ReFED: “In 2019, an enormous 35% of all food in the United States went unsold or uneaten. That’s $408 billion worth of food – roughly 2% of U.S. GDP – with a greenhouse gas footprint equivalent to 4% of total U.S. GHG emissions. Most of this became food waste, which went straight to landfill, incineration,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2021
Amazon’s new rotating, follow-you camera is useful and invasive
Washington Post – “The Echo Show 10 tracks your movement to make sure you’re always in the frame on video calls. But it also doubles as a surveillance camera inside your home…” Continue Reading
Massive Seven-Volume Collection Chronicles the Pioneering Legacy of Abstract Artist Hilma af Klint
Colassal: “Following a wildly successful retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2018, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) has firmly secured her place as a groundbreaking figure in abstract art. In recent years, her colorful, spiritually-minded body of work has reshaped art historical timelines, supplanting male artists like Vasily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, and Josef Albers, who have long been… Continue Reading
How School Librarians Adjusted to Remote Learning
EdTech – “For students and communities, librarians provide resources and support in the age of COVID-19 and distance learning. As schools across the nation shifted to distance learning — and then again to a hybrid model — library staff have taken creative approaches to foster student engagement and give students access to literature. From sharing… Continue Reading
The importance of technology competence when communicating electronically
Sui Generis – Nicole Black: “I’m sure that by now you’ve already seen the now infamous cat filter court hearing video. If not, Google it and watch it. I’ll wait. Now that you’re back, let’s talk about how you can avoid replicating that unfortunate predicament. The short answer? By maintaining technology competence when using electronic… Continue Reading
5 hidden Google gems you aren’t using yet
Fast Company, Doug Aamoth – “For a tool most of us use every day to find stuff on the web, Google has more than a few helpful tricks up its sleeve that aren’t super apparent unless you know where to look. Here are a few I’ve found recently that have saved me countless clicks, spared… Continue Reading
Firefox 86 brings multiple Picture-in-Picture, “Total Cookie Protection”
Ars Technica – “Mozilla released Firefox 86 yesterday, and the browser is now available for download and installation for all major operating systems, including Android. Along with the usual round of bug fixes and under-the-hood updates, the new build offers a couple of high-profile features—multiple Picture-in-Picture video-watching support, and (optional) stricter cookie separation, which Mozilla… Continue Reading
46,218 news transcripts show ideologically extreme politicians get more airtime
Via LLRX – 46,218 news transcripts show ideologically extreme politicians get more airtime – Professors Joshua Darr, Jeremey Padgett and Johanna Dunaway research how changes in the media have shifted the incentives of elected officials and the considerations of voters, and what that means for American democracy. In recent work, they showed that extremely conservative… Continue Reading
‘Animals are amazing’: How happy content finds its way to you
The Dodo and We Rate Dogs are some of the friendliest spaces online, “but videos and tweets about dogs, cats, cows and piglets aren’t just about spreading good cheer…The Dodo isn’t alone in its mission to become an authority in the pet space either. Animal shelter and rescue organizations like YouTube subscribers), Howl of a… Continue Reading
Mastcam-Z’s First 360-Degree Panorama
NASA: “This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images taken on Sol 3, the third Martian day of the mission (Feb. 21, 2021). Annotated versions of this panorama include a scale bar and… Continue Reading
Black and Hispanic people more ‘engaged’ with books than most Americans
Via LLRX – Black and Hispanic people more ‘engaged’ with books than most Americans are: New report from Panorama Project – David H. Rothman, cofounder of LibraryEndowment.org, discusses the new Panorama Project report that covers a variety of topics, ranging from piracy to synergies between books and other media. Specifically significant to Rothman is the… Continue Reading
A Simple Rule of Thumb for Knowing When the Pandemic Is Over
The Atlantic: “…The most obvious interpretation of “beating COVID-19” would be that transmission of the coronavirus has stopped, a scenario some public-health experts have hashtagged #ZeroCOVID. But the experts I spoke with all agreed that this won’t happen in the U.S. in the foreseeable future. “This would require very high levels of vaccination coverage,” said… Continue Reading
