Links

In keeping with the idea that I need to publish these more often, here are a bunch of links which are interesting / worth reading. Enjoy!

Education:

• White House Advisers Call for Big Changes to Improve Science Education    17 September 2010, 12:28 pm
• Engaging Girls in STEM    10 September 2010, 8:54 am
• Will Facilities Lure Internet-Enabled Students to Campus?    10 September 2010, 2:05 am
• Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled    5 September 2010, 11:33 am

Law:

• On Writing, Funding, and Distributing Software to Activists Against Authoritarian Regimes    17 September 2010, 1:02 pm
• Craigslist opens up about adult services ads    15 September 2010, 11:59 pm
• Sarah Palin Revisited: Why Terms of Use Shouldn’t Be Enforced Through Computer Crime Law    15 September 2010, 4:18 pm
• Anticensorship Tool Proves Too Good to Be True    15 September 2010, 2:53 pm
• Craigslist says it won’t resume adult services    15 September 2010, 2:34 pm
• John Doe Strikes Back: New Developments in the US Copyright Group (“Hurt Locker”) Cases    15 September 2010, 1:59 pm
• EFF Says Violating Company Policies Is Not a Computer Crime    15 September 2010, 8:30 am
• Is a Website’s Look and Feel Protected?    15 September 2010, 5:51 am
• Can Employers Review Electronic Messages?    14 September 2010, 2:15 am
• 9th Circuit’s Troubling New State Secrets Decision Demonstrates Need for Reform    13 September 2010, 6:24 pm
• “Magic Words” Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in Vernor v. Autodesk    13 September 2010, 9:14 am
• N.J. Court OKs Googling Jurors During Voir Dire    11 September 2010, 9:45 am
• Appeals court backs Chevron in Nigeria dispute    10 September 2010, 12:34 pm
• US judge: ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ unconstitutional    10 September 2010, 10:46 am
• Court: Tattoo parlors covered by 1st Amendment    10 September 2010, 12:07 am
• Judge: Military’s ban on gays is unconstitutional    9 September 2010, 7:33 pm
• Beyond “Censored”: What Craigslist’s “Adult Services” Decision Means for Free Speech    8 September 2010, 11:58 am
• Courts Still Wary of Hard Drive Review Requests    8 September 2010, 2:35 am
• Breaking News on EFF Location Privacy Win: Courts May Require Search Warrants for Cell Phone Location Records    7 September 2010, 12:07 pm
• Tech revolution spurs debate over antitrust law    5 September 2010, 12:44 am
• AnchorFree thrives when nations censor sites    5 September 2010, 12:08 am
• Craigslist halts ads for adult services / Accused of promoting crime, online classified site yields to pressure    4 September 2010, 11:21 pm
• State appeals court blocks school drug tests    4 September 2010, 12:07 am

Medical Technology:

• Fuzzy Thinking Could Spot Heart Disease Risk    17 September 2010, 12:28 pm
• Wheelchair Makes the Most of Brain Control    15 September 2010, 2:55 pm
• Perception of emotion is culture-specific    15 September 2010, 2:00 pm
• Implanted Fuel Cell Powered by Rat’s Body Fluids    15 September 2010, 9:51 am
• Children and adults see the world differently, research finds    14 September 2010, 11:00 am
• Pollyanas Are Good Lie Detectors    13 September 2010, 12:32 pm
• Astronauts’ Fingernails Falling Off Due to Glove Design    13 September 2010, 10:27 am
• The Checklist Manifesto    13 September 2010, 7:30 am
• C-section rates higher at for-profit hospitals    12 September 2010, 10:19 am
• Music on prescription could help treat emotional and physical pain    10 September 2010, 2:00 pm
• Brain scans measure kids’ maturity levels    10 September 2010, 12:30 am
• Cockroach Brains May Hold New Antibiotics?    9 September 2010, 2:54 pm
• Lost Fox Subspecies Found via Saliva Analysis    8 September 2010, 6:39 pm
• Visual pattern preference may be indicator of autism in toddlers    7 September 2010, 5:00 am

Miscellany:

• Can Russia Build a Silicon Valley?    17 September 2010, 12:29 pm
• Census: 1 in 7 Americans lives in poverty    16 September 2010, 6:34 pm
• Operation Pastorius: Hitler’s Unfulfilled Dream of a New York in Flames    16 September 2010, 6:16 am
• 11 Hot Skills for 2011    15 September 2010, 2:54 pm
• It Is Bloglines You Mourn For    14 September 2010, 5:00 am
• Vintage Exhibits on Show: Berlin Museum Opens Spectacular Display of Pickled Animals    14 September 2010, 4:02 am
• UC regents may change media coverage policy    10 September 2010, 10:42 am
• Life After the Smoking Ban: Bacteria To Fight Beer Stench at Oktoberfest    10 September 2010, 7:23 am
• Flying Solo: Copilots Could Soon Be Grounded    9 September 2010, 6:26 am
• San Francisco jail installs condom dispensers    8 September 2010, 1:54 pm
• Do We Play Farmville Because We’re Polite?*    8 September 2010, 12:12 pm
• Gamer suspended over name of W.Va. town: Fort Gay    8 September 2010, 7:59 am
• How to Stem a Global Food Crisis? Store More Water    7 September 2010, 11:47 am
• Kinect’s Israeli partner sees remoteless world    6 September 2010, 6:38 am
• U.S. tech firms shop abroad to avoid taxes    6 September 2010, 12:07 am
• Deal to clean up LA-area nuclear accident site    3 September 2010, 5:31 pm
• 65% of adults slept with cell phone on, by bed    3 September 2010, 12:07 am
• Women and Street Harassment    2 September 2010, 12:04 pm

Politics:

• Sarkozy’s Battle: Roma Camps Are The Exception in Germany    17 September 2010, 9:56 am
• The World from Berlin: ‘The Roma Are a European Problem’    17 September 2010, 6:36 am
• ‘All a Misunderstanding’: Germany Denies Plans to Clear Roma Settlements    17 September 2010, 2:24 am
• Paris vs. Brussels: Roma Row Dominates EU Summit    17 September 2010, 1:25 am
• Survey: Public pay high in several Calif. cities    16 September 2010, 5:39 pm
• Driving out the Unwanted: Sarkozy’s War Against the Roma    15 September 2010, 7:19 am
• The World from Berlin: ‘France Has Acted Systematically against an Entire People’    15 September 2010, 6:01 am
• British Philosopher Anthony Grayling: ‘The Chances of Getting the Pope Arrested Are Quite Slim’    15 September 2010, 2:49 am
• ‘Pope Nope’: A Cool Welcome for Benedict in Britain    15 September 2010, 1:48 am
• ‘A Disgrace’: EU Rebukes France Over Roma Expulsions    14 September 2010, 9:07 am
• Did US Soldiers Target Afghan Civilians?: War Crime Allegations Threaten to Harm America’s Image    13 September 2010, 3:46 am
• Romanian Gypsy leader compares Sarkozy to Nazis    8 September 2010, 12:34 pm
• An Unsettled Issue: Israeli Settlement Construction Booms Despite Ban    3 September 2010, 9:20 am

Robotics:

• How Football Playing Robots Have the Future of Artificial Intelligence at Their Feet    14 September 2010, 2:31 am
• Researchers Give Robots the Capability for Deceptive Behavior    10 September 2010, 8:54 am

Security / Privacy:

• Quantum Crypto Products Cracked By Researchers    15 September 2010, 2:56 pm
• Iran tests of anti-censorship software stop    15 September 2010, 12:07 am
• Privacy and Safety Questions Loom Over Federal Program to Track Preschoolers    14 September 2010, 8:52 am
• Proposed Ga. E-Filing Rules Raise Concerns    14 September 2010, 5:06 am
• Quantum Cryptography Breached With Lasers    10 September 2010, 8:56 am
• European Parliament Asks EU ACTA Negotiators to Protect Citizens’ Fundamental Rights    9 September 2010, 8:59 am
• ITU Head: Cyberwar Could Be ‘Worse Than Tsunami’    8 September 2010, 11:16 am
• EFF’s E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy v2    8 September 2010, 10:39 am
• Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool    3 September 2010, 6:44 am
• Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown    2 September 2010, 12:00 pm

Social Networking:

• Be Careful How Your Brand Travels on Social Networks    17 September 2010, 4:19 am
• Facebook inches past Google for Web users’ minutes    10 September 2010, 7:05 am
• LinkedIn IPO hopes face global challenge    6 September 2010, 12:42 am
• Big jump in number of people on Twitter    4 September 2010, 12:07 am

Technology:

• Self-Organizing Traffic Lights    17 September 2010, 12:28 pm
• European Partnership Funds Research Toward Robot Aides for the Elderly    15 September 2010, 2:55 pm
• Tim Berners-Lee Calls for Free Internet Worldwide    15 September 2010, 2:53 pm
• Access to Data of the Past–and the Future    14 September 2010, 2:30 am
• Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate    13 September 2010, 2:00 pm
• Password Reuse    12 September 2010, 9:00 pm
• BYU Research Predicts Path of Lost Hikers    10 September 2010, 8:56 am
• Google makes searching faster    9 September 2010, 12:07 am
• Major networks using Skype in news reports    7 September 2010, 12:07 am

-D