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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Europe Air Pollution, BBC Archives, Food Waste, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, June 17, 2021

Europe Air Pollution, BBC Archives, Food Waste, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, June 17, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

European Environment Agency: New European city air quality viewer allows you to check long term air pollution levels where you live . “Air pollution is a serious problem in many European cities, posing a real risk to health. Today, the European Environment Agency (EEA) launched the European city air quality viewer. You can check how the air quality has been over the past two years in the city where you live and compare it with other cities across Europe.”

Radio Times: BBC reveals new archive that allows access to 200,000 programmes – and early editions of Radio Times. “Formerly known as BBC Genome, the BBC’s Programme Index now makes the broadcaster’s archive more accessible than ever, with viewers able to browse over 10 million listings, 200,000 playable programmes and even early editions of Radio Times magazine.”

USDA: Virtual USDA Food Loss and Waste Innovation Fair Available On-Demand. “In the United States, more than one-third of all available food goes uneaten through loss or waste and when landfilled it contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. On May 26, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture hosted our first ever USDA Food Loss and Waste Innovation Fair. This free, virtual fair highlighted businesses that are creating or implementing state-of-the-art technical solutions to reduce food loss and waste throughout the food system – from farm to table – and highlighted USDA activities in this space.”

Weirton Daily Times: Weirton museum to unveil online WSX Bulletin archive. “As part of local observations of West Virginia Day, the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center will officially unveil the new online archive of the Weirton Steel Employees Bulletin. The unveiling will be held in-person and livestreamed on the museum’s Facebook page at 10:45 a.m., Saturday.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Ausdroid: Google improves their online education tools for teaching kids to be safe online.. “Four years ago Google lunched ‘Be Internet Awesome’, an online training program designed to assist teachers and parents teach young children about safe internet behaviours. Today they have announced an expansion to the program introducing 11 new lesions and refinements to the original content.”

The Guardian: Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews. “Amazon has blamed social media companies for its failure to remove fake reviews from its website, arguing that ‘bad actors’ turn to social networks to buy and sell fake product reviews outside the reach of its own technology.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

The News Minute: Google Maps shows ‘underwater island’ in Arabian Sea near Kochi, experts to probe. “A bean shaped ‘island’ in the Arabian sea, a little distance away from the west coast of Kerala’s Kochi, seen on Google Maps satellite imagery, has perplexed many. The reason? Though the island-like formation seems to be about half the size of west Kochi or Pashchima Kochi, no ‘visible’ structure that is even remotely close to an island has been observed in the sea.”

Bloomberg Quint: Google to Open First Retail Store Steps Away From Apple in NYC. “The store, in Manhattan’s trendy Chelsea neighborhood, will open to the public Thursday, the Mountain View, California-based company said Wednesday in a blog post. The shop, which is a block away from rival Apple Inc.’s 14th Street store, occupies part of the first floor of Google’s New York offices.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

UK Government: Boost for open justice as court judgments get new home. “The website will host thousands of court judgments, saving time and money for lawyers, judges, academics, journalists, students and members of the public who require them for vital case preparation or research purposes. Judicial Review rulings, European case law, commercial judgments and many more cases of legal significance from the High Court, Upper Tier Tribunal, and the Court of Appeal will be readily available to anyone from April 2022.”

Reuters: Court Says Google Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Hiding Security Risks . “A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc. accused the company of fraudulently concealing security vulnerabilities, including in its Google+ social network.” Good evening, Internet…

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Preserving Food, Community Fridges, North Carolina Black History, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, June 17, 2021

Preserving Food, Community Fridges, North Carolina Black History, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, June 17, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Morning AgClips: Preserving the Harvest with FCHS. FCHS refers to Rutgers University’s Cooperative Extension’s Department of Family and Community Health Sciences. “The website provides free access to a bounty of preservation resources including techniques such as freezing, dehydrating, and canning in glass jars. Users will also be able to find reliable recordings, classes, links, and tested recipes for some of their favorite produce.”

New-to-me, from Food & Wine: F&W Game Changers: Fridges for All. “Unlike food pantries or other forms of food assistance, community fridges don’t attract large crowds or require interpersonal contact, making them particularly COVID-friendly. Masked volunteers fill the fridges with groceries purchased thanks to donations, often through Venmo or Cash App, and community members can add food to the fridges, too. While the concept has existed for years, the coronavirus pandemic has spurred a surge in community-generated support; fridges have become vital sources of fresh, easily accessible foods in Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, Chicago, and more cities around the country.”

Chowan Herald: African American Experience launches on Juneteenth. “A regional tourism initiative designed to connect people with Black heritage and historical sites will kick off Saturday. The African American Experience of Northeast North Carolina highlights the contributions of African Americans while encouraging a better understanding of the region’s cultural heritage.” The site includes a “digital heritage trail” of the historical sites.

The Verge: New website tracks which colleges will use eproctoring software this fall. “The platforms — like ProctorU and Proctorio — often make use of students’ webcams to watch and record them as they work, using automated systems or live monitors to flag possible signs of cheating. The practice has sparked controversy in the US, with critics in both academia and government citing privacy concerns and the potential for such software to discriminate against marginalized students. Still, some colleges began using eproctoring last year to watch for dishonesty on take-home exams, after moving testing online due to COVID-19.”

Ecotextile News: GoBlu launches Kyna Intel free database. “Sustainability accelerator GoBlu International has launched a new online database which aims to provide the fashion and textiles industry with information to drive sustainable decision-making. GoBlu developed the curated, searchable database, called Kyna Intel, as a free service to help industry stakeholders navigate the news to find accurate and up-to-date information.”

EVENTS

WBIW: IMDPLA schedules Hoosier State Chronicles webinar. “On Wednesday, July 7 from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m., the Indiana Memory Digital Public Library of America Outreach Committee will present ‘History at Your Fingertips: A Guide to Indiana Memory and Hoosier State Chronicles.’ This webinar will be the first in a series of monthly discussions on a variety of topics related to digital collections work.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

The Hill: CNN to sell ‘Moments’ NFTs based on historic events recorded in digital archives. “CNN has started selling NFTs, or digital nonfungible tokens representing historical moments stored in its archives, although NFT purchasers will not own copyrights to the content or have any control over it.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

ZDNet: Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online. “On Thursday, WebsitePlanet, together with researcher Jeremiah Fowler, revealed the discovery of an online database belonging to CVS Health. The database was not password-protected and had no form of authentication in place to prevent unauthorized entry. Upon examination of the database, the team found over one billion records that were connected to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant, which owns brands including CVS Pharmacy and Aetna.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

EurekAlert: New Web Tool Fights Antibacterial Resistance. “In 1943, two scientists named Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria conducted an experiment to show that bacteria can mutate randomly, independent of external stimulus, such as an antibiotic that threatens a bacterial cells’ survival. Today the Luria-Delbrück experiment is widely used in laboratories for a different purpose–scientists use this classic experiment to determine microbial mutation rates. When performing the Luria-Delbrück experiment, scientists need efficient computer algorithms to extract reliable estimates of mutation rates from data, and they also need well-designed software tools to access these sophisticated algorithms.”

Michigan State University: MSU, Facebook develop research model to fight deepfakes. “Artificial intelligence experts from Michigan State University and Facebook partnered on a new reverse-engineering research method to detect and attribute deepfakes, which gives researchers and practitioners tools to better investigate incidents of coordinated disinformation using deepfakes as well as open new directions for future research.” Good afternoon, Internet…

June 18, 2021 at 02:15AM
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Climate Impact Science, Industrial and Labor Relations, United States Broadband, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, June 17, 2021

Climate Impact Science, Industrial and Labor Relations, United States Broadband, More: Thursday ResearchBuzz, June 17, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Making climate impact science more accessible to the public: ISIpedia launch. “The name ISIpedia is a short form for Inter-Sectoral Impacts Encyclopedia. It is based on research carried out under the Inter-sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) which is working with roughly 100 research groups worldwide. By systematically comparing the different computer simulations of climate impacts, the project is working towards consistent robust projections of climate change impacts across different sectors and scales. The ISIpedia portal is free, open-access and professional users can download the processed data used in the analyses as well as the raw data.”

Cornell Chronicle: Online [Industrial and Labor] publications open up wealth of workplace wisdom. “Scholars studying the shifting landscape of work can now dig deep into more than a half-century’s worth of knowledge from the ILR School’s digitized publications available on HathiTrust Digital Library, a vast collection of digitized content from libraries around the world.”

Axios: Exclusive: White House debuts new maps showing broadband vacuum. “The Biden administration Thursday unveiled a new mapping tool that shows much greater gaps in use of high-speed internet service across the U.S. than the government’s previous maps reported.”

Indianapolis Public Library: Indianapolis Public Library reveals digital archive of Indy Parks history. “The new Indy Parks collection includes photographs of 86 parks and golf courses, videos of historic events such as the U. S. Women’s Olympic Swimming Trials at Broad Ripple Park, and board meeting minutes ranging from 1908-2017. Community events, performances, and groundbreaking ceremonies make up the bulk of the collection, offering a unique visual record of Indianapolis’s past.”

EVENTS

Europeana Pro: Digital capacity building in the cultural heritage sector: the Portuguese Presidency Europeana conference. “On 3-4 June, Europeana and the National Library of Portugal hosted an online conference in partnership with Portugal’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union on building capacity for the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector. In this post, we tell you all about the event.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

University of Texas at Austin: Briscoe Center Acquires Archive of Renowned Photographer Robert Polidori. “Thanks to the generosity of a Chicago-area family, renowned photographer Robert Polidori’s photographic print archive has been donated to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. Consisting of more than 85,000 archive prints, the collection is valued at more than $30 million.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Columbian: Google to pay Washington $400,000 to settle campaign finance lawsuit. “Google has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle charges that it has not complied with Washington’s strict campaign finance laws, which require businesses to retain records of political ads they sell in the state. It’s the second time in three years that the tech giant has settled a campaign finance lawsuit in Washington. In 2018, Google paid $200,000, plus attorneys’ fees, to settle a similar lawsuit, but admitted no wrongdoing. This time, the company agreed it did not comply with state law, but still disputes whether the law applies the company.”

BBC: Why cyber gangs won’t worry about US-Russia talks. “What evidence is there that many ransomware gangs are based in Russia? The anonymous nature of the cyber world means it is often hard to know exactly who is doing the attacking and from where. However, over the last few years an undeniable pattern has been observed by experts that points in one distinct direction.”

WICZ: Wegmans Notifies Customers Of Database Security Breach. “Wegmans says they were notified of the issue by a third-party security researcher in mid-April. The company says the database contains customer phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, Shopper’s Club Card numbers, and passwords to Wegmans.com. However, Wegmans says all passwords were encrypted, so the actual characters for the passwords were not involved.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

VentureBeat: Facebook’s AI can copy the style of text in photos from a single word. “Facebook today introduced TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo from just a single word. The company claims that TextStyleBrush, which can edit and replace arbitrary text in images, is the first ‘unsupervised’ system of its kind that can recognize both typefaces and handwriting.”

It’s Nice That: Climate activism has a branding problem and this logo generator is here to help. “Austrian design studio Process has created the AI project Tokens for Climate Care, which creates original (and free-to-use) graphic symbols based on an organisation’s core mission.”

Harvard Business Review: How to Practice Responsible AI. “From predictive policing to automated credit scoring, algorithms applied on a massive scale, gone unchecked, represent a serious threat to our society. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, director of Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability at Twitter, joins Azeem Azhar to explore how businesses can practice responsible AI to minimize unintended bias and the risk of harm.” A podcast episode of just under 50 minutes. Unfortunately I did not see any reference to a transcript. I tweeted Harvard Business Review and I’ll update this if I hear anything back. UPDATE: Transcripts are available for paying subscribers only. Good afternoon, Internet…

June 17, 2021 at 11:15PM
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Shakespeare in the Royal Collection, The Jewish Quarterly, Silk Road Week, More: Tuesday Evening ResearchBuzz Part II, Electric Buzzaloo, June 15, 2021

Shakespeare in the Royal Collection, The Jewish Quarterly, Silk Road Week, More: Tuesday Evening ResearchBuzz Part II, Electric Buzzaloo, June 15, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

King’s College London: Five Objects connecting Shakespeare and the Royal Family. “Shakespeare in the Royal Collection is a three-year AHRC-funded research project exploring the relationship between Shakespeare and the royal family in the centuries since Shakespeare’s death. A team of researchers have created an online database containing all the Shakespeare-related items in the Royal Collection (including paintings, books, drawings, prints, letters, essays, decorative objects, furniture and photographs), which anyone can explore.”

Exact Editions: Subscriptions to The Jewish Quarterly now available on the Exact Editions platform. “Exact Editions is pleased to announce that individuals and institutions can once again purchase a subscription to The Jewish Quarterly. Subscribers will gain access to the full digital archive going back to its very first issue published in 1953 with over 200 back issues included.”

Shine (China): A Silk Road journey from antiquity to today. “The annual Silk Road Week will run from June 19 to 24 at the China National Silk Museum, offering professionals the opportunity to share their Silk Road stories and the latest research…. On June 18, the museum will launch the Silk Road Online Museum, a digital platform partnering with 40 museums from home and abroad. The digital museum will greatly expand the space for exhibits at the brick-and-mortar museum and build a bridge for sharing collections and hosting online exhibitions.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

CNET: Apple launches store for individual podcast subscriptions. “Apple Podcast Subscriptions are live as of Tuesday, letting you purchase membership to individual podcasts and channels of shows. The marketplace is live worldwide and includes shows from brands such as NPR, the Washington Post and CNN, as well as individual creators like Dave Chappelle, Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland.”

Marketing Dive: Volkswagen targets Pinterest auto shoppers with virtual test drive. “Pinterest’s digital offerings also allow Volkswagen to create a completely virtual shopping experience, another move that could help widen the brand’s reach. Instead of catering to only the consumers who can and are willing to physically visit a dealership and take the ID.4 on a test drive, Volkswagen is allowing people everywhere to operate the vehicle through a virtual simulation, and with 360-degree viewing capabilities that aim to lend further realism to the experience.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Dazed: An introduction to Palestinian women’s cinema by Habibi Collective. “Since 2018, Habibi Collective, which is operated by Assyrian Iraqi film programmer Róisín Tapponi, has been instrumental in circulating Palestinian women’s cinema. To discover and watch more films by women from South-West Asia and North Africa, check out Habibi Collective’s streaming service Shasha. The world’s first independent streaming service focusing on films from South-West Asia and North Africa, it was established by Tapponi in 2020. Here, they curate an introductory list to Palestinian women’s cinema, for a Western audience.”

Futurism: Oh No, Oil Companies Are Paying Social Media Influencers Now. “Surely, you may be telling yourself, surely no one is buying into an eco-friendly cross-country trip sponsored by big oil. But that’s exactly what’s happening, Earther reports. Just look at this disturbingly ironic post by lifestyle Cherrie Lynn Almonte that talks about the perils of climate change and how it threatens California’s iconic landscapes — right beneath a disclaimer that the post was paid for by Shell.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Week (India): Parliamentary panel summons Twitter officials on June 18. “Days after the Centre issued a notice to Twitter, a parliamentary panel headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has summoned top officials of the micro blogging site to depose before it on Friday and give a representation on prevention of misuse of the social media platform.”

Carscoops: Auto Group Is Taking Massachusetts To Court Over Voter-Approved ‘Right To Repair’ Law. “The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing General Motors, the former FCA brands, and other automakers, is going to trial to fight a voter-approved measure that would expand access to vehicle data in Massachusetts. The measure is part of a wider law in the state that would seek to help independent shops protect their ability to work with the increasingly complicated automotive technologies that define new vehicles and ultimately continue to repair new vehicles.” This applies to computer electronics, too, which is why I’m including this article. Good evening, Internet, again…

June 16, 2021 at 06:31AM
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Guantánamo Bay Detainees, Syracuse University Art, Muhammad Ali, More: Tuesday Evening ResearchBuzz, June 15, 2021

Guantánamo Bay Detainees, Syracuse University Art, Muhammad Ali, More: Tuesday Evening ResearchBuzz, June 15, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

New York Times: An Updated Tool for Tracking the Detainees of Guantánamo Bay. “A Times team has revamped an online database that makes it easier to learn about the roughly 780 prisoners who were taken there, including the 40 who remain.”

Syracuse University: Libraries Launches Biblio Gallery Online. “Syracuse University Libraries recently launched an online version of its Biblio Gallery. The Biblio Gallery, set up on the fourth floor of Bird Library, was created in 2007 as a student exhibition and study space. S. Ann Skiold, art librarian, has been curating the gallery since 2009 and has hosted numerous solo and group exhibits.”

PR Newswire: Ali Center Launches New Digital Museum and Archives as Part of Ali Festival (PRESS RELEASE). “For the first time ever, the Muhammad Ali Center is able to open up its archival collection and offer online exhibits for the world to experience as a way to extend Muhammad Ali’s global reach. The launch of the Center’s new digital museum and archives was specifically planned to be introduced during the annual Ali Festival, and on what would have been the 100th birthday of LeRoy Neiman, a longtime friend of Muhammad Ali’s.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

TechCrunch: Google’s AirTable rival, Tables, graduates from beta test to become a Google Cloud product. “Last fall, Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 introduced a new work-tracking tool called Tables, an AirTable rival that allows for tracking projects more efficiently using automation. Today, Google says Tables will officially ‘graduate’ from Area 120 to become an official Google product by joining Google Cloud, which it expects to complete in the next year.”

BetaNews: Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 OS leaks in full online, revealing a centered taskbar and Start menu, rounded corners, and widgets! . “Towards the end of the month, Microsoft is set to reveal the future of Windows. We already reported last week that Windows 10 is coming to an end, and its replacement might be Windows 11, or possibly Windows Sun Valley. Earlier today, some screenshots from the new OS appeared at Baidu, and then an iSO of the full operating system leaked on the web, confirming that it is indeed called Windows 11.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

El País: Why Amsterdam is home to a trove of archives on Spanish anarchism and the anti-Franco resistance. “A significant part of historical memory regarding Spain’s anarchist movement and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) can be found at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio Department of Health violated public records law, court finds. “A special master at the Ohio Court of Claims has sided with The Columbus Dispatch in a 13-month-long records dispute over death certificate data. Special Master Jeff Clark recommended in a June 9 report that the Ohio Department of Health turn over death certificate records contained in its Electronic Death Registration System database in response to the April 20, 2020 request.”

Competition and Markets Authority (UK): CMA to scrutinise Apple and Google mobile ecosystems. “The CMA has launched a market study into Apple’s and Google’s mobile ecosystems over concerns they have market power which is harming users and other businesses.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Introducing WebMeV 2.0: Online Tool for ‘Omics Data Analysis. “WebMeV was created in an effort to democratize bioinformatics processing of RNASeq data. What started as a standalone application has become a web-based application for intuitive GUI implementations of bioinformatics analyses.” WebMeV is free and open source.

Tech Policy Press: Researchers find Google serves nearly half of all ad traffic on fake news sites. “The study, Market Forces: Quantifying the Role of Top Credible Ad Servers in the Fake News Ecosystem, finds that 48% of all ad traffic on ‘fake’ news sites are served by Google, while 32% of ads served on ‘low quality’ sites rely on the firm.” Good evening, Internet…

June 16, 2021 at 04:21AM
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Maine Oysters, Arkansas Jobs, Connecticut Trails, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, June 15, 2021

Maine Oysters, Arkansas Jobs, Connecticut Trails, More: Tuesday ResearchBuzz, June 15, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

WMTW: Maine Oyster Trail showcases state’s growing oyster industry. “The Maine Oyster Trail takes oyster lovers from Ogunquit to Sorrento. Love Point Oysters is one of 150 oyster farms dotting the Maine coast and one of the dozens that are now part of the Maine Oyster Trail.”

KATV: Arkansas launching website for job-seekers, offering free job skills courses. “Arkansas Ready For Life is a new website meant to be a one-stop-shop for employment in the state. The site goes live on Wednesday and Arkansans will have access to more than a thousand job openings in the state and nine thousand courses teaching essential career skills.”

NBC Connecticut: New Website Allows Users to Explore Connecticut Public Trails. “In honor of National Trails Day, Connecticut Trail Finder is a free website where users can find trails in virtually every corner of the state. Users can start browsing trails by an interactive map or filtering by categories such as difficulty, distance or popularity.”

Environmental Defense Fund: New Group Calls on SEC to Strengthen Climate Protections for U.S. Financial System. “Experts with the brand new Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law (ICRRL) are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to strengthen protections from the dangers of climate change to our nation’s financial system and the millions of people who rely on it to sustain the American economy.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

USA Today: Negro Leagues stats officially incorporated into Baseball Reference’s database. “For the better part of three decades, Black baseball players competed on identical fields under the same rules as their white counterparts, but were considered inferior – even if their style of play and level of competition said otherwise. Last December, Major League Baseball took a giant step toward correcting that by officially elevating the Negro Leagues to major league status. The transformation takes another step forward Tuesday with Negro League statistics now listed alongside those of the American League and National League on Baseball-Reference.com.”

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law: Defending the Planet: A Columbia Law Podcast Hosted by Michael Gerrard. “Climate change cuts across every area of law—from property rights to human rights to contracts to constitutional law, international law, administrative law, and corporate governance. In Defending the Planet, Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and the founder and faculty director of the Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and leading experts go beyond the headlines and political ping-ponging to discuss combating the climate crisis using one of the most important and effective tools at our disposal: the law.”

USEFUL STUFF

MakeUseOf: How to Download All the Data Snapchat Has About You . “Like other social media apps, Snapchat allows you to download your entire history and the data it has collected about you. Luckily, the process is pretty easy. Here’s all you need to know about it.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

AKIPress: JICA to finance digitization of museum collections in Uzbekistan. “Representatives of Japan International Cooperation Agency met with the leadership of Cultural Heritage Agency of Uzbekistan to discuss grant assistance for implementation of the project on preservation of the cultural heritage of the Silk Road using digital archives.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

WTHR: Uncovered: Indianapolis women search for answers to cold cases. “Two Indianapolis women have joined a team to help push information about cold cases involving missing and murdered victims. Ashlee Fujawa and Anna Eaglin are co-founders of the interactive website ‘UNCOVERED.’ The pair is inviting the public to be part of an online version.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

International Telecommunication Union: Call for demos of virtual worlds at ITU Kaleidoscope. “ITU Kaleidoscope 2021: Connecting physical and virtual worlds, 6-10 December online, will share research on the persistent virtual realities and customized computer-generated environments giving life to ‘digital twins’ of people, places and things.”

WRAL TechWire: NASA wants to give entrepreneurs space technology – for free. “Though the NASA mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research, and the agency is congressionally mandated to pursue this mission, the agency recognizes that it can play a role in fostering startup companies and ecosystems.”

OTHER STUFF I THINK IS COOL

I was searching YouTube when I came across a channel called Mrs. Reid, the Science G. From her About page: “Me and my sisters would remix songs when we were younger (waaay before YouTube), so it’s safe to say, I have had years of practice on how to create songs. As a science educator, I get to blend my two loves: music and education and I’m so EXCITED to share this journey with you!!!” I don’t know any of the music she’s redone because I’m old, but I did enjoy a remixed Cardi B called BODY PARTS AND BODY REGIONS; her music tends to focus on Anatomy & Physiology topics. She also has some A&P lectures available. Really good and recommended. Good afternoon, Internet…

June 16, 2021 at 12:53AM
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Monday, June 14, 2021

Diverse Solar Suppliers, Missouri Newspapers, Gino Gallagher, More: Monday Evening ResearchBuzz, June 14, 2021

Diverse Solar Suppliers, Missouri Newspapers, Gino Gallagher, More: Monday Evening ResearchBuzz, June 14, 2021
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NEW RESOURCES

Solar Energy Industries Association: Solar Industry Launches Diverse Suppliers Database. “Today the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is releasing the Diverse Suppliers Database, a free platform that will highlight and elevate minority, women, disabled, veteran, and LGBTQ+ owned businesses operating in the solar and storage industries. More than 120 diverse companies are listed in the database, and the platform will remain open for submissions.”

Maryville Forum: Turn-of-the-century Maryville newspapers now digitized. “The State Historical Society of Missouri has added six newspapers from Nodaway County to its Missouri Digital Newspaper Project, making hundreds of pages of historical Nodaway County news available to the public searchable and free online.”

Belfast Media: Digital archive on life of INLA leader Gino Gallagher launched. “On 30 January 1996, the West Belfast man was gunned down in the Social Security Office on the Falls Road. The 32-year-old, who was then the [Irish National Liberation Army] Chief of Staff, was murdered amidst a feud involving the Republican Socialist Movement and a group of expelled INLA members. Announced on Mr Gallagher’s 25th anniversary, the archive will include photographs, newspaper clippings, videos and political writings.”

The Guardian: If the British understood taxes better, perhaps we would vote for them to be fairer. “TaxLab, an information service unveiled by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, is a wonder of elegant clarity, its impartial explainers revealing what everyone should know: and it’s guaranteed to surprise most people. Two years in construction, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Friends Provident Foundation funded it to create a better-informed electorate. A mouse-click shows that people in Britain pay less tax (in 2019 figures), at 33% of GDP, than the EU average of 39%, while in Denmark it’s 46%. Put in your pay and TaxLab shows exactly where you stand in the income pecking order: people wildly miscalculate, both rich and poor, placing themselves too near the middle. Young people are generous to older people, but if they understood the tax biases benefiting retired people they might be more likely to vote.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

BNN Bloomberg: Google revamps workspace to rival Microsoft, embrace remote work. “Google revealed a raft of updates to its Workspace productivity suite, including new features for free users, a paid plan for entrepreneurs and fresh capabilities for its Meet videoconferencing system in an effort to better compete with Microsoft Corp.’s products.”

AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD

Coinspeaker: Journey from Digital to Physical: 9 NFT Galleries You Can Physically Visit in 2021. “Before we go ahead and list down the 9 popular choices to visit, let’s recap our understanding of what exactly is an NFT. In simple words, these non-fungible tokens store digital data whose authenticity as well as ownership are defined by the blockchain technology used in their creation. Each token is unique to the digital data it stores and is not interchangeable like the regular currency. Here are the 9 most popular galleries to visit this year.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

IRS: IRS unveils online tool to help low-income families register for monthly Child Tax Credit payments. “The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today unveiled an online Non-filer Sign-up tool designed to help eligible families who don’t normally file tax returns register for the monthly Advance Child Tax Credit payments, scheduled to begin July 15. This tool, an update of last year’s IRS Non-filers tool, is also designed to help eligible individuals who don’t normally file income tax returns register for the $1,400 third round of Economic Impact Payments (also known as stimulus checks) and claim the Recovery Rebate Credit for any amount of the first two rounds of Economic Impact Payments they may have missed.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

ABC News (Australia): Phone app sees traditional Indigenous language revitalised. “Ngarluma language has been spoken for millennia in and around what is now Roebourne in Western Australia’s north-west. Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre recently launched a smartphone app designed to teach basic Ngarluma vocabulary through pictures, written words and audio.”

EurekAlert: How do social media influence ethnic polarization?. “Those who deactivated their Facebook profiles report a lower regard for other ethnic groups, and this effect was more prevalent among people living in more ethnically homogenous areas, shows a new study of users in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The findings run counter to a commonly held view that social media usage exacerbates societal polarization.” This paragraph doesn’t accurately the deactivation of user accounts. Deactivation was part of the experiment, but you could infer from the way this paragraph is written that the people who deactivate Facebook accounts are more likely to have certain personality traits. Unfortunately I could not find a better excerpt so now you have to read my whole long explanation. Good evening, Internet…

June 15, 2021 at 04:06AM
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