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Chemical From Plastic Water Bottles Found Throughout Oceans, by Brandon Keim “A survey of 200 sites in 20 countries around the world has found that bisphenol A, a synthetic compound that mimics estrogen and is linked to developmental disorders, is ubiquitous in Earths oceans. Bisphenol A, or BPA, is found mostly in shatter-proof plastics and …
Understanding Why Users Tag: A Survey of Tagging Motivation Literature and Results from an Empirical Study, Markus Strohmaier, Christian Körner, Roman Kern. Journal of Web Semantics, preprint server. “While recent progress has been achieved in understanding the structure and dynamics of social tagging systems, we know little about the underlying user motivations for tagging, and …
Elissa Blattman: “The website for the National Women’s History Museum is – www.nwhm.org. The museum recently launched a new exhibit called “From Ideas to Independence: A Century of Entrepreneurial Women,” which you can link to from the main page. This is a virtual museum that is trying to get the last spot on the National …
Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving, Low Income Students. SIEPR Discussion Paper 12-014, by Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner. Published: 03/28/13 “Only a minority of high-achieving, low-income students apply to colleges in the same way that other high-achieving students do: applying to several selective colleges whose curriculum is designed for students with a level of achievement …
“Nearly half of commuters self-reported texting while driving in a recent poll, and 43% of those who did called it a habit. Commuters are texting and driving even more than teens 49%1, compared to 43%2. And the problem has gotten worse. Six in 10 commuters say they never texted while driving three years ago. …
Thomas Johnson, Indexing Linked Bibliographic Data with JSON-LD, BibJSON and Elasticsearch: “Linked Data is a powerful tool for sharing bibliographic metadata. By combining the decentralization of the web with the use of globally defined metadata vocabularies, data from many sources can be treated as a single, aggregated graph. Supporting search across these distributed data sources …
Frans De Waal: “How do you give a chimpor an elephant or an octopus or a horsean IQ test? It may sound like the setup to a joke, but it is actually one of the thorniest questions facing science today. Over the past decade, researchers on animal cognition have come up with some ingenious solutions …
“Google is killing Google Reader…What Google has actually done is create a powerful infrastructure. The shape of that infrastructure influences everything that goes online. And it influences the allocation of mental resources of everyone who interacts with the online world. But there isn’t much to the real human world that isn’t shaped by the mental …
Mapping the Dead: Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook Posted: 03/22/2013 6:07 pm EST | Updated: 03/22/2013 11:29 pm EST: “The Huffington Post compiled news reports of gun-related homicides and accidental deaths in the U.S. since the massacre in Newtown, Conn. on the morning of Dec. 14.” [Note: there have been 2,243 Americans killed with guns …
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, David White, Donna Lanclos, & Alison Le Cornu. 2013. Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment? Information Research, 18,1 (paper 556). “The project is an attempt to fill the gap in user behavior studies identified in the JISC Digital Information Seeker Report…Although the project continues through 2014, the …
The Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q1 2013 “Predictive analytics enables firms to reduce risks, make intelligent decisions, and create differentiated, more personal customer experiences. But predictive analytics is hard to do without the right tools and technologies, given the increasing challenge of storing, processing, and accessing the volume, velocity, and variety of …
“The National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 2005 that is dedicated to the development and enhancement of a national infrastructure for the recycling of used electronics in the U.S. If you are searching for electronics recycling options in your area, please see the Recycling Basics section of our …
