Photography then and now
The Guardian – “Two photographs taken from exactly the same viewpoint at different times in history” – from around the world. I recommend looking at all the photos beginning here.
CDC Guidance Dramatically Under-Represents Classroom Student Capacity Under 6′ Social Distancing
Benjamin S. Kay, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 9, 2021 – “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides sample classroom layouts that promote 6-foot social distancing during in-person education. These sample 30′ by 30′ classroom layouts hold at most 9 students while complying with the 6-foot social distancing requirement. …
Search Scholarly Materials Preserved in the Internet Archive
Internet Archive Blogs – “Looking for a research paper but can’t find a copy in your library’s catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF from a “vanished” Open Access publisher in our web archive, an author’s pre-publication manuscript from their archived faculty webpage, or a digitized …
World Nature Photography Awards 2020
“We are absolutely delighted to announce our 2020 winners, in an inaugural year that saw entries flow in from all four corners of this most precious globe of ours. It also gives us great pleasure to hand the title of World Nature Photographer of the Year to Thomas Vijayan for his image ‘The world is …
The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
Newlines Institute – “This report is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China. It was undertaken by the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, in response to emerging accounts of serious and systematic …
You Know It’s Bad When The Court Decision Has A Table Of Contents: Part Deux
Above The Law -“…In DR Distributors, LLC v. 21 Century Smoking, Inc., originally filed in 2012, two companies that sell electronic cigarettes brought suit and counterclaims alleging, among other things, trademark violations under the Lanham Act. The court’s decision is 256 pages long. Like the Smalls decision 18 months ago, this decision was at times …
Machine Learning Shows Social Media Greatly Affects COVID-19 Beliefs
Health Analytics: “Using machine learning, researchers found that people’s biases about COVID-19 and its treatments are exacerbated when they read tweets from other users, a study published in JMIR showed. The analysis also revealed that scientific events, like scientific publications, and non-scientific events, like speeches from politicians, equally influence health belief trends on social media. …
Teaching Technology to (Future) Lawyers
Barczentewicz, Mikolaj, Teaching Technology to (Future) Lawyers (February 23, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3791608 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3791608 “The paper offers a reflection on how applications of computer technology (including data analytics) are and may be taught to (future) lawyers and what are the benefits and limitations of the different approaches. There is a growing sense among …
The World’s 2021 Most Innovative Companies
Fast Company – “Business as usual is over. Companies around the globe, in every industry, have spent the past 12 months confronting challenges both practical and existential. Some have failed. Many have simply survived. A select few have flourished, remaking their businesses and illuminating the way forward for others. These are the businesses we’re celebrating …
Everything you can do once you’re vaccinated against Covid-19
Quartz – “On March 8, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its long-awaited guidelines on the kinds of behaviors that are safe for people vaccinated against Covid-19. Under them, people who have waited two weeks after their final shot should be able to safely socialize indoors with other households outside their bubble—provided …
How to make your laptop go faster for free
PC World – “If your old laptop needs a little more pep in its step, there’s an easy fix most people overlook: the performance settings. These settings reside in most laptops, usually via a preinstalled utility. The vast majority of laptop users never poke around in there—and you shouldn’t need to, if all you do …
How to block ad tracking on your iPhone
The Verge – Keep your apps from uploading your data — mostly: “…As we all know by now, data is a huge commodity these days. If you use a phone, laptop, or any type of computing device (unless you’re a security expert or a high-end hacker with access to sophisticated blocking tools), you’re paying for …