Day archives: August 27th, 2018

Harvard Law School Library receives donation of material from American lawyer and radio personality

Et Seq. The Blog of the Harvard Law School Library: “The Harvard Law School Library is excited to announce that it recently received a unique collection of material from the family of Harvard Law School (HLS) alumnus, jurist, and popular radio personality Neil Chayet (HLS ’63). Comprised of more than 10,000 individual transcripts and several …

Subjects: Education, Legal Research, Libraries

NOAA – Heat-seeking citizen scientists zero-in on D.C., Baltimore for mapping mission

NOAA: “A corps of volunteers are setting out this week with an important task in front of them: Collect real-time data about the hottest places in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. It’s part of a NOAA-funded project to map places where people are most at risk during extreme heat waves. Using specially designed thermal sensors mounted on …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care

Federal judge blocks publication of 3-D printed gun blueprints

Washington Post: “A federal judge ruled in favor of more than a dozen attorneys general on Monday to block the release of blueprints for 3-D printed firearms online. The Seattle court order effectively criminalized publication of the gun design files, banning Texas-based company Defense Distributed from posting them on the Internet. The decision presents a new hurdle in the company’s fight to make …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms

The New York Times: “In recent months, apparently, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft and others have aggressively lobbied officials in the Trump administration and elsewhere to start outlining a federal privacy law. The law would have a dual purpose, they said: It would overrule the California law and instead put into place a kinder set of …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? That Study – And Many Others – Were Just Called Into Question.

BuzzFeedNews: “Another spate of high-profile and provocative psychology studies have failed to replicate, dealing blows to the theories that fiction makes readers empathetic, for example, or that the internet makes us dumber. At a time when psychology researchers are increasingly concerned about the rigor of their field, five laboratories set out to repeat 21 influential …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Social Media

White Collar Prosecutions Fall to Lowest in 20 Years

White Collar Prosecutions Fall to Lowest in 20 Years – “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during April 2018 the government reported 494 new white collar crime prosecutions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, this number is down 14.4 percent over …

Subjects: Courts, Economy, Financial System, Legal Research

John McCain’s Final Letter to America

The Atlantic – John McCain’s Final Letter to America – this missive addresses our country, and our people, collectively and individually – who we are, what and whom we have lost, sacrificed, and are in danger of destroying, as well as the roots of compassion, grace, strength, courage, hope and commitment we are all called …

Subjects: Knowledge Management