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Antibiotics And Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria In Meat: Not Getting Better, By Maryn McKenna: “A few days ago, the Food and Drug Administration released two important documents related to antibiotic use in livestock raising, and what the results of that antibiotic use are. Id say that they released them quietly, except, when it comes to this issue, …
Ethan Bronner: “Faced with profound and seemingly irreversible shifts, the legal profession is contemplating radical changes to its educational system, including cutting the curriculum, requiring far more on-the-ground training and licensing technicians who are not full lawyers.”
Via First Monday – The new library of Babel? Borges, digitisation and the myth of the universal library by Christopher Rowe “The growing capacity of digital encoding and storage has opened up vast new avenues for the archiving and distribution of texts in virtual space, prompting many to declare the imminent obsolescence of print media, …
Economic Survey of the United Kingdom 2013 – “Recovering from the recession, improving longer-term growth potential and reducing inequality are key challenges for the UK economy. Lingering effects from the global financial crisis, the restrictive impact from necessary fiscal consolidation and headwinds from the euro area sovereign debt crisis risk prolonging and worsening the economic …
American Banker/Bank Technology: “Social networking has become so common and broad-based in its use there are now more than 500 million Twitter users and more than 1 billion Facebook users that banks have no choice but to incorporate social networking into their marketing efforts.”
Via First Monday – Content analysis study of librarian blogs: Professional development and other uses by Grace M. Jackson-Brown “A content analysis study of leading librarian blogs shows how blogs are used for professional development, political advocacy for libraries, research and other information dissemination uses. An examination of blog posts, comments, and blogger responses to …
Open Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption – 26(1) Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (Fall 2012) by Yochai Benkler. “The paper reviews evidence from eight wireless markets: mobile broadband; wireless healthcare; smart grid communications; inventory management; access control; mobile payments; fleet management; and secondary markets in spectrum. I find that markets are …
“The goal of this new MARC Usage in WorldCat activity is to provide an evidence base for testing assertions about the value of capturing various attributes by demonstrating whether the cataloging community has made the effort to populate specific tags, not just to define them in anticipation of use. OCLC Research seeks to use evidence …
NOAA – “In 2012, the contiguous United States (CONUS) average annual temperature of 55.3°F was 3.2°F above the 20th century average, and was the warmest year in the 1895-2012 period of record for the nation. The 2012 annual temperature was 1.0°F warmer than the previous record warm year of 1998. Since 1895, the CONUS has …
