Protecting Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory 2021

The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory – Protecting Youth Mental Health: “…Recent national surveys of young people have shown alarming increases in the prevalence of certain mental health challenges—in 2019, one in three high school students and half of female students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, an overall increase of 40% from 2009. We …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Social Media

These 200 global companies have top-rated climate strategies

Quartz: “…In its latest summary of company disclosures, published Dec. 7, CDP reported that in 2021, about 13,000 companies globally disclosed some form of climate data and strategy. That group represents 64% of global market capitalization, according to CDP. But just 1.5% of those—200 companies—scored an A. The list, included in full below, includes companies …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Data Governance, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

US Climate Resilience Map: Pathways for City Solutions

“The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock) today launched the US Climate Resilience Map: A Pathway for City Solutions. This new, publicly available online tool is the first-of-its-kind to map both climate risk and social vulnerability across the United States, arming city leaders and community members with census tract-level understanding and visualization of local …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Housing

Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2021 – Chapters 1 and 2

Menell, Peter S. and Lemley, Mark A. and Merges, Robert P. and Balganesh, Shyamkrishna, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2021 – Chapters 1 and 2 (July 11, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3884159 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3884159 “Rapid advances in digital and life sciences technology continue to spur the evolution of intellectual property law. As professors …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Copyright, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Bruce Mehlman’s Top 2022 Risks Deck

Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Castagnetti – his 29 slide deck is titled Living in Limbo – Anticipating the Top 2022 Risks in Politics & Policy “Uncertainty, volatility & disruption are the new normal. 2022 will neither be the best of times nor worst of times. COVID won’t magically go away nor kill us all. The …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Health Care, Transportation

The International ILL Toolkit a crowd-sourced tool for global resource sharing

OCLC: “Join this webinar on 17 February 2022, Time 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America] to learn about the International ILL Toolkit, a freely available, crowd-sourced effort designed to promote and enable greater ease of global sharing among libraries. The International ILL Toolkit is a freely available, crowd-sourced effort, initiated by the OCLC SHARES resource sharing …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Keep it Locked – A special issue about protecting yourself in extreme circumstances

The Verge: “Security isn’t just about passwords and databases. It cuts down to the most basic questions of what we need to protect ourselves and the people we care about. So this week, we’re bringing you stories about how people protect themselves in the most extreme conditions — whether it’s Muslims navigating FBI surveillance or …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy, Social Media

Top 25 News Photos of 2021

The Atlantic – “As we approach the end of the year, here is a look back at some of the major news events and moments of 2021. The breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 set the stage for a contentious year in the United States, and COVID-19 variants and regional surges slowed worldwide …

Subjects: Congress, Knowledge Management