Category «Education»

The Most Dangerous Branch – Liberty and the presidency

“Jack Goldsmith [Executive Functions] speaks with Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, about his new book, Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times. They discuss why the executive is the most dangerous branch of government, the importance of responsible executive branch lawyers, and contemporary debates over the …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Education, Legal Research, Recommended Books

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

Harvard Business Review: “A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout…AI promises to act as an amplifier that will drive efficiency and make work easier, but workers that are using these AI tools report that they are intensifying rather than simplifying work. This …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Health Care, Internet, Social Media

Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, scientists now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs

The Verge – no paywall – You Could Be Next – The Verge and New York Magazine. “The LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects

Colossal: “In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects, many …

Subjects: Education, Internet

27 Ways to Access Scientific Research

Card Catalog: A complete guide to finding, reading, and evaluating scientific papers — and knowing what questions matter before you trust the findings. Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS: “We are living through a strange moment in the history of knowledge. More information is available to more people than at any point in human history, and yet …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Medicine, Search Engines

National Gallery of Art – Free Images and Open Access

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: “Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. More than 60,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more as they become available. Our open data program is a natural extension of the National Gallery’s mission: …

Subjects: Education

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him.

“….These are among 198 lawsuits in the past year identified by The New York Times [Gift Article] that challenge how Mr. Trump has leveraged federal funding to carry out his agenda without the consent of Congress. And they reflect one remarkable feature of the campaign: It has proceeded undeterred by losses in court. With that …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Economy, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research

“A mass disaster nonstop”: An inside look at the turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CDC

The New York Times Gift Article – Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C. Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable. The civil servants who spoke to me worry that, instead, a century’s worth of expertise is being …

Subjects: Congress, Education, Food and Nutrition, Free Speech, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

WorldMove – Human Mobility Dataset

What is WorldMove? WorldMove is an open access worldwide human mobility dataset, we follow a generative AI-based approach to create a large-scale mobility dataset for cities worldwide. Our method leverages publicly available multi-source data, including population distribution, points of interest (POIs), and synthetic commuting origin-destination flow datasets, to generate realistic city-scale mobility trajectories. A global …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Energy, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Tracking ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities

ICE Contracts Published on 2026-03-01 – Your Taxpayer Dollars Spent on the Following: Source: Department of Peace Countries: United States Download Size: 17.04 MB Download: Link Magnet: Link Torrent: Link This posting was done by anonymous person or persons: “Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities ranging from private businesses to government agencies …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Records, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Terrorism Research Center Study Introduces New Data Dashboard on Bias Murder in US

Terrorism Research Center: “Faculty members from the Department of Sociology & Criminology, Kayla Allison and Jeff Gruenewald recently published an article titled “An Open-Source Data Approach to Studying Bias Murder: An Introduction to the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB)” in the journal of >Homicide Studies. Housed in the University of Arkansas’ Terrorism Research Center (TRC), the BHDB provides students, researchers, and other …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research