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Emerging Pathogens Institute: “University of Florida researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records. The scientists analyzed more than 21 million calls to determine how often residents of Zanzibar travel and where they go. A semi-autonomous region composed …
New York Times: “83 children, ages 7, 9 and 11…participated in a study on children and keyword searching. Sponsored by Google and developed by the University of Maryland and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the research was aimed at discerning the differences between how children and adults search and identify the barriers children face when …
News release: “Nearly 60,000 books prized by historians, writers and genealogists, many too old and fragile to be safely handled, have been digitally scanned as part of the first-ever mass book-digitization project [which is called Digitizing American Imprints] of the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC), the worlds largest library. Anyone who wants to learn about …
The Customer Is Always Right – Since founding Amazon in 1994, he has revolutionized retailing. Now he’s out to transform how we read. By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK. “There are two ways that companies can extend what they’re doing. One is they can take an inventory of their skills and competencies, and then they can …
TIME – 50 Best Websites 2009: “50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.”
Forbes: “If people can read this story a millennium from now, they may have Tadahiro Kuroda to thank. Kuroda, an electrical engineering professor at Keio University in Japan, has invented what he calls a “Digital Rosetta Stone,” a wireless memory chip sealed in silicon that he says can store data for 1,000 years. As technology …
Forbes: Eyeglasses are as old as the Renaissance, but even now we still need trained professionals to fit them. That’s no problem for the Western world, which has around one optometrist for roughly every 10,000 people. But it’s a nightmare for developing countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, there’s only one optometrist for around 1 …
Wired Science: “When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meets in 2014, tipping points or tipping elements, in academic vernacular will get much more attention. Scientists still disagree about which planetary systems are extra-sensitive to climate shifts, but the possibility cant be ignored. The problem with tipping elements is that if any of …
LLRX.com: Understanding the Limitations – and Maximizing the Value- of eBooks: The holiday season is here, and many signs suggest that thousands of people are finding themselves new owners of electronic book (“eBook”) readers. Whether it’s an Amazon Kindle, a Barnes & Noble Nook, a Sony Reader, or any of the less heavily advertised devices …
Project Management – A Law Librarian Survival Skill: Carol A. Watson discusses how effective project management requires considerable thought and preparation before actually initiating the work of the project. Although many of us are eager to jump into the tasks related to a project, it is important to remember that careful planning will provide the …
News release: “The combination of near-record Arctic sea-ice loss and continued development of oil and gas in proposed polar bear critical habitat spells double trouble for Alaskas polar bears, according to a new report issued by the National Wildlife Federation and the Northern Alaska Environmental Center. Mapping out recently proposed polar bear critical habitat relative …
Robin Wauters: “Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza has for the second time put together a visualization that shows the most popular social networks around the world on a map, based on the most recent traffic data (December 2009) as measured by Alexa & Google Trends for Websites.” ComputerWorld – 2009: Social networks go …
