that people have in the US. It’s called LIST, Legal Issues Taxonomy, and up in its growing glory at the site https://taxonomy.legal. Note: this new taxonomy was previously called National Subject Matter Index v2 (NSMIv2),… Continue Reading
Mind the Gap: Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy
Ryan, Christopher and Dawe, Meghan, Mind the Gap: Gender Pay Disparities in the Legal Academy (September 24, 2020). Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Forthcoming, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 207, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3699208 – “Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public’s attention in recent… Continue Reading
The Role of Justice in the Constitution: The Case for Social and Economic Rights in Comparative Perspective
Rosenfeld, Michel, The Role of Justice in the Constitution: The Case for Social and Economic Rights in Comparative Perspective (October 5, 2020). Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 620, Cardozo Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3705657 – “Liberal Constitutions enacted after World War Two typically comprise social and economic rights and hence enshrine a distributive… Continue Reading
