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“Staff from the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a joint report analyzing the significant volatility in the U.S. Treasury market on October 15, 2014. Using …
“The Global Genome Initiative (GGI) is a collaborative effort to create a solid foundation for genomic research through a global network of biorepositories and research organizations. The GGI will preserve and study genomic diversity and increase access to genomic information from the key branches of the Tree of Life––expanding our contribution to the preservation and …
“At present, the Office of the Chief Actuary, at the Social Security Administration, does not reveal in full how its forecasts are made and, as a result, no other person, party, or organization, in or out of government, has been able to make fully independent quantitative evaluations of policy proposals about Social Security. Even the …
Check-Off Programs: Observations from the Propane and Heating Oil Programs, GAO-15-769T: Published: Jul 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 10, 2015. HUD Public and Indian Housing Programs: Progress on Prior GAO Recommendations to Enhance Accountability and Efficiency, GAO-15-747T: Published: Jul 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 10, 2015. Inspectors General: Additional Efforts Needed by the Department of …
Oh my and what a surprise – not! via the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) July 10, 2015 – Adults Meeting Fruit and Vegetable Intake Recommendations — United States, 2013 “Eating more fruits and vegetables adds nutrients to diets, reduces the risk for heart disease, stroke, and some cancers, and helps manage body weight …
BBC Future: There are a handful of people left on Earth who have been alive in three separate centuries, says Rachel Nuwer. What can they – and those of a similarly extreme age – teach us? “Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries – …
“The Center for an Urban Future is proud to report that our research helped lay the groundwork for an enormous win for the libraries and the millions of New Yorkers who use them. Late last month, Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito agreed on a city budget for fiscal year 2016 that increases funding for …
For all those who do not recollect or may not know how the internet evolved from ARPANET in 1969 to the web of 2015 with its data analytics, e-commerce profiling and of course, global surveillance, I recommend 40 maps that explain the internet by Timothy B. Lee via Vox, posted on June 2, 2014: “The …
Gruber, Aya, When Theory Met Practice: Distributional Analysis in Critical Criminal Law Theorizing (July 9, 2015). Fordham Law Review, Vol. 83, No. 3211, 2015. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2628898 “Progressive (critical race and feminist) theorizing on criminal law exists within an overarching American criminal law culture in which the U.S penal system has become …
Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press – Adam Marshall, July 9, 2015: “With little public fanfare, seven federal agencies have announced a controversial trial program of publishing documents responsive to most Freedom of Information Act requests online. Under the program, known as a “Release-to-One is Release-to-All” policy, any member of the public will presumably …
Peter Singer – The Boston Review: “A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place, July 6, 2015: “Effective altruism is based on a very simple idea: we should do the most good we can. Obeying the usual rules about not stealing, cheating, …
Krebs, Shiri, The Efficacy of International Law and Its Fact-Finding Institutions: Experimental Tests (July 9, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2628967 “Do international law and institutions shape public opinion on contested events such as war crimes? Based on two novel survey experiments, this article finds that international fact-finding reports on war crimes investigations are …
