Day archives: May 18th, 2021

Truth, Lies, and Automation – How Language Models Could Change Disinformation

Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, Center for Security and Emerging Technology: Truth, Lies, and Automation How Language Models Could Change Disinformation. Ben Buchanan, Andrew Lohn, Micah Musser, Katerina Sedova. May 2021. “Growing popular and industry interest in high-performing natural language generation models has led to concerns that such models could be used to …

Subjects: AI, Defense, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

The untold story of how Florence Nightingale used data viz to save lives

Fast Company – “Florence Nightingale is well known as the founder of modern nursing. But after seeing the terrible conditions facing soldiers she treated during the Crimean War, she became a fierce public health advocate. And she harnessed new ways of showing data to do so. Nightingale was a lifelong information designer. As a child, …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Recommended Books

More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean

Research Article. Environmental Studies. [Full text is Free] More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean. J. J. Meijer, Tim van Emmerik, Ruud van der Ent, Christian Schmidt and Laurent Lebreton. Science Advances 30 Apr 2021:Vol. 7, no. 18, eaaz5803 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803 See also – The Ocean Cleanup: …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Health Care, Knowledge Management

What executives are saying about the future of hybrid work

McKinsey: “In the postpandemic future of work, nine out of ten organizations will be combining remote and on-site working, according to a new McKinsey survey of 100 executives across industries and geographies. The survey confirms that productivity and customer satisfaction have increased during the pandemic. Despite the embrace of a hybrid model, though, most organizations …

Subjects: Economy, Health Care, Knowledge Management

How to Do Research in International Law? A Basic Guide for Beginners

Lieblich, Eliav, How to Do Research in International Law? A Basic Guide for Beginners (October 4, 2020). 62 Harvard International Law Journal Online (2021), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3704776 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3704776 “This is a basic guide for students taking their first steps in international legal research. It mainly deals with thinking about and framing research questions, …

Subjects: Education, Legal Research

Report – Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste

The Guardian – Plastic Waste Makers index identifies those driving climate crisis with virgin polymer production. Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis and creating an environmental catastrophe, new research reveals. Among the global businesses responsible for 55% of the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

Net Zero by 2050

International Energy Agency press release  – “The number of countries announcing pledges to achieve net-zero emissions over the coming decades continues to grow. But the pledges by governments to date – even if fully achieved – fall well short of what is required to bring global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050 …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law