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Terry Elliott

Clean Air Act and Dirty Coal at the Supreme Court - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • not the Coal Industry Protection Act
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      Terry Elliott on 26 Mar 15
       
      I like that we know right away where the editorialist stands.  I think that I stand with her.
  • industry’s advocates
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Mar 15
       
      Interesting choice of words here.
  • at issue before the Supreme Court
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Mar 15
       
      There is a lot to be gathered by the links especially this synopsis of the history of the case in SCOTUS blog
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  • passed the legislation in 1970
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      Terry Elliott on 26 Mar 15
       
      History of the Clean Air Act.  Again, the expansion of the article through hyperlinks is judicious and solves one of the bog criticisms of these types of editorials--long on opinion and short on nuance and support.
  • other sources
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      Nice, seamless transition.
  • safeguard human health from air pollution
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      Terry Elliott on 26 Mar 15
       
      The idea of pollution created by the generation of coalpower plants is pre-figured here. And in 1990.
  • mercury, a heavy metal
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      Terry Elliott on 26 Mar 15
       
      I feel the same way about mercury that I do about lead.  
  • accumulates
  • dangerous to the vulnerable, developing brains and nervous systems of young children and fetuses
  • as many as 11,000 Americans
  • and other toxic air pollutants
  • In 2012,
  • agency issued a rule ordering coal-fired power plants, which are far and away the single biggest source of these emissions, to adopt technology to reduce them
  • Cleaning up pollution costs money. Business owners and other industry backers argue that the law requires the E.P.A. to weigh those costs against any potential health benefits of a regulation.
  • a single phrase in the law
  • when it is deciding whether a substance like mercury endangers human health and thus must be regulated — which the law requires it to do — cost is not a factor.
  • Plenty of evidence suggests t
  • courts as a rule defer to reasonable agency interpretations of statutory language.
  • The coal industry, however, argues
  • That is an absurdly low range based on a single statistic: the estimated increase in lifetime earnings for people whose I.Q.s will presumably be higher if their prenatal mercury exposure is lower.
  • $37 billion and $90 billion.
  • The vast discrepancies in these various estimates
  • standard cost-benefit analyses
  • view every regulation,
  • as nothing more than a “war on coal.”
  • not mutually exclusive.
  • Burning coal is a dirty business, but it can be made cleaner. The federal law balances the need for affordable electricity with reduction of significant threats to human health. The Supreme Court has upheld the E.P.A.’s authority to carry out that law’s purpose with broad discretion. There is no reason to upset that deliberate balance, or unreasonably limit the agency’s authority, now.
Terry Elliott

Stopping Online Harassment Before It Starts - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Yik Yak
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      YikYak is trying corrective measures including monitoring for hate speech and blocking access in a few schools
  • But clearly they haven’t solved the problem.
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      Terry Elliott on 15 Mar 15
       
      Problem not solved.
  • Whether it can be solved entirely is an open question.
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  • online abuse often reflects larger problems, like racism and sexism, that need to be fought on a social level as well as a technological level.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Mar 15
       
      Author argues that this is an age old problem that needs fighting on more than the tech level.
  • technological to be done.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Mar 15
       
      Some tech can be done: --make users put up photos --develop reputation systems --remove anonymity
  • part of the development process
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      Terry Elliott on 15 Mar 15
       
      Abuse needs to be addressed in the alpha stages of an online social network just like in a f2f community.
  • Yik Yak is
Terry Elliott

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific ... - 0 views

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  • In the U.S., e-books
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  • Even so
  • "There is physicality in reading,"
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  • Navigating textual landscapes
  • Understanding how reading on paper
  • Some of these repurposed brain regions are specialized for object recognition
  • Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety
  • we construct a mental representation of the text
  • Both anecdotally and in published studies,
  • In most cases, paper books
  • In contrast, most screens, e-readers, smartphones and tablets
  • analogy
  • Instead of hiking the trail yourself, the trees, rocks and moss move past you in flashes with no trace of what came before and no way to see what lies ahead.
  • The implicit feel of where you are
  • At least a few studies suggest
  • Based on observations during the study,
  • Mangen says.
  • Supporting this research
  • Because of these preferences
  • Surveys and consumer reports also suggest
  • An e-reader always weighs the same, regardless of whether you are reading Proust's magnum opus or one of Hemingway's short stories.
  • Paper books
  • Exhaustive reading
  • Although many old
  • tudents scored equally well regardless of the medium, but differed in how they remembered the information.
  • Psychologists distinguish between
  • Other researchers
  • But why, one could ask, are we working so hard to make reading with new technologies like tablets and e-readers so similar to the experience of reading on the very ancient technology that is paper? Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
Terry Elliott

The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens - Scientific ... - 0 views

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  • iPad's touchscreen
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  • iPad's touchscreen,
  • October 2011
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Terry Elliott

Ask a question | The Research Whisperer - 0 views

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  • As in so many areas of intellectual and professional endeavour, lots of people have gone there before you, and they’ve been doing it for longer than you.
  • These are the topics that they said they’d like to see (and would make time to attend): A “Stats 101″ session for qualitative and/or humanities researchers, and how to be savvy in mobilising stats data. This idea of generating insight and understanding for those from one area (e.g. critical, qualitative, or quantitative methods) about another featured a few times. Writing for publication. I’ve seen these become especially useful when paired with sessions with journal editors, who are usually more than happy to pass on the common mistakes that will get your paper desk-rejected! Initiating collaborations / Networking. This can be a tricky kind of session to put on because so much about how a person approaches the process is informed by personality (e.g. those who hate conference dinners and will never attend them if they can possibly avoid them…ahem). Still, pushing out of comfort zones can be an extremely good thing at times. Grant application development strategies. This is very much my ‘home-ground’ topic at the moment, and I aim to build on my personal experiences of the grant roundabout in the near future. Other researchers’ stories. These are invaluable in providing reality checks about the research process, as well as inspiration about what’s possible for a really happening research area. New ways to assemble and disseminate research. This is another favourite area for me, particularly on the topic of building a digital profile (and particular efficiency flows, such as enmeshing blogging as part of research reflection/feedback and practice).
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