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Via LLRX – How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike – Natural disasters have affected nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a recent FEMA survey found a large drop in how many people are signed up to receive emergency …
“The global information environment is under significant pressure from the development of new technologies and shifting public policies. How do experts around the world perceive the varied features of, and threats to, the information environment in their countries of expertise? In June 2024, the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) surveyed 412 researchers from …
Theda Skocpol (Harvard University; A..D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell), Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy — Roots and Responses Abstract: Why is US democracy facing an existential crisis this year? While some focus on the persona and rhetoric of Donald Trump, or stress underlying institutional distortions and polarizing social divisions, Skocpol highlights and explains the recent …
“The new Digital Library of the Museo del Prado, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 magazine issues and 6,000 books specializing in artistic literature and published between the end of the 15th and early 20th centuries. More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloguing …
Ars Technica: “Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language that many people outside of math and science simply do not speak, largely because they are flummoxed and/or intimidated by the sheer density of all …
Intelligencer via MSN – “A new book shows just how much sway the mysterious right-wing Catholic group has — and might have over Trump’s next term… Details of the Opus Dei network in the American capital are a significant part of a new, deeply researched book by British financial journalist Gareth Gore, Opus: The Cult …
MIX: “A few years ago, archiving specialist Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services did a survey of its vaults and discovered an alarming trend: Of the thousands and thousands of archived hard disk drives from the 1990s that clients ask the company to work on, around one-fifth are unreadable. Iron Mountain has a broad customer …
MakeUseOf: Quick Links What Is Bloomberg Connects, and What Can You Use It For? What Places Can You Visit With Bloomberg Connects? How Does Bloomberg Connects Compare With Google Arts & Culture? Key Takeaways Bloomberg Connects offers guides to partnered museums and cultural institutions across the globe. Besides museums, you’ll find botanical gardens, historic cemeteries, …
Press release: “On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, on behalf of a proposed class of scientists and scholars who provided manuscripts or peer review, alleging …
citation needed, Molly White – Big publishers think libraries are the enemy. The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read: “I’ve seen quips to the effect of “if public libraries were invented today, they’d be outlawed.” The joke …
Pew Research Center: “Digital sources have become an important part of Americans’ news diets – with social media playing a crucial role, particularly for younger adults. Overall, just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they at least sometimes get news from social media, up slightly compared with the last few years. News consumption on …
Data is Plural: “The Getty Vocabularies, published by the Getty Research Institute, “contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, visual surrogates, art conservation, and bibliographic materials.” They provide definitions, relationships, translations, and disambiguations for a broad range of terms and entities. Their Art & Architecture Thesaurus, for example, describes 57,000+ generic concepts …
