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Summary findings from the ethnicity facts and figures website: “This report provides an overview of the main findings from the first release of data from the Race Disparity Audit. As well as a review of each topic on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website, the report presents an overview of disparities that have most impact …
A globe which lets you see how the continents have shifted during the last 600 million years… [Via Simon Kuestenmacher] – “What an amazing piece of work! This interactive globe shows the ancient earth throughout #history. Great way to better understand plate tectonics. A must for everyone interested in #geology and #geography.”
“Today, my colleague Rahul Bhargava and I are pleased to launch the Data Culture Project. This is the latest evolution of our DataBasic.io work, now focused on helping organizations build a data culture in creative, hands-on ways. We often talk about data literacy as if it’s an individual capacity, but what about data literacy for …
Slate: They Were Trained for This Moment – How the student activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High demonstrate the power of a comprehensive education: “…Consumers and businesses are stepping in where the government has cowered. Boycotts may not influence lawmakers, but they certainly seem to be changing the game in the business world. And the …
Harvard Business Review: “Are academic journals impartial? While many would suggest that academic journals work for the advancement of knowledge and science, we show this is not always the case. In a recent study, we find that two international relations (IR) journals favor articles written by authors who share the journal’s institutional affiliation. We term this …
The Guardian – For centuries, lexicographers have attempted to capture the entire English language. Technology might soon turn this dream into reality – but will it spell the end for dictionaries? “Ninety years after the first edition appeared, the OED – a distant, far bulkier descendant of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary – is currently embarked on …
Fruehwald, Edwin S., Understanding and Overcoming Cognitive Biases for Lawyers and Law Students: Becoming a Better Lawyer Through Cognitive Science: Chapter One – An Introduction to Cognitive Biases (February 8, 2018). Understanding and Overcoming Cognitive Biases for Lawyers and Law Students: Becoming a Better Lawyer Through Cognitive Science (2018); ISBN-13: 978-1985130135. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3120662 …
JSTOR Daily: “Visit your local public library today and you may find rows of kids playing computer games, or even a couple of Xboxes. That might seem like evidence that libraries have drifted from a pure focus on the printed word. But, as gaming scholar Scott Nicholson finds, gaming at the library is a tradition …
The Guardian.com: “Children are increasingly finding it hard to hold pens and pencils because of an excessive use of technology, senior paediatric doctors have warned. An overuse of touchscreen phones and tablets is preventing children’s finger muscles from developing sufficiently to enable them to hold a pencil correctly, they say. “Children are not coming into …
Hyperallergic – The Ancient Graffiti Project is now fundraising to conduct fieldwork of graffiti at Herculaneum this summer. “Since the 1800s, archaeologists have found several thousand examples of these notes at Pompeii, and hundreds at Herculaneum. They appear in public settings, left like latrinalia or tags, and even inside private houses. Scholars consider them an ancient …
Via Maria Concannon, Govt Documents Coordinator, University of Missouri Libraries: “I’m writing to bring your attention to our LibGuide Prices and Wages by Decade…This guide points to government publications listing retail prices for common items or “necessities of life.” Prices for foods, articles of clothing, household items, appliances, hardware, fuel and other physical goods fall …
Read this and weep – and then get busy – please: How “active shooter” drills became normal for a generation of American schoolchildren. “…Since Columbine, 32 states have passed laws requiring schools to conduct lockdown drills to keep students safe from intruders. Some states went even further after 20 children died in Newtown, Connecticut, in …
