Day archives: March 10th, 2022

Over 300 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia – But Some Remain

“Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, at Yale University. Professor Sonnenfeld has compiled and is updating a listing of 40 companies that remain operating in Russia, with significant business risk exposure. Here is a link to his work on this matter …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Legal Research

UK House of Commons Library on Ukraine Crisis

“This page features Commons Library publications relevant to the current crisis in Ukraine. On 24 February 2022 Russia launched military action in Ukraine, with forces crossing into the country from Belarus in the north, Russia in the east and Crimea in the south. President Putin has said Russia, acting in self defence, was launching a …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research

DeepMind AI tool helps historians restore ancient texts

The Register: “AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature. A team of computer scientists and experts in classical studies led by DeepMind and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice trained a transformer-based neural network to restore inscriptions written in …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Stress in America Money, inflation, war pile on to nation stuck in COVID-19 survival mode

“March 11, 2022, marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 global pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization. In the two years since that declaration, virtually all aspects of life have been altered. To better understand the impact of the past two years on individual stress, the American Psychological Association partnered with The Harris Poll …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Energy, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Health Care

Russians Are Finding Ways Around Putin’s Internet Blockade

Bloomberg – “Providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, are recording a surge in usage from Russia after the Kremlin cracked down on Facebook and other services as part of a broader effort to silence dissent and limit information about its invasion of Ukraine. “In the past week, we saw traffic to our website from …

Subjects: Censorship, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Social Media

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

MCDREEAMIE-MUSINGS – Human Factors, Presentation Skills – “We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

In final hours, Indiana lawmakers revive and then kill book-banning bill

IndyStar – “In the final hours of the legislative session, lawmakers revived and then promptly killed a bill that would have criminalized teachers and librarians who exposed kids to books and other materials that some may find obscene. Critics of the bill say it’s unnecessary — schools already have processes in place to deal with book …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Free Speech, Legislation, Libraries

Toronto’s Best Friends: The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds

Wonderful example of data journalism using tableau public via Tom Johnson: Toronto’s Best Friends: The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds. See also WeRateDogs “not sure if you’ll believe this… but the dogs of 2021 were good again this year Produced by: Matt Nelson (WeRateDogs) and West Webb (Legacy Content) Edited by: Cole Diepholz (Legacy Content) …

Subjects: Knowledge Management