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Kammer, Sean, Reflections on Teaching Constitutional Law in the Midst of Constitutional Crisis (September 13, 2021). South Dakota Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 2, 2022, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3923105 “The events of Jan. 6, 2021 at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. brought the U.S. Constitution to the forefront of the minds of citizens across …
Kottke.org – “In response to a Freedom of Information Act request in 2014, the FBI released their internal 83-page guide to internet slang (most of which are initialisms and acronyms). The quality of the scanned document is very poor, but it’s (just) readable. A few of my favorite phrases gleaned from skipping around the report: …
AP via NBCNews – “There’s an “Island of Misfit Toys” in the popular holiday classic. Now there’s an island for unwanted and banned books, too. The tiny library on Matinicus Island 22 miles off the Maine coast is on a mission to fill its shelves with books that have fallen out of favor elsewhere. From …
“The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce an update to the user interface of its PubMed Central (PMC) digital archive—a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. PMC’s fresh look and feel is the first step in an ongoing effort to modernize PMC, create a more accessible user experience …
Motherboard/Vice: “Last June, the Department of Defense released a long-awaited and much-hyped document called “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” detailing the government’s knowledge of UFOs and its programs trying to detect and catalog them. Many UFOlogists hoped that the “UFO report” would be a watershed moment in the field, showing that the government was taking …
The Hill: “Government agencies would no longer be able to indefinitely conceal their secret seizure of email records under legislation introduced Tuesday that takes aim at gag orders. The Government Surveillance Transparency Act, sponsored by a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers, puts limitations on gag orders that seek to block tech companies from …
Emery University: “For some individuals, the road to recovery from COVID-19 is long. While most people recover from mild COVID-19 symptoms over the course of one to two weeks, “long-haul” patients can suffer from lingering symptoms for months on end. This syndrome, called post-acute COVID-19 or “long COVID,” can have devastating effects on the daily …
NASA FIRMS: Providing Active Fire Data for Near-Real Time Monitoring and Applications. “The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data within 3 hours of satellite observation from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard …
“The Open Internet Alliance aims to strengthen the advocacy voice of medium-sized companies and organisations that promote and defend Open Internet principles. We welcome participation from other like-minded companies. The Open Internet is at a crossroads in Europe. With the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, the EU has an opportunity to create …
Smithsonian Magazine: “The Tolkien Estate recently published a trove of rare, unpublished art by the famed fantasy author on its website…In his high-fantasy novels, British author J.R.R. Tolkien combined his academic training in languages and his love of storytelling to create Middle-earth, a fictional continent populated by wizards, elves, orcs, dragons, hobbits, talking trees and …
Russian Asset Tracker – “A sizable chunk of Russia’s wealth has been siphoned offshore by corrupt politicians and well-connected businessmen. We wanted to know where it went — so we started hunting. OCCRP and its partners trawled land records, corporate registries, and offshore leaks to come up with this database of assets belonging to key …
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s catalog of open federal environmental datasets. View the page here. “We are excited to announce a newcatalog of open federal datasets now available through EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) website. EEW works with members of the public to analyze and present EPA data on violations of environmental laws, inspections of polluting …
