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David Bloom

Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization | MIT Techno... - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...-vulnerable-to-computerization

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  • David Bloom on 13 Sep 13
     
    Uplifting news...
Ruth Cuadra

Global Insurance Firms offer Resiliency Tools to Climate Risk Cities | Planetizen: The ... - 0 views

www.planetizen.com/66169

CAMLF insurance urban+planning climate planning

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 24 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 24 Nov 13
     
    A report aims to find a common global method for evaluating and addressing climate risk in response to the increasing frequency of catastrophic storms to use by cities in their redevelopment processes.
Ruth Cuadra

By Next Year, Parts of the Internet Could Be Encrypted by Default - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...lan-a-fully-encrypted-internet

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shared by Ruth Cuadra on 24 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 24 Nov 13
     
    Responding to reports of mass surveillance, engineers say they'll make encryption standard in all Web traffic. One wonders why encryption hasn't been the default already.
Ruth Cuadra

Animal DNA and Mars kits: Welcome to the 99¢ store of the future - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

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shared by Ruth Cuadra on 11 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 11 Dec 13
     
    The world according to the Extrapolation Factory, a group of New York designers using a mixture of expert reports and crowd-sourcing to create products anywhere from 10 to 10,000 years in the future.
Ruth Cuadra

Reflection vs. Collection: A New Report Looks at the Effect of Picture-Taking on Rememb... - 0 views

museumminute.wordpress.com/...embering-the-museum-experience

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shared by Ruth Cuadra on 12 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 12 Dec 13
     
    1. Participants were less accurate in recognizing the objects they had photographed compared to those they had only observed 2. Participants weren't able to answer as many questions about the objects' visual details for those objects they had photographed
Megan Conn

High-Speed Rail Researchers Dig Into Fresno's Historical Sites: The California Report |... - 0 views

www.californiareport.org/...b

transportation CAMLF archaeology

shared by Megan Conn on 29 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Megan Conn on 29 Oct 13
     
    Construction begun for high-speed rail.  Archaeology interpretation opportunity?
Megan Conn

California Enters Regional Climate Pact: The California Report | The California Report - 0 views

www.californiareport.org/...a

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shared by Megan Conn on 29 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Megan Conn on 29 Oct 13
     
    CA joins regional climate pact with OR, WA and British Columbia.
Ruth Cuadra

2013 Great Places in America - 0 views

www.planning.org/greatplaces

CAMLF third+place urban+planning

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 15 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 15 Oct 13
     
    great places ("you know them when you see them" as we say in our baseline report) are listed in 3 categories: neighborhoods, streets and public places.
Ruth Cuadra

Hidden costs of sprawl will cripple cities - 0 views

www.thestar.com/...ripple_cities_report_says.html

CAMLF urban+planning

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 31 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 31 Oct 13
     
    "Why don't cities count the long-term costs of suburbia?" asks author of report on sprawl.
Elizabeth Merritt

Harvard says it will issue reparations after report details its ties to slavery : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...ave-trade-reparations-students

harvard slavery reparations

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  • Harvard outlined several next steps it said it would take in an attempt to atone for its involvement in the slave trade, including monetary reparations for Black and Indigenous students who are descendants of enslaved persons in the U.S.
  • The Ivy League school also plans to further partner with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through initiatives, such as appointing visiting HBCU professors to Harvard for one year and subsidizing summer, semester or yearlong studies at Harvard for HBCU students.
Elizabeth Merritt

A Texas superintendent ordered school librarians to remove LGBTQ books. Now the federal... - 1 views

www.nbcnews.com/...-library-books-texas-rcna61087

libraries censorship DEAI training

shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 21 Dec 22 - No Cached
  • The U.S. Education Department’s civil rights enforcement arm has launched an investigation into a North Texas school district whose superintendent was secretly recorded ordering librarians to remove LGBTQ-themed library books.
  • accused the district of violating a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender. The ACLU complaint was based largely on an investigation published in March by NBC News, ProPublica and the Tribune that revealed that Granbury’s superintendent, Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender.
  • An Education Department spokesperson confirmed the investigation and said it was related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex, gender and sexual orientation.
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  • After a volunteer review committee voted to return all but a few of the titles, two disgruntled members of the committee filed a police report in May accusing district employees of providing “pornography” to children, triggering a monthslong criminal investigation by Hood County Constable Chad Jordan, which remained open as of August.
  • The ACLU of Texas made similar legal arguments in another civil rights complaint filed last month against the Keller Independent School District in North Texas in response to a policy banning any books that mention “gender fluidity.” The Education Department has yet to decide whether to open an investigation in Keller,
  • the nonprofit PEN America, which has tracked thousands of school book bans since last year,
  • If the Education Department finds Carroll students’ rights have been violated, experts said, the federal agency could require the district to implement the same types of diversity and inclusion training programs that conservative activists have fought to block in Southlake.
Lisa Eriksen

CHARTS: 5 Takeaways From the Latest Census Data - US News and World Report - 0 views

www.usnews.com/...ys-from-the-latest-census-data

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shared by Lisa Eriksen on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Lisa Eriksen on 13 Jun 13
     
    Interesting summary of US census data.  "A majority of children under 2 are minorities, according to the data, and 49.9 percent of all children under five are minorities." Are museums paying attention?
Ileana Maestas

Vacaville Planning Commission to mull capital improvement projects - The Reporter - 0 views

www.thereporter.com/...ci_23471829

shared by Ileana Maestas on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Ileana Maestas on 16 Jun 13
     
    Planning commissions are a place where museum's need to have a presence. These commissions look at the needs of the communities and plan up to ten years in advance. For museums to stay relevant to its community it needs to be involved in the log term plannin.
Ruth Cuadra

Report describes the future of buildings in 2050 - 0 views

www.futuretimeline.net/...14.htm

CAMLF building architecture responsive+design 2050

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 25 Feb 13
     
    Arup's Foresight + Innovation team, foresees that structures will be fully integrated into the fabric of the city, responsive to changes in the external environment, and designed for continuous adaptability, according to real-time needs and demands of its users.
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