2016 State Sales Tax Holidays
The Federation of Tax Administrators provides state by state information on tax holiday periods that target the purchase of back to school related items.
Author archives
EU Report – Precarious Employment in Europe
European Parliament Think Tank – Precarious Employment in Europe (Volume 1: Patterns, Trends and Policy Strategies; Volume 2 – Country Case Studies): “This Policy Department A study examines precarious employment, its patterns, trends and policy strategies in Europe. It explores the risk of precariousness of different types of contract, using information from EU data analysis …
Discovery and Reuse of Open Datasets: An Exploratory Study
Discovery and Reuse of Open Datasets: An Exploratory Study – Sara Mannheimer, Montana State University-Bozeman; Leila Belle Sterman, Montana State Univeristy-Bozeman; Susan Borda, Montana State University-Bozeman. Publication Date 7-19-2016. DOI Link http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2016.1091 “Objective: This article analyzes twenty cited or downloaded datasets and the repositories that house them, in order to produce insights that can be …
How Can Legal Education Speak to the Discovery Enriched Curriculum?
Pascoe, Daniel, How Can Legal Education Speak to the Discovery Enriched Curriculum? (July 28, 2016). Asian Journal of Legal Education, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2815746 “This article discusses the Discovery Enriched Curriculum and its theoretical basis within the educational literature on discovery-based learning and the undergraduate research movement, before moving on to suggest …
Which countries still outlaw apostasy and blasphemy?
Pew Research Center – “Apostasy and blasphemy may seem to many like artifacts of history. But in dozens of countries around the world, laws against apostasy and blasphemy remain on the books and often are enforced…We counted and categorized these laws in 2014 as part of our research for a major report on restrictions on …
US Public Wary of Biomedical Technologies to ‘Enhance’ Human Abilities
Americans are more worried than enthusiastic about using gene editing, brain chip implants and synthetic blood to change human capabilities – By Cary Funk, Brian Kennedy and Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac “Cutting-edge biomedical technologies that could push the boundaries of human abilities may soon be available, making people’s minds sharper and their bodies stronger and healthier …
Fair Use issues for journalists, researchers, bloggers
When Does ‘Fair Use’ Become Unfair? Copyright law allows journalists to quote just enough — but not too much. Who draws the line? 07.21.2016 / By Paul Raeburn “In the United States, copyright protection for authors and other creators comes with the explicit understanding that others have “the right to use copyrighted material without permissions or …
Consumer Reports – Supplements Can Make You Sick
Supplements Can Make You Sick “Dietary supplements are not regulated the same way as medications. This lack of oversight puts consumers’ health at risk.” By Jeneen Interlandi July 27, 2016
New Short Story by Stephen King
Cookie Jar By Stephen King, Illustrations by Pat Perry
Study – breeding conditions for Arctic shorebirds could collapse by 2070
“Climate change could make much of the Arctic unsuitable for millions of migratory birds that travel north to breed each year, according to a new international study published today in Global Change Biology. The University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences’ researcher Hannah Wauchope said that suitable breeding conditions for Arctic shorebirds could collapse by …
BBC – Syria’s secret library
Mike Thomson, BBC News: “When a place has been besieged for years and hunger stalks the streets, you might have thought people would have little interest in books. But enthusiasts have stocked an underground library in Syria with volumes rescued from bombed buildings – and users dodge shells and bullets to reach it…As it is, …
Scholarpedia – peer reviewed open access encyclopedia
“Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written and maintained by scholarly experts from around the world. Scholarpedia is inspired by Wikipedia and aims to complement it by providing in-depth scholarly treatments of academic topics. Scholarpedia and Wikipedia are alike in many respects: both allow anyone to propose revisions to almost any article both are “wikis” …
