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CIA and DHS want to delete almost all their emails
There are a couple of things that are troubling to me about this report: Agencies were asked to send proposals on management of email and CIA and DHS proposed to just delete them, regardless of their historical importance. The National Archives has already tentatively approved of the proposal The story goes on to note that […]
Yosemite, fire, the legacy of John Muir and other Thanksgiving thoughts
I just ran across this Scientific American‘s Primate Diaries blog post, “Fire Over Ahwahnee: John Muir and the Decline of Yosemite” by Eric Michael Johnson. Anyone who’s read Charles Mann’s 1491 (great read btw!) knows that the indigenous peoples of the Americas from the forests of New England to the Amazon, rather than living in […]
The extraordinary growing impact of the history of science
In a recent paper published on arxiv.org entitled “On the Shoulders of Giants: The Growing Impact of Older Articles”, the authors examined the citation arc over time of older scholarly articles and how that impact has changed over time and with increased digital access. They found that citations to older articles (and therefore their impact) […]
President Obama supports net neutrality. How about a truly public “public utility”?
The news is all over the Internet: President Obama today made a strong statement in support of [[Net neutrality]], urging the FCC to adopt strict rules on net neutrality in order to assure a level Internet playing field and not allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to discriminate Internet traffic (news coverage here and here). Yes, […]
State Legislatures: the frat houses of democracy
While most of us focus of tomorrow’s midterm election and the control of the U.S. Senate, John Oliver is looking at the places where most laws are really made these days. And it’s not in gridlocked Washington — it’s in the state legislatures. I’m really glad Oliver has raised this issue as well as the […]
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