Day archives: July 28th, 2021

The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Volume 128, September 2021, Pages 789-818 (Open Access) “Abstract – Background – Misconceptions about ADHD stigmatize affected people, reduce credibility of providers, and prevent/delay treatment. To challenge misconceptions, we curated findings with strong evidence base. Methods – We reviewed studies with more than 2000 participants or meta-analyses from five or more …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

DOJ – Trump officials can testify in inquiries into efforts to subvert election outcome

The New York Times: “The Justice Department notified former officials this week that they could testify to the various committees investigating the Trump administration’s efforts to subvert the results of the presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times. Witnesses can give “unrestricted …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

White House Issues Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

National Law Review: “On July 28, 2021, President Biden signed a National Security Memorandum entitled “Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems” (the “Memorandum”). The Memorandum formally establishes an Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative and directs the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) and the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research

World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

BioScience: World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021 – Published 28 July 2021 “In 2019, Ripple and colleagues (2020) warned of untold suffering and declared a climate emergency together with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from 153 countries. They presented graphs of planetary vital signs indicating very troubling trends, along with little progress by …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted

College and Research Libraries News: Ashley Farley, Allison Langham-Putrow, Elisabeth Shook, Leila Belle Sterman, and Megan Wacha. Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted – Lessons Learned “Transformative agreement (TA) is an umbrella term used to describe contracts between institutions and publishers intended to transform the current, primarily subscription-based, journal publishing model to a fully open access …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

The Chatbot Problem

The New Yorker: “As we teach computers to use natural language, we are bumping into the inescapable biases of human communication…Artificial intelligence is an ethical quagmire. Its power can be more than a little nauseating. But there’s a kind of unique horror to the capabilities of natural language processing. In 2016, a Microsoft chatbot called …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management