“Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, at Yale University. Professor Sonnenfeld has compiled and is updating a listing of 40 companies that remain operating in Russia, with significant business risk exposure. Here is a link to his work on this matter… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2022
Do You Still Love the Walkman?
The New York Times: Some people love technology that the rest of us see as obsolete junk. [Not “obsolete junk.” Yes, I still have and use my Walkman, cassette player, CD player, iPod, and listen to hundreds of CDs and vinyl. Reminder / e-waste is real and please consider upcycling, donating or even selling old… Continue Reading
UK House of Commons Library on Ukraine Crisis
“This page features Commons Library publications relevant to the current crisis in Ukraine. On 24 February 2022 Russia launched military action in Ukraine, with forces crossing into the country from Belarus in the north, Russia in the east and Crimea in the south. President Putin has said Russia, acting in self defence, was launching a… Continue Reading
DeepMind AI tool helps historians restore ancient texts
The Register: “AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature. A team of computer scientists and experts in classical studies led by DeepMind and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice trained a transformer-based neural network to restore inscriptions written in… Continue Reading
Stress in America Money, inflation, war pile on to nation stuck in COVID-19 survival mode
“March 11, 2022, marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 global pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization. In the two years since that declaration, virtually all aspects of life have been altered. To better understand the impact of the past two years on individual stress, the American Psychological Association partnered with The Harris Poll… Continue Reading
Russians Are Finding Ways Around Putin’s Internet Blockade
Bloomberg – “Providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, are recording a surge in usage from Russia after the Kremlin cracked down on Facebook and other services as part of a broader effort to silence dissent and limit information about its invasion of Ukraine. “In the past week, we saw traffic to our website from… Continue Reading
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people
MCDREEAMIE-MUSINGS – Human Factors, Presentation Skills – “We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by… Continue Reading
In final hours, Indiana lawmakers revive and then kill book-banning bill
IndyStar – “In the final hours of the legislative session, lawmakers revived and then promptly killed a bill that would have criminalized teachers and librarians who exposed kids to books and other materials that some may find obscene. Critics of the bill say it’s unnecessary — schools already have processes in place to deal with book… Continue Reading
Toronto’s Best Friends: The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds
Wonderful example of data journalism using tableau public via Tom Johnson: Toronto’s Best Friends: The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds. See also WeRateDogs “not sure if you’ll believe this… but the dogs of 2021 were good again this year Produced by: Matt Nelson (WeRateDogs) and West Webb (Legacy Content) Edited by: Cole Diepholz (Legacy Content)… Continue Reading
Why lawyers will love the iPhone SE (third generation)
iPhoneJD: “Almost exactly six years ago in 2016, when Apple’s flagship phone was the iPhone 6s, Apple introduced the iPhone SE. The 2016 version of the iPhone SE took most of the insides of the iPhone 6s (which has been introduced six months earlier) and put it in a smaller and cheaper device ($399 for… Continue Reading
Search the internet with Marginalia
“This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. This search engine… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 6, 2022
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 6, 2022: Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
