This is not a promotion and I have no association with the author, Jonathan Haidt, or the book. The data is noteworthy. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – In the summer of 2022, I was working on a book project — Life After Babel:… Continue Reading
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Review – Law Democratized: A Blueprint For Solving The Justice Crisis
Via LLRX – Review – Law Democratized: A Blueprint For Solving The Justice Crisis – Jerry Lawson rhetorically asks Is anyone in the country better qualified than Renee Knake Jefferson to write about access to justice? Professor of Law at the University of Houston, co-reporter for the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services,… Continue Reading
Copernicus Climate Change Service
“The EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by ECMWF, has provided new tools to make it easier for users to explore how the climate has been changing and how it could change in the future. They include the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas, which enables data from a variety of sources and over various timeframes… Continue Reading
Claude 3 Generated a Law Review Article
Via Sarah Gotschall, LinkedIn: Claude 3 Generated a Law Review Article – “While taking a break from writing memos and analyzing news articles, Claude 3 wrote a law review article on a randomly chosen topic – Bloodlines Over Merits: Exposing the Discriminatory Impact of Legacy Preferences in College Admissions. I gave old Claude a fancier… Continue Reading
Free Coloring Books from Libraries & Museums
Open Culture – Download & Color Thousands of Free Images (2024): “Launched by The New York Academy of Medicine Library in 2016, Color Our Collections 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.” In… Continue Reading
How Americans View the Coronavirus, COVID-19 Vaccines Amid Declining Levels of Concern
“A new Pew Research Center survey finds that just 20% of Americans view the coronavirus as a major threat to the health of the U.S. population today and only 10% are very concerned they will get it and require hospitalization. This data represents a low ebb of public concern about the virus that reached its… Continue Reading
OpenVertebrate Massive Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Vertebrate Specimens
Open Culture: “From The Florida Museum of Natural History comes the openVertebrate project, a new initiative to “provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public.” Introducing the new project (otherwise known as oVert), the museum writes: Between 2017 and 2023, oVert project members took CT scans of… Continue Reading
Publishers’ reply brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive: First Impressions
Dave Hansen and Kyle K. Courtney jointly authored this post. They are also the authors of a White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books. We are not, as the Publishers claim in their brief on page 13, a “cadre of boosters.” We wrote the paper independently as part of our combined decades of work… Continue Reading
Fact-opinion differentiation
Misinformation Review – paper by Matthew Mettler & Jeffery J. Mondak: “Statements of fact can be proved or disproved with objective evidence, whereas statements of opinion depend on personal values and preferences. Distinguishing between these types of statements contributes to information competence. Conversely, failure at fact-opinion differentiation potentially brings resistance to corrections of misinformation and… Continue Reading
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
“The National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT), also known as The Gail Model, allows health professionals to estimate a woman’s risk of developing invasive breast cancer over the next five years and up to age 90 (lifetime risk). The tool uses a woman’s personal medical and reproductive history and the history of… Continue Reading
Public Libraries Saw 92 Percent Increase In Number of Titles Targeted for Censorship Over 2022
“The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers released today show efforts to censor 4,240 unique book titles* in schools and libraries. This tops the previous high from 2022, when 2,571 unique titles… Continue Reading
The Dark World of Citation Cartels
The Chronicle of Higher Education [unpaywalled]: “In the complex landscape of modern academe, the maxim “publish or perish” has been gradually evolving into a different mantra: “Get cited or your career gets blighted.” Citations are the new academic currency, and careers now firmly depend on this form of scholarly recognition. In fact, citation has become… Continue Reading
