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President Obama, Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center Anchorage, Alaska – September 1, 2015: “…Our understanding of climate change advances each day. Human activity is disrupting the climate, in many ways faster than we previously thought. The science is stark. It is sharpening. It proves that this once-distant threat is now very much in the present. …
News release – Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer, Facebook , September 5 2015 – “Over the past year, a small team of Facebook engineers has been working together with a group of local educators on an exciting project — to create a classroom experience that’s centered around students’ ambitions that takes advantage of all the …
Big data moves into the collective sphere of farmers who use it now directly to plan and manage all phases of crop production – WSJ.com: “Farmers and entrepreneurs are starting to compete with agribusiness giants over the newest commodity being harvested on U.S. farms—one measured in bytes, not bushels. Startups including Farmobile LLC, Granular Inc. …
Mian, Atif R. and Sufi, Amir and Verner, Emil, Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide (September 3, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2655804 “A rise in the household debt to GDP ratio predicts lower output growth and higher unemployment over the medium-run, contrary to standard macroeconomic models. GDP forecasts by the IMF and OECD …
Breggin, Linda K. and Brock, Jamieson and Agre, Carke and Vandenbergh, Michael P., Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship 2008-2014 (September 3, 2015). Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 45, No. 10731, 2015; Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-23; Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 15-22. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2655783 “This comment provides a …
