Monthly archives: June, 2021

ABA Section of Legal Education releases first-time report on bar passage data

“The Managing Director’s Office of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar released today a new set of bar passage data outcomes for ABA-approved law schools that provides national “ultimate” and first-time pass rates based on race, ethnicity and gender. The charts, which are incorporated in the section’s General …

Subjects: Education, Legal Research

Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids

Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX. Publication Date: June 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c00976 © 2021 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids [Full text] Helene Wiesinger, Zhanyun Wang, and Stefanie Hellweg. “A variety of chemical substances used in plastic production may be released throughout the entire …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Health Care

AALL Releases 2021 State of the Profession Report

“The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) today releases its 2021 AALL State of the Profession report,a data-driven exploration of the landscape in law libraries and in the legal information profession. It is intended to be used as a tool for organizational benchmarking, advocacy, strategic planning—as well as for personal and professional development. The report …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Google gets a new rival as Brave Search opens to the public

CNET: “About 32 million people now use Brave’s ad-blocking browser each month. Brave, the maker of a popular ad blocking browser, opened on Tuesday a public beta of its privacy-focused search engine, a first step in creating a product that could compete with market titan Google. Brave Search will become the default search engine in …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

Top 4 Unbiased Independent World News Sources

Make Use Of: “Unbiased news sources are rare, but they do exist. Here are the best news websites that are free from true censorship….The Associated Press was founded in 1846. The renowned global news organization has 53 Pulitzer Prizes under its belt. It is and has always been the epitome of clear and unbiased news …

Subjects: Censorship, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Physics explains why there is no information on social media

ZDNet – Physics dictates machines should minimize entropy, and humans are complying on TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms…Social media is…trying to recover a signal from noise in a communications channel. But what kind of communications channel is social media?  It’s not a communications channel between people, for the problem of how to send a …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Social Media

A fascinating design history of the filing cabinet

Fast Company Adapted with permission from The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information by Craig Robertson, published by Minnesota University Press “…The filing cabinet emerged at the same time the skyscraper was becoming a cultural symbol that presented capitalism and modernity as distinctly American projects for the 20th century. As vertical structures, the skyscraper and …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries, Recommended Books

Alexa’s recording you. What’s she doing with it?

YouTube: “Read Sara’s article about the privacy settings on your smart speaker…In fact, over one-third of U.S. adults has a smart speaker. In 2014, Amazon debuted a simple but industry-changing product: the smart speaker. Technically the Amazon Echo was just a microphone attached to the internet that you installed in your home. But it let …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Internet, Search Engines

The 10 Best Ways to Read Comics Online for Free

Make Uses Of: “Marvel and DC have gained a lot of new fans with their increased cinematic presence, meaning a boost to the comic book industry. Unfortunately, visiting your local comic book store can prove expensive. Single issues typically cost $3.99, with milestone issues and variants costing even more. Thankfully, you can save some money …

Subjects: Internet