The Guardian: ‘Off the charts’: the key breakthroughs giving new hope in treating cancer. World’s largest cancer conference in Chicago shares ‘impressive’ findings in vaccines, drug trials and AI. At the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, the world’s largest cancer conference, doctors, scientists and researchers shared new findings on ways to tackle… Continue Reading
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Patrons Speak Out: The Impact of Losing Access to More Than 500,000 Books
Internet Archives Blogs: “Earlier this week, we asked readers across social media to tell us the impact of losing access to more than 500,000 books removed from our library as a result of the publishers’ lawsuit. The response was overwhelming, and the stories shared were powerful and heartfelt. It wasn’t just titles that disappeared—it was… Continue Reading
Sick of scams? Stop answering your phone.
Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones. Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate. Unfortunately, every year hundreds of thousands of people in… Continue Reading
Book bans in political context: Evidence from US schools
Book bans in political context: Evidence from US schools. PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2024, pgae197, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae197 “In the 2021–2022 school year, more books were banned in US school districts than in any previous year. Book banning and other forms of information censorship have serious implications for democratic processes, and censorship has become… Continue Reading
The Vogue Archive
Via Google Arts and Culture – The Vogue Archive – Search or Browse 15,000 iconic images, stories, cover art, illustrations and stories on artists and culture. Continue Reading
Detectives welcome on historic quest to rediscover the Lost Library of Books
Wiener Library teams up with Leo Baeck Institute to search for collection of 60,000 precious books looted by Nazis from The Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin – Jewish News: Detectives welcome on historic quest to rediscover the Lost Library of Books. “The new pop-up exhibition at the Wiener Library reveals the complex journeys… Continue Reading
Picasso Museum opens vast online archive
“The Musée Picasso-Paris collection comprises over 5,000 works and tens of thousands of archived pieces. For its quality and scope as well as the range of art forms it encompasses, this collection is the only one in the world to present both Picasso’s complete painted, sculpted, engraved and illustrated œuvre and a precise record—through sketches,… Continue Reading
AI Now
Perkins, Rachelle Holmes, AI Now (May 24, 2024). Temple Law Review,Vol. 97, Forthcoming, George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 24-14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4840481 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4840481 “Legal scholars have made important explorations into the opportunities and challenges of generative artificial intelligence within legal education and the practice of law. This Article adds to… Continue Reading
New database features 250 AI tools that can enhance social science research
Stubbs-Richardson, M., Brown, L., Paul, M., & Brenner, D., (2023). Artificial Intelligence Applications for Social Science Research. Scholars Junction, Mississippi State University. “Our team developed a database of 250 Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications useful for social science research. To be included in our database, the AI tool had to be useful for: 1) literature reviews,… Continue Reading
AI in investigative journalism: mapping the field
Online Journalism Blog: “Investigative journalists have been among the earliest adopters of artificial intelligence in the newsroom, and pioneered some of its most compelling — and award-winning — applications. In this first part of a draft book chapter, I look at the different branches of AI and how they’ve been used in a range of… Continue Reading
AP Stylebook’s new chapter on crime is a glimpse into the future
Poynter: “Here’s a prediction: A decade from now, the American newsrooms still standing will have completely reformed how they cover public safety, replacing cheap stories about shootings and stabbings with data-rich narratives that educate communities and hold cops accountable. This includes local TV stations and lurid tabloids. Last week, The Associated Press released the latest… Continue Reading
Download Free Coloring Books From Museums and Libraries
“Launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library in 2016, #ColorOurCollections is an annual coloring festival on social media during which libraries, museums, archives and other cultural institutions around the world share free coloring content featuring images from their collections. The annual #ColorOurCollections week generally occurs on the first full week of February, when… Continue Reading
