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Rocked by pandemic politics, the nation’s shield against infectious disease is shrinking. Washington Post – sub reqd. “Vaccination rates among kindergarten students have plunged across broad swaths of the United States since before the pandemic, exposing children and families to increasing health risks as many school districts pull back from their traditional role as a …
Thomson Reuters – Impact of AI on critical thinking – Challenges and opportunities for lawyers: “The increasing sophistication of AI, particularly “agentic AI,” presents both a risk of diminished critical thinking due to cognitive offloading and an opportunity to enhance critical thinking in the legal profession through intelligent design and application. The increasing sophistication of …
Via LLRX – 10 Tips for Prosperity and Profit in 2026 – Jerry Lawson advocates consulting more than one AI app when dealing with important issues. Multiple AI perspectives help with high-stakes questions, unsettled law, or anything involving tax regulations. When two models agree, you gain confidence. When they disagree, you gain a warning sign. Lawson …
Via LLRX – How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – AI has flooded the zone, overwhelming one on one human knowledge sharing. In this article Hana Lee Goldin returns the focus to the art of the reference interview. When someone has a research or information based request, librarians are trained to figure out …
Wes Silver’s Newsletter The Fish and Wildlife Service’s over-holiday review, and what it means for 850 million acres of public land and water – “Of all our public acres, it’s wildlife refuges that rely most on conservation rather than preservation. The system was conceived by the Boone and Crocket Club, an early advocate for what’s …
Via LLRX – Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part I) – Stephen Embry and Melissa Rogo Rogozinski identify the multiple risk factors involved in the increasing usage of AI in the legal sector, including infrastructure gaps between chip capacity, demand for energy sources and building new data centers, as …
Pic Detective – Reverse Image Search – Upload any photo to find its original source, discover who else is using it, or locate higher resolution versions. Free, fast, and no account needed. Pic Detective is powered by advanced visual recognition technology that goes beyond simple pixel matching. When you upload an image, our system analyzes …
JournalistsTookBox.AI: “2025 will be remembered as a year newsrooms really began to embrace AI tools and find innovative ways to implement them into their workflow. I’ve featured dozens of examples of award-winning AI projects on the Journalist’s Toolbox cool examples page. The year will also be remembered for Google’s surge ahead of OpenAI in the AI …
The New Republic: “Looking to turn a quick profit, the firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake…For roughly the past 20 years, private equity firms have been on a buying spree of health care businesses, like hospitals, surgical centers, physician practices, nursing homes, …
Reframing misinformation as informational-systemic risk in the age of societal volatility – Misinformation Review, December 22, 2025, Nuurrianti Jalli – “When a bank run, a pandemic, or an election spirals out of control, the spark is often informational. In 2023, rumors online helped accelerate the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. During COVID-19, false claims about vaccines …
Der Spiegel Guest Editorial by Eva Berendsen – political scientist and head of the communication and online education department at the Anne Frank Educational Center in Frankfurt. She has written extensively about the effects of social media on memory an artificial intelligence’s influence on racism and anti-Semitism. “Imagine for a moment your 13‑year‑old child stumbling across …
Democracy Docket – “The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots…By the time the overhaul is finished, it’ll affect pick-ups at roughly 24,000 of the country’s 33,700 post …