ZDNet: “I depend on Google Drive. I use it every day and am in and out of it from morning till night. Because I spend so much time working within the cloud storage system, I’ve come up with a few “tricks” for making my experience more effective and efficient. Before I get to these helpful… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 23, 2022
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 23, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading
Roe V. Wade Under Attack: Choosing Procedural Doctrines Over Fundamental Constitutional Rights
Grossi, Simona, Roe V. Wade Under Attack: Choosing Procedural Doctrines Over Fundamental Constitutional Rights (April 2022). Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-04, 13 ConLawNOW 39 (2022), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4096417 “This Article details the Texas litigation on abortion rights in and out of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2021 and… Continue Reading
33 problems with media
ZeroHedge – One of the hallmarks of democratic society is a healthy, free-flowing media ecosystem. In times past, that media ecosystem would include various mass media outlets, from newspapers to cable TV networks. Today, the internet and social media platforms have greatly expanded the scope and reach of communication within society. Of course, journalism plays a… Continue Reading
The scope and extent of literature that maps threats to species globally: a systematic map
Ridley, F.A., Hickinbotham, E.J., Suggitt, A.J. et al. The scope and extent of literature that maps threats to species globally: a systematic map. Environ Evid 11, 26 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-022-00279-7: “Human activities are driving accelerating rates of species extinctions that continue to threaten nature’s contribution to people. Yet, the full scope of where and how human… Continue Reading
Restrictions on Contraception Could Set Women Back Generations
The New Yorker – “When the current Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last week, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that sent chills through almost anyone who takes the personal freedoms of modern life for granted.… Continue Reading
The fight between authors and librarians tearing book lovers apart
Washington Post: “At the start of the pandemic, teachers and librarians pleaded with a prominent nonprofit to make it easier for kids at home to check out books from its digital library. The organization, called the Internet Archive, agreed. While it traditionally loaned out its more than a million digital books one at a time… Continue Reading
Welcome to the library of the 21st century
CBS News Sunday Morning Welcome to the library of the 21st century – “On a recent Monday morning, the citizens of Kanawha County, West Virginia, came to check out a new chapter in the life of an old institution. After more than two years and $32 million in renovations, downtown Charleston’s public library reopened to… Continue Reading
AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices
AP: “About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a new poll that finds a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans saying they have “hardly any” confidence in the court. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research… Continue Reading
More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Lopez-Leon, S., Wegman-Ostrosky, T., Perelman, C. et al. More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep 11, 16144 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95565-8 “COVID-19 can involve persistence, sequelae, and other medical complications that last weeks to months after initial recovery. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to identify studies assessing the long-term… Continue Reading
America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID
The Atlantic: Even before the pandemic began, more people here were dying at younger ages than in comparably wealthy nations – “For every year from 1933 to 2021, they compared America’s mortality rates with the average of Canada, Japan, and 16 Western European nations (adjusting for age and population). They showed that from the 1980s… Continue Reading
Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows
Gallup – “Americans’ confidence in two facets of the news media — newspapers and television news — has fallen to all-time low points. Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Both readings are down five percentage points… Continue Reading
