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University of Florida News: “Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws. So concludes a group of nearly two dozen scientists in a paper appearing this week in the journal Bioscience. …
The Case of the Vanishing Oaks, By Virginia Morell, ScienceNOW Daily News “When Lewis and Clark crossed America’s heartland, they tramped through wide swaths of oak forests. But today, the oaks are in decline, and as they vanish so too does a whole coterie of native herbaceous plants critical to forest ecosystems, according to a …
CNN: “The program is called A-Space, and it’s a social-networking site for analysts within the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies…The new A-Space site has been undergoing testing for months and launches officially for the nation’s entire intelligence community September 22…”
E-Discovery Update: Producing Spreadsheets in Discovery 2008 In spite of great financial investment to produce these documents in a way that satisfies competing litigation needs of authenticity and full native functionality, litigants continue to disagree on a production format for these documents, according to Conrad J. Jacoby.
Early responses to Mercer’s annual survey indicate cost will rise 5.7 percent next year, September 4, 2008: “After three years of double-digit growth in the first half of the decade, annual health benefit cost increases slowed to about 6 percent in 2005 and have stayed there ever since. Preliminary survey findings released today by Mercer …
“Moscow is the worlds most expensive city for expatriates for the third consecutive year, according to the latest Cost of Living Survey from Mercer. Tokyo is in second position climbing two places since last year, where as London drops one place to rank third. Oslo climbs six places to 4th place and is followed by …
Government Transition 2009 Wiki: “As Senators John McCain and Barack Obama forge their Presidential election strategies, a different kind of race is brewing: A race to put forth new ideas, lessons learned, and specific recommendations for managing the next administration by a wide array of agencies, trade groups and others with a vested interested in …
News release: “Extending more than 50 years of supercomputing leadership, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced today that they have finalized their contract with IBM to build the world’s first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research. This leadership-class project, called Blue Waters, is …
USP’s Drug Error Finder – Lookalike/Soundalike Drug Names: “As a service to healthcare practitioners, industry, consumers, and others, USP has developed a free tool for accessing drug names that have been identified with a medication error. USP’s Drug Error Finder allows a user to search more than 1,400 drugs involved in lookalike and/or soundalike errors. …
News release: “A new study clearly finds that Americas public libraries are breaking through traditional brick-and-mortar walls to serve more people online and in person. Americas 16,543 public library buildings are leveraging technology to help children succeed in school and support lifelong learning. More than 83 percent now offer online homework resources, including live tutors …
The Art of Written Persuasion: The Problem with the Case Method and the Case for the Problem Method: In this second article in the series, Troy Simpson suggests that the case method of teaching law may help to explain why lawyers write badly. He then outlines some of the advantages of the problem method of …
The Future Actions Series – International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR): Seven Years After 9/11: Al-Qaidas Strengths and Vulnerabilities, Richard Barrett, September 2008. “The core Al-Qaida leadership remains in place, but it is still far from recovering the position of strength that it enjoyed in 2001; the appeal of Al-Qaida …
