Yet another batch of links. Hope you enjoy them!
Education:
- Community college dropout rate alarms researchers 21 October 2010, 7:45 am
- White House Unveils STEM Campaign 22 October 2010, 8:44 am
- Culturally Inspired Mobile Phone Games Help Chinese Children Learn Language Characters, Carnegie Mellon Research Shows 22 October 2010, 8:45 am
Environment:
- Copenhagen Repeat?: Failure Looms for Global Biodiversity Conference 18 October 2010, 3:48 am
Law:
- The lawsuit that could end anonymous cyberbullying 18 October 2010, 8:10 am
- Politicians’ Domain Names Prey to Cybersquatters 20 October 2010, 3:29 am
- Federal E-Discovery Rules: a Work in Progress 21 October 2010, 5:22 am
- Mom Asks Court to Declare Universal Violated Law in “Dancing Baby” Case 21 October 2010, 2:27 pm
- Chevron allowed to question lawyer in Ecuador case 21 October 2010, 10:05 pm
Library / Museum / Archive:
- A Safe for Client Files: ioSafe SoloPRO 20 October 2010, 3:43 am
- Dead Sea Scrolls to Be Digitized and Put Online 20 October 2010, 11:01 am
- Pictures: Dead Sea Scrolls Being Digitized for Web 20 October 2010, 3:02 pm
- Not-So-Steeped in History: US Tea Party Should Keep Its Hands Off Hitler 21 October 2010, 6:07 am
Medical Technology:
- Mice that ‘smell’ light could help scientist better understand olfaction 18 October 2010, 8:00 am
- Tibion gives stroke patients a ‘bionic’ leg up 19 October 2010, 9:45 pm
- See no shape, touch no shape, hear a shape? New way of ‘seeing’ the world 20 October 2010, 5:00 am
- The Persuasive Power of Swearing 20 October 2010, 7:49 am
- McSleepy meets DaVinci: Doctors conduct first-ever all-robotic surgery and anesthesia 20 October 2010, 8:00 am
- Cellphones Reveal Emerging Disease Outbreaks 20 October 2010, 11:08 am
- I Win, You Lose: Brain imaging reveals how we learn from our competitors 20 October 2010, 11:10 am
- Partners who had powerful faces in college lead profitable law firms, study finds 20 October 2010, 9:00 pm
- Use Less Water or This Fish Dies 21 October 2010, 5:38 am
Miscellany:
- Sales tax slashed in Romania by mistake 21 October 2010, 7:45 am
Politics:
- Bank of America plans to resume foreclosures 19 October 2010, 9:53 am
- Foreclosure scandal grabs national attention 19 October 2010, 9:53 am
- BREAKING: Pentagon instructing recruiters to accept openly gay applicants 19 October 2010, 1:48 pm
- Beyond the Church’s Reach: Fleeing West from Poland’s Restrictive Abortion Laws 20 October 2010, 2:25 am
- When Banks Are the Robbers 20 October 2010, 7:22 am
- TARP bailout has earned U.S. $25 billion 20 October 2010, 7:25 pm
- Google gives U.S. tax man the ol’ ‘Double Irish’ 21 October 2010, 10:05 pm
- WikiLeaks near release of secret US war documents 22 October 2010, 10:44 am
Politics – Germany:
- The World from Berlin: Merkel’s Rhetoric in Integration Debate is ‘Inexcusable’ 18 October 2010, 5:59 am
- Germany’s Merkel: Multicultural society a failure 19 October 2010, 6:47 am
- The World from Berlin: ‘German President’s Criticism of Turkey Was Also Aimed at Germans’ 20 October 2010, 5:56 am
- Germany’s Integration Blinkers: What’s So Bad About Parallel Societies? 20 October 2010, 6:46 am
- Enough!: Germany’s Integration Debate Is Making Us Dumber 21 October 2010, 7:33 am
Privacy:
- In Jewel v. NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Appeal, Government Still Singing Same Old State Secrecy Tune 18 October 2010, 3:46 pm
- Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping 20 October 2010, 11:01 am
- Eight Epic Failures of Regulating Cryptography 20 October 2010, 8:34 pm
- Low Number of Objections: Germans Unfazed by Google Street View 21 October 2010, 3:23 am
Robotics:
- Robot Arm Punches Human to Obey Asimov’s Rules 19 October 2010, 10:41 am
- Computer Modeling of Swimming Fish Could Lead to New Robots and Prosthetics 20 October 2010, 11:05 am
- I Want to See What You See: Babies Treat “Social Robots” as Sentient Beings 20 October 2010, 11:05 am
Security:
- Hackers worm their way into factories, power plants 17 October 2010, 9:48 pm
- Smart phone apps go (truly) viral 17 October 2010, 9:48 pm
- Internet Security Plan Under Review Would Alert Users to Hacker Takeover 18 October 2010, 9:39 am
- Facebook’s Broken Promises: Facebook Apps Leaking Private Data to Advertisers and Trackers 18 October 2010, 3:51 pm
- Facebook says apps transmitted user information 19 October 2010, 6:47 am
- SpamBot Wants to Be Your Friend 20 October 2010, 11:04 am
Social Media:
- Awaiting a Verdict on Tweeting From the Courtroom 19 October 2010, 10:31 am
- Analyzing Almost 10 Million Tweets, Research Finds Public Mood Can Predict Dow Days in Advance 20 October 2010, 11:04 am
- Drivel on Facebook More Valuable Than We Think 20 October 2010, 11:07 am
- Venture fund to help social-networking startups 21 October 2010, 10:05 pm
- Twitter mood data predicts Dow with 87% accuracy 21 October 2010, 10:05 pm
Technology:
- Reading Electronically: A Review 14 October 2010, 8:29 am
- Will books be phasing out in 5 years…after 4000 years of use? 17 October 2010, 4:21 pm
- Search engines learning to anticipate user’s needs 17 October 2010, 11:52 pm
- How Google understands language like a 10-year-old 17 October 2010, 11:52 pm
- Shogi Computer Beats Female Champ Shimizu 19 October 2010, 10:42 am
- Ability to ‘see’ advances artificial intelligence 20 October 2010, 3:39 pm
- N.Y. agencies to share Microsoft cloud technology 20 October 2010, 6:52 pm
- New Search Method Tracks Down Influential Ideas 22 October 2010, 8:45 am
- Biology Rides to Computers’ Aid 22 October 2010, 8:46 am
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