Category «Education»

How the Internet Rewired Work and What That Tells Us About AI’s Likely Impact

WSJ vai MSN: “Remember when America Online CDs carpeted America and “You’ve got mail” felt like the future? The internet did transform work—but not the way 1998 thought. The surprises weren’t just CEOs in hoodies and legions of coders. They were barbers with booking links, nurses on telehealth, and delivery jobs by the hundreds of …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ – with eight months left on its charter

Follow up to The DOGE Has Arrived and The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers – see Reuters: “President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries

ALA Library Technology Guides – [November 21, 2025] the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states. ALA President Sam Helmick …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect

Pagnini, F., Grosso, F., Cavalera, C. et al. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect [Full text available free]. npj Mental Health Res 4, 57 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-025-00171-5 Prosocial behavior, the act of helping others, is essential to social life, yet spontaneous environmental triggers for such behavior remain underexplored. This study tested whether an unexpected …

Subjects: Education

Charles Darwin’s address book: A new window into his private worl

PHYS.org: “Charles Darwin’s Address Book is a small brown leather notebook, with “VISITS” and “ADDRESSES” printed on its spine and index-letter tabs in alternating black and red. The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin’s personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management

Nursing Excluded as ‘Professional’ Degree By Department of Education

Nurse.org – The U.S. Department of Education has officially excluded nursing in its recently revamped definition of “professional degree” programs. This change occurs as part of the implementation of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) and has nursing organizations nationwide raising alarms. Graduate nursing students will lose access to higher federal loan limits previously …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Legislation

Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1)

Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) – Tanya Thomas raises the argument that we are training a generation of lawyers who rarely engage with the raw materials of their profession, and are increasingly consuming only the processed, pre-digested, AI-synthesized versions. Students are …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Librarians – documentary film on censorship

Via Kottke –  The Librarians – As part of the fascist war on “woke”, tens of thousands of books have been pulled from the shelves of libraries around the country over the past few years. On the front line are the nation’s librarians, “first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment rights”. The Librarians …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Privacy

The Law Firm Pyramid Rollover

The Law Firm Pyramid Rollover – Heather Suttie is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on legal market strategy and management of legal services firms. In this article she addresses how artificial intelligence, pricing, and transience of the legal service sector’s workforce will cause the traditional law firm pyramid structure to rollover …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web

Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web. Nicolas Steinacker-Olsztyn, Devashish Gosain, Ha Dao Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly relying on web crawling to stay up to date and accurately answer user queries. These crawlers are expected to honor this http URL files, which govern automated access. In this study, …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records

Harvard Law Today: “Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/.  On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines