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News release: “A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth’s forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights influence wildlife habitats within them, while also helping them quantify the carbon stored in Earth’s vegetation. Scientists from NASA’s …
Via LLRX.com: Animal Rights in the Human Legal System – The struggle for human rights has gone on for ages, but the story of animal rights has only begun to be told. Ken Strutin’s guide is a compilation of new and notable legal resources on animal rights and welfare. Its jurisprudence takes into account the …
Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value, Paul André – Carnegie Mellon; Michael Bernstein – MIT, and Kurt Luther – Georgia Tech, February 2012 “While microblog readers have a wide variety of reactions to the content they see, studies have tended to focus on extremes such as retweeting and unfollowing. To understand the broad …
Follow up to Third-Party Cookie Blocking in Safari Bypassed For Millions of Users, this posting via the Windows Internet Explorer Engineering Team Blog: “When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? Weve …
News release: “…the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its non-cancer science assessment for dioxins, which was last reviewed in the 1980s. Dioxins are toxic chemicals that naturally exist in the environment and can be released into the environment through forest fires, backyard burning of trash, certain industrial activities, and residue from past commercial burning …
Business Use of Intellectual Property Protection Documented in NSF Survey by John E. Jankowski1, February 2012 “In todays global economy, much of a businesss competitive advantage lies in the ability to protect and exploit exclusive rights over investments in intellectual property (IP) that is, creative outcomes lacking physical substance but providing long-term benefits to …
“Encyclo is an encyclopedia of the future of news, produced by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University…our main site emphasizes new developments and the latest news. We think theres great value in a resource that steps back a bit from the daily updates and focuses on background and context. What is it about Voice …
News release: “Regulation of medical devicesa $350 billion industry that includes such products as heart and brain stents, artificial hips and implantable defibrillatorsis at a crossroads. With a major reauthorization bill up for debate, members of Congress already have introduced 14 bills (as of Feb. 14, 2012) that aim to accelerate devices path to the …
Google Fiber Blog: “Weve measured utility poles; weve studied maps and surveyed neighborhoods; weve come up with a comprehensive set of detailed engineering plans; and weve eaten way too much barbecue. Now, starting [February 6, 2012], were ready to lay fiber. As we build out Google Fiber, well be taking thousands of miles of cables …
Follow up to previous postings on nuclear energy, this news release: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to 11 nuclear power plants, requesting analyses of the effects of irradiation on nuclear fuels physical properties under certain postulated accident conditions. The agency is requesting the licensees evaluate a phenomenon known as …
False and Misleading Health Information Provided to Teens by the Indoor Tanning Industry, Investigative Report, Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Rep. Diana DeGette, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, 2/1/2012 “The World Health Organization and the National Toxicology Program classify indoor tanning beds as a known human carcinogen. …
