Medical school scientists have played a major role in an international effort that has shown, for the first time, that modern genetic technologies can solve the riddle of how gene variations lead to schizophrenia.
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Schizophrenia linked to chromosome region
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Global warming tactic cools climate but won’t help corals
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Stanford study says mental nudge can make voters flip-flop
1 Jul 2009 | 12:00 amA group of Stanford psychologists say political opinions can sway right or left depending on whether voters are prompted to think about the payoff of their own hard work or their lucky breaks. -
Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes
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Stanford hosts vintage dance weekend
28 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amRichard Powers' Stanford Dance Weekend focuses on the hustle, the West Coast swing, 1970s disco hustle, Bollywood and blues fusion, as well as more traditional vintage dancing.
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Stanford University Press Blog
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What is Cheney Defending?
30 Jun 2009 | 12:47 pmShirley Anne Warshaw was interviewed by the Rorotoko blog about her new book, The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney. "In the past month or so, we have seen former Vice President Cheney aggressively respond to charges by President Obama that the Bush administration exacerbated America’s friends and foes with its policies of torture, prisoner abuse, and inadequate trials." Warshaw argues that this is because the policies of the Bush administration were very much Cheney's policies so it is only fitting that he is defending them. Not only did Cheney have major influence over… -
Assessing the Bomb
24 Jun 2009 | 6:34 amLawrence Wittner has taken his vast knowledge of the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament and put it into a more conscise and updated book. His previous trilogy on the bomb, The Struggle Against the Bomb, is a long and detailed account of the movement to restrict the use of nuclear weapons. His new book, Confronting the Bomb, distills that information into a comprehensive account of the worldwide nuclear disarmament campaign. In a recent post on The Page 99 Test, Wittner applies the “page 99 test” to his new book, describing what the reader will find on page 99 and… -
Palestinian Identity in the Israeli Army: Fighting on the the wrong side?
21 May 2009 | 3:18 pmSurrounded, by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh, takes a close look at the Palestinians who choose to serve in the Israeli army. It takes up the question of why they join and how it reflects the cultural interaction between the Israelis and Arabs in Israel . In the last week, the book was reviewed in both Jordan Times and the Jerusalem Post in Israel. It is a statement of the social and political implications of Arabs in Israel as a whole, even though it focuses on a small percentage of Palestinians who choose to fight for the Israeli army.Surrounded contains over 70 interviews with soldiers and… -
California - A nation-state within a state?
19 May 2009 | 2:03 pmIn a recent broadcast of the radio show Which Way, LA? Stanford University Press authors Jim Flanigan - Smile Southern California, You’re the Center of the Universe - and Abe Lowenthal - Global California, Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge - share their insights on the current and future prospects for California. Can the most prosperous state in the US , the hub of agriculture, industry and innovation be regarded as a nation-state? For Abe Lowenthal the answer is a resounding "Yes." Lowenthal’s ideas focus on the fact that California has all the qualities of an… -
Shanghai's History opens up to the West
15 May 2009 | 12:59 pmMarie-Claire Bergere’s book Shanghai, China’s Gateway to Modernity, is scheduled to be released in December of this year but is already generating discussion in academic circles. In a recent post in The China Beat Jeffrey Wasserstrom commends Bergere on the first English language book of this topic. Shanghai, China's Gateway to Modernity is the fist comprehensive history of Shanghai in any Western language. Bergere’s tale takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened up to the world as a trading hub. She narrates the city’s beginnings as a treaty port in the…
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Clastic Detritus
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Suspending sediment in a fluid
24 Jun 2009 | 7:43 pmBlogging will be even lighter than usual for the next two weeks … I am doing some traveling and going to see some rocks I’ve been wanting to visit for several years. More on that when I return. Before I leave, I’ll leave you with this image of a recent sand storm in Saudi Arabia … which reminded me of something. Sand storm in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, June 2009 (credit: International News Bureau; http://www.intnewsbureau.com/riyad-sand-storm-massive-sandstorm-hits-saudi-arabia/) Experimental turbidity current (click on image to go to Flickr set; see this site for associated… -
Geopuzzle (updated)
22 Jun 2009 | 7:33 amI’ve been so busy lately that I completely forgot to do a bit of research for a reader that e-mailed me a photograph of some interesting (and beautiful) rocks. So, I decided to make it a geopuzzle and let the collective intelligence of the blogosphere discuss, debate, and ultimately solve. photo courtesy of a reader -- click on it for larger version Here is what the reader says about the rock in an e-mail to me: The rock is about 4 feet across and is near the Martial Glacier outside Ushuaia, Argentina. Alright … have at it! UPDATE (6/23/09): This update was posted after the… -
Sea-Floor Sunday #50: Saline density flow channel network
21 Jun 2009 | 1:00 amThis week’s Sea-Floor Sunday is an image from a recent paper from Flood et al. about channel networks on the floor of the Black Sea (you can see the entire paper here). What I find interesting about this system is that it forms from saline density flows that come from the Bosphorus (the strait that separates the Black Sea from the Sea of Marmara and the rest of the Aegean Sea in the Mediterranean region): This channel network accommodates the saline density current formed by the Mediterranean inflow. The density contrast between the density underflow and the ambient water mass is… -
Friday Field Foto #87: Cobble beach on Patagonian lake
19 Jun 2009 | 10:15 amThis week’s Friday Field Foto is from a cobble beach along the shores of Lago Nordenskjold in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia. I was in this area earlier this year to run a field conference and do some field work and spent a few days to do a little hiking in the national park. Lago Nordenskjold cobble beach, Chile (© 2009 clastic detritus) By the way, the beach is at the foot of this: Los Cuernos del Paine, Chile, in the early morning light (© 2009 clastic detritus) Ah hah! That’s where the comparable proportions of light and dark cobbles come from. Happy… -
Friday Field Foto #86: Ocotillo in New Mexico
12 Jun 2009 | 1:00 amIt’s been pretty hectic the last couple weeks, I just haven’t had much time for blogging … this week’s Friday Field Foto barely shows any geology. It’s just a photograph I like. Ocotillo plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico (© 2009 clastic detritus) Happy Friday! Posted in New Mexico, photographs I've taken
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Folding@home
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10 Years
2 Jul 2009 | 8:42 amWhile it's not directly a major milestone for FAH, it's something very relevant for me: July 1 was my 10th year anniversary at Stanford. It's amazing that 10 years has gone by, in some ways quickly and in some ways not. I do recall fondly the "old days" when my lab was just me and a small number of students, although that time was pretty tough in many ways. It's nice to have the key academic life issues past (tenure, etc).But, this is not the relevant 10 year mark for most: FAH's 10 year mark. That too is coming up, on October 1, 2010. -
Two servers down: vspg2 and vspg2v
23 Jun 2009 | 7:01 pmMaintenance is under way on these machines. Looks like a PDU went down during a equipment move today and the redundant power did not kick in right. Hopefully this will be something as simple as powering up the RAID again and restarting the server.It's 7pm pacific time, so the admins are likely not going to get to this until they get back in the morning, but we'll see. We've filled out a ticket and mentioned this is a very high priority item.We are also monitoring the collection servers for these two servers. They appear to be up and running well, so hopefully this will… -
History of Supercomputers
19 Jun 2009 | 4:03 pmHere's an interesting link on the history of supercomputers, with a nice bit about Folding@home: http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3073/I particularly like the old pictures, such as this one! -
How does FAH code development and sysadmin get done?
17 Jun 2009 | 8:41 amOne of the more common question I get asked is how we do our client/server/core programming and backend system administration. Also, others were curious about updates on various core projects. So, I thought it made sense to answer both in one post, since the answers are related. This will be a bit of a long answer to several short questions, but hopefully it will help give some insight into how we do what we do.First, some history. When we started in 2001, I personally wrote most of the code (client, server, scientific code integration, etc), with some help from a summer student (Dr. -
My twitter experiment
16 Jun 2009 | 9:41 amSeveral people haven been pushing me to blog more, but it's hard for me to find the time, especially since I'm often sitting in meetings all day long with various Pande Group members, FAH members, Simbios exec committee, or other University business (eg in my capacity as Chair of Biophysics). In those situations, I don't have my laptop out, but I can often sneak my phone to check email and make brief responses.So, people have suggested that I try Twitter to try to keep the flow of information going to donors. I've set up an account herehttp://twitter.com/vijaypandeThis…
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Stanford MBA Admission Blog
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Alumni Events Around the World
11 Jun 2009 | 1:42 pmThe relationships that you form at the Stanford Graduate School of Business are close and long-lasting--one of the benefits of our small class size. Our active alumni chapters are evidence of this, with events both formal and informal taking place all over the world. On 7 June, GSB alumni and newly admitted students gathered in Mumbai at the Taj Mahal hotel for a discussion with Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. As Deputy Governor, Mohan is in charge of monetary policy, financial markets, and economic research and statistics for India's central bank. Mohan's visit,… -
Los Tigres Del Norte Prowl the GSB
4 Jun 2009 | 10:06 amThe GSB's Global Study Trips offer abundant opportunities for learning well after the trips are over. MBA students return--from locations as diverse as Ghana, Peru, and Scandinavia--with knowledge, stories, and advice that they pass on to the campus community. Recently, students from a spring study trip to Mexico were inspired to bring to Stanford the musical group Los Tigres Del Norte. The group--who regularly packs stadiums in Latin America--shared with the GSB the inspiration behind its Grammy-winning music. Watch the video of Los Tigres' visit. You can also learn more about the GSB's… -
Garth Saloner to be Next Dean of the Graduate School of Business
26 May 2009 | 3:58 pmIt was just announced that our own Garth Saloner will be the ninth dean of the GSB, effective 1 September 2009. Saloner joined the Stanford faculty in 1990 and is a scholar of entrepreneurship and business strategy. He was also instrumental in creating and implementing the new MBA curriculum. >> Learn more about our new dean -
Management Values That Count: Reflections by Dean Robert Joss
26 May 2009 | 11:07 amBob Joss announced that he will retire as dean of the Graduate School of Business at the end of his term, completing a decade of service to Stanford. Recently published in the Financial Times, this essay gives you insight on the experiences that shaped Dean Joss, who in turn helped shape the GSB and the future of management education. >> Read the essay -
Applying for Admission to the Class of 2012
22 May 2009 | 4:38 pmAt the end of every admission cycle, the GSB posts the upcoming year's application and notification deadlines. We typically do this after our Round 3 response deadline. However, because we have moved up the date for applying for Round 1, we decided to post our deadlines now to give you a bit more time to prepare. You can find the deadlines here. In July, we'll be adding more information to our site, including the admission application and instructions, so make sure to check back. Also, as we do every year, we've posted the new short-answer essay questions; the two longer-format essay…
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iinnovate
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Chris Capossela, Senior VP of Microsoft
19 Jun 2009 | 1:40 amMP3 File | Subscribe via iTunes | Add to del.icio.usChris Capossela is the Senior Vice President of the Microsoft Information Worker Product Management Group. Chris is responsible for the worldwide product and business management of the Microsoft Office System of products, which includes desktop applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, server products such as Exchange, and hosted services such as Office Live.Chris has been with Microsoft for over 15 years in various of business positions, including two years as a speech writer for Bill Gates.In this interview, Chris tells us about… -
Max Ventilla and Rob Spiro, Founders of Aardvark
12 May 2009 | 10:45 pmMP3 File | Subscribe via iTunes | Add to del.icio.usMax Ventilla and Rob Spiro are two of four founders of Aardvark, a new social search tool that gets real-time answers from social networks. Max and Rob, along with Nathan Stoll and Damon Horowitz , are carving out the social space with a product that’s a conversation facilitator.In this interview, Max and Rob give an overview of social search, explain their approach in building an innovative product in a burgeoning space, and give insight into Aardvark’s user-centric and research-oriented approach to product and company development. They… -
Alex Wong, Director of Products at 23andMe
19 Mar 2009 | 12:21 amMP3 File | Subscribe via iTunes | Add to del.icio.usAlex Wong is the Director of Products at 23andMe, the popular leader in the personal genome space. As the company’s third employee, he has led product development and design for more than two years, taking the idea of a "personal genome service" from concept to reality.In this interview, Alex explains how 23andMe is making changes in personalized healthcare and genetic research by putting consumers in the driver’s seat and spearheading consumer-driven research. He also explains how the Personal Genome Test, the "spit kit", works, and… -
Paul Edmondson CEO & Ren Chin VP of Marketing of YieldBuild
15 Dec 2008 | 7:09 pmMP3 FileYieldBuild is an online service that maximizes publisher ad revenue through layout, ad network and ad placement optimization. YieldBuild also provides consolidated reporting to help publishers identify, on the basis of statistical data, the best performing ad position layout, color and font style on their webpages.Paul Edmondson, YieldBuild's co-founder and CEO, was part of the executive team at MongoMusic, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2000. He help group management positions at MSN Entertainment over product management, quality management, and operations. Paul graduated from… -
Alyssa Rapp, Founder and CEO of Bottlenotes
15 Jul 2008 | 10:10 pmMP3 File| Subscribe via iTunes | Add to del.icio.us Alyssa Rapp is the Founder and CEO of Bottlenotes, an online wine retail business that helps individuals discover and learn about wine. Alyssa started the company while at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she headed the school's 500-person wine club. In this interview, Alyssa gives key insights on starting and running a hybrid online retail business, talks about her personal and entrepreneurial story for Bottlenotes, and gives leads to the most amazing wine regions in the world. Her goal for Bottlenotes, she says, is to create…
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Grad School Mommy
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MIA
29 Jun 2009 | 9:43 amI feel like I’ve been MIA lately, in that so much is going on in the news and in my life and I haavent been my opiniontes self, at least not in uber-public forums such as this. But things are getting nutty and I feel drawn back in. From Iran to MJ to BET to Honduras to hip-hop to disability and bipolarity to parenting and religion, I’m in all these places trying to make sense of it all. A few thoughts to get me started: BET might just be the worse thing out there for black people today. I’m in favor of renaming it Bamboozled Exploitation Television. Just downright shameful. -
gloom and doom
16 Jun 2009 | 7:08 amSunday night I experienced the worst mental and physical symptoms I have ever felt in my life, and I thought I was going to die. It’s no surprise that I suffer from mental illness, exactly what I’m still not sure. Major Depressive Disorder is the old standby, but I’m starting to think it may be a bit more. But I digress. I was started on a new medication exactly one week ago. I was in such a bad place that I just took it without reading about it, and without throroughly discussing the possible side effects. Boy, I wish I would have. Never, ever, ever take something that… -
critique
21 May 2009 | 9:24 amI don’t know if I can survive in this business. As an update to a previous post, my ASA submission was actually accepted, so I’ll be presenting in a regular session. But while this is good news, the feedback I received has my heart racing and my stomach all upset and I don’t know if I can deal with this for the rest of my career as a sociologist. The first review was not so bad, suggesting that I add something to the paper to further contextualize it. Fine. But the second review, while stating that the paper is well done, boils down to saying that I’m not saying… -
Time to blog
10 May 2009 | 12:42 pmI’ve been thinking a lot about priorities lately, and I’m sure you’ve noticed my lack of posting lately. As I haven’t been writing (or reading in the blogoshere for that matter) I’ve found, much to my surprise, that I really don’t have all this free time left over. Blogging takes time, but I used to think it was time I had. But I was wrong. I really don’t have time to blog, if I also want to do things like eat and sleep, and not multitask while I’m doing them (well of course not while sleeping, blogging actually took sleeping time.) I… -
what about the rest?
27 Apr 2009 | 2:31 pmWhen I think of The Rest, the first thought that comes to mind is “what remains,” “leftover,” as in “…and all the rest.” It was only today, as I talked to my doctor, that I realized the fallacy in my thinking. I was talking about how my energy shifted from last week’s hype-ness to this week’s lethargy. She replied that with all I’d been through lately, she wasn’t surprised that my body needed a lot of rest. Rest for me has always come once everything was done, which meant that I often don’t get a lot of it. But of course…
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Jackson Blog
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Mayo Social Media
2 Jul 2009 | 5:14 pmIf you are interested in how an organization incorporates social networking into its operation, check out an interview that Guy Kawasaki conducted with Lee Aase of the renowned Mayo Clinic. Aase explains the history of the Clinic's use of social media and how effective it has proven. -
Californeconomics
30 Jun 2009 | 5:58 pmCalifornia as the eight-largest economy in the world is a major powerhouse for the U.S. economy as stated by an article put out by the Associated Press. Twenty cents of every revenue dollar California sends to Washington remains there. Most striking is the fact that California is responsible for keeping the retail economy running, more cars are purchased here than in any other state. The question has become will California with its fiscal instability become a major stumbling block to U.S. economic recovery? In the article entitle California Poised to Issue IOUs to Vendors, Local Governments… -
Broadway Bias
29 Jun 2009 | 3:10 pmNew research suggests that woman playwrights may be on the receiving end of sexual discrimination -- from women. Stanford Professor Bob Sutton on his blog describes studies by undergrad Emily Glassberg Sands, mentioned in the New York Times, that purport to turn up bias in unusual places. Other aspects of the research include evidence that works by women on average are 18% more profitable than plays authored by men. -
BW Videos
29 Jun 2009 | 1:20 pmIn my internet travels searching for business research, I came across BusinessWeek's site titled "Video View's". This site features interviews with newsmakers, discussions of current topics such as housing prices, financial crisis or the current state of healthcare costs. -
New Perspectives on Obama
25 Jun 2009 | 3:37 pmTime to report on the latest arrival of NPQ -- New Perspectives Quarterly. The Spring 2009 issue on our current periodical racks is titled 'Obama's Smart Power', and highlights geopolitical challenges to the President's "smart power" strategy. The issue opens with a statement by Mr Obama, followed by interviews and commentary on this and other topics from the usual gang of suspects, i.e. world leaders, including U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph S. Nye Jr, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, author Olivier Roy (Globalized Islam), Afghan President Hamid Karzai, former President Jimmy…
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Folding@home
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10 Years
2 Jul 2009 | 8:42 amWhile it's not directly a major milestone for FAH, it's something very relevant for me: July 1 was my 10th year anniversary at Stanford. It's amazing that 10 years has gone by, in some ways quickly and in some ways not. I do recall fondly the "old days" when my lab was just me and a small number of students, although that time was pretty tough in many ways. It's nice to have the key academic life issues past (tenure, etc).But, this is not the relevant 10 year mark for most: FAH's 10 year mark. That too is coming up, on… -
Two servers down: vspg2 and vspg2v
23 Jun 2009 | 7:01 pmMaintenance is under way on these machines. Looks like a PDU went down during a equipment move today and the redundant power did not kick in right. Hopefully this will be something as simple as powering up the RAID again and restarting the server.It's 7pm pacific time, so the admins are likely not going to get to this until they get back in the morning, but we'll see. We've filled out a ticket and mentioned this is a very high priority item.We are also monitoring the collection servers for these two servers. They appear to be up and running well, so… -
History of Supercomputers
19 Jun 2009 | 4:03 pmHere's an interesting link on the history of supercomputers, with a nice bit about Folding@home: http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3073/I particularly like the old pictures, such as this one! -
How does FAH code development and sysadmin get done?
17 Jun 2009 | 8:41 amOne of the more common question I get asked is how we do our client/server/core programming and backend system administration. Also, others were curious about updates on various core projects. So, I thought it made sense to answer both in one post, since the answers are related. This will be a bit of a long answer to several short questions, but hopefully it will help give some insight into how we do what we do.First, some history. When we started in 2001, I personally wrote most of the code (client, server, scientific code integration, etc), with some help from a… -
My twitter experiment
16 Jun 2009 | 9:41 amSeveral people haven been pushing me to blog more, but it's hard for me to find the time, especially since I'm often sitting in meetings all day long with various Pande Group members, FAH members, Simbios exec committee, or other University business (eg in my capacity as Chair of Biophysics). In those situations, I don't have my laptop out, but I can often sneak my phone to check email and make brief responses.So, people have suggested that I try Twitter to try to keep the flow of information going to donors. I've set up an account…
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metacool
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Leading from behind
2 Jul 2009 | 2:45 pmBusinessWeek just ran a good article about Mozilla's development process for Firefox. As readers of metacool know, I'm a big fan of Mozilla, and look to them as a living example of many of the organizational trends that will become more widespread over the coming years.I particularly like the idea of "leading from behind" mentioned in the article: How Mozilla channels those efforts is a model for a growing number of companies trying to tap into the collective talents of large pools of software developers and other enthusiasts of a product, brand, or idea. -
Once, and the triumph of heuristics
1 Jul 2009 | 11:11 amOn a friend's suggestion, I just watched the DVD of the film Once. I really liked it.It's a musical. A musical! But not in a South Pacific kind of way, with big production values and mountains of dollars behind each scene. Rather, the music is just there, and it is written and performed by the actors. I found the result incredibly moving and poignant, and meaningful in a way that a slick, over-thought production could never be. There's such value to be had in taking talented people and letting them do their thing, and taking what they do… -
More on teams...
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16: Grok the gestalt of teams
29 Jun 2009 | 2:37 pmIf you're going to get innovative stuff done in the world, odds are you're going to do it with other people. If you haven't looked out the window lately, we're living in an ever more connected and interdependent world. If there ever was a time for lone inventors to thrive, this is not it: smart, action-oriented, high-EQ, multidisciplinary, interdependent teams are uniquely positioned to take on the broad, systemic challenges so in need of innovative thinking today. So if you're going to do remarkable stuff, you've got to learn… -
The Twitter thing...
19 Jun 2009 | 10:27 amI've started using Twitter again. I first began using it about two years ago, but did not manage to make a habit of it. But now I'm back on, and I'm really on.I'm hoping that my Twitter stream acts as an extension of what already goes on here when things are running right at the metacool blog. I promise I won't use it to update you on the type of breakfast my dog just ate (I don't have a dog). I guarantee you I will focus on the art and science of bringing cool stuff to life, because at the end of the day all of this material has to come…
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simon jackman's blog
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HR 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act
29 Jun 2009 | 1:29 amJust 8 Republicans voted Aye, and 44 Democrats voted Noe. The mapping onto House members’ ideal points is pretty tight, but not perfect. Check out this graph. -
Farah, MJ
25 Jun 2009 | 5:31 pmI picked a bad day to be here on the West side of LA. Lots of choppers in the air over UCLA right now. Time to get out of Dodge. -
“four-headed penis”
11 Jun 2009 | 8:18 amIt isn’t every day you came across this juxtaposition, let alone in the New York Times The phrase appears in a lovely article on echidnas by Natalie Angier… -
The Chaser isn’t funny
7 Jun 2009 | 1:38 amIt is a rare day that I find myself even partially agreeing with Miranda Devine. But her take on The Chaser’s recent efforts makes a good point. Take the pranks in an American diner and hardware store in last week’s show, or this week’s skit tricking Americans into eating hay. Americans are easy targets, not because they are stupid or gullible, but because they are polite and tolerant of eccentricity. Living in a large melting pot, they are used to encountering people with habits, behaviours and values different from their own, so are more accepting of bizarre antics that… -
the command line (don’t be afraid of…)
5 Jun 2009 | 12:33 amThis screencast costs USD9.00, but promises to be useful (I found it via Gruber’s Daring Fireball). This is the kind of thing that some of our grad students could use. Knowledge of a *nix command line is a real dividing line, imho, since it maps pretty cleanly onto who can code, and who can’t. /Users/jackman[44] find . -name '*.[rR]' -exec grep -l pscl {} \; um, or else…
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LibraryLaw Blog
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Child and Family Safety in the Library - workshop at Santa Barbara Public Library Wed June 24
17 Jun 2009 | 6:00 pmBlack Gold Cooperative Library System is sponsoring a workshop on Child and Family Safety, next Wednesday from 10 to 4 pm at the Santa Barbara Public Library (Faulkner Gallery). FamilySafetyFlyerWe'll be talking about how to handle difficult situations, when to report suspected child abuse, when to call the police and what to say.Instructors: Mary Minow, LibraryLaw.com Ann McCarty, Associate Director North County Rape Crisis & Child Protection Center Deborah Holmes, LCSW, Associate Director, CALM (Child Abuse Listening & Mediation)Officer Scott Klacking, Beat… -
Finding legally safe music and videos for presentations, blogs and podcasts
15 Jun 2009 | 2:28 pmFor California library folks - join us live at the Infopeople webinar WednesdayJun 17, 2009 12pm-1pm PDT Finding (Legally Safe) Music and Videos for Presentations, Blogs and PodcastsAnyone else is welcome to view it later as an archived event.Your library has been creating content for websites and blogs for years, and now it�s moving into adding sounds, songs and video. You know just what type of clip you want, but have an uneasy feeling about its copyright status. Do you have a right to use it? Is there podsafe content you can use? This webinar will help you analyze the legal rights… -
UPDATE: Deaccessioning in New York State
5 Jun 2009 | 7:56 amThe good news: I assume in reaction to the concern expressed by museums, zoos, and libraries, the bill governing deaccessioning from museums was pulled from the Ways and Means committee's calendar on Tuesday. I gather that staff from Assemblyman Brodsky's and Senator Serrano's offices have begun discussions with some concerned community representatives.The bad news: An amended version of the bill is circulating in Albany. This bill makes it crystal-clear that it does not just cover museum deaccessioning, but would cover deaccessioning from "collecting… -
ALERT: Action needed in New York State
31 May 2009 | 5:48 amThere is a proposed new law making its way through the New York State legislature that would regulate how museums deaccession items in their collections. While ostensibly about museums, the law could have a major impact on how libraries function. All libraries and historical societies in NY should write to the legislation's sponsors and ask that passage be delayed until definitions are clarified.The bills are A06959 (introduced by Richard L. Brodsky) and its identical counterpart S04584 (introduced by José M. Serrano). They would govern how museums acquire and… -
Why the Google Books Settlement is better than orphan works legislation
27 May 2009 | 11:41 amThere has been a lot of talk by some of the critics of the Google Books Settlement (GBS) about how it gives Google a monopoly on orphan works. But most of the commentators who have talked about orphan works and the Google settlement are sloppy in their language. In this post, I want to clarify the language and then make a stab at some numbers.There are two sets of books governed by the settlement. First, there are the in-copyright but out of print books whose rights holders sign up with Google. We can call these "active rights holders." Second,…
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Stanford Publishing Courses Blog
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Stolley's Laws
9 Jun 2009 | 4:48 pmPeople founding managing editor Richard Stolley explains the fundamentals of a successful cover, now known in the industry as "Stolley's Laws." Click once to play movie (2:42). Flash version -
Gomez on Books
19 May 2009 | 11:43 amJeff Gomez, chief strategist for Penguin's digital marketing efforts, talks about the future of books online. Click once to play movie (1:16). Flash version -
Ideo Founder Ponders Media as Communications
3 May 2009 | 9:43 pmIDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge demos "Tangible Earth Project" at Stanford's Publishing Course & challenges publishers to think beyond traditional media in strategizing for the future. Click once to play movie (1:16). Flash version -
Baby Center Goes International Online Only
16 Apr 2009 | 10:59 amLinda Murray of Baby Center, a "pure play" Web-only magazine, describes Baby Center's business model and explains why the print magazine was abandoned. Click once to play movie (3:05). Flash version -
Book Publishing for Emerging International Markets
9 Mar 2009 | 4:27 pmJohn Owen, Chairman & Group Publisher of Bonnier Publishing, explains how he mitigates publishing risks, and why he believes emerging markets will play a greater role in his business strategies. Click once to play movie (3:26). Flash version
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SSIR Articles
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Making the B List
23 Jun 2009 | 3:30 amReem Rahim and her brother Ahmed don’t always agree. But the two cofounders of Oakland, Calif.-based Numi Tea were both skeptical when the nonprofit B Lab approached them about certifying their business as a B Corporation. B—“beneficial”—Corporations use “the power of business to solve social and environmental problems,” according to B Lab’s Web site. Yet Numi Tea had already received organic and Fair Trade certifications, so the Rahims did not understand why they also needed to earn their B Corp bona fides. They questioned whether B Corporation certification was just another… -
White House Digs Innovation
21 May 2009 | 7:01 pmWhen first lady Michelle Obama helped turn a patch of the South Lawn into a kitchen garden for the White House, sustainable foodies savored the moment—and the overnight attention it brought to their “eat local” movement. Social innovators, meanwhile, spent early spring waiting for the Klieg lights to turn in their direction. “Any day now” was the rolling estimate of when the new President would formally announce creation of the first-ever White House Office of Social Innovation. (At press time it was learned that the office would be headed by Sonal Shah, who previously worked at the… -
The Profit in Nonprofit
21 May 2009 | 7:01 amIn 2004, Jessica Jackley set out for rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to perform an impact evaluation for the Village Enterprise Fund (VEF), a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit that makes modest grants and loans to small businesses in East Africa. A few months later, her husband, Matt Flannery, then a computer programmer at Alviso, Calif.-based TiVo Inc., came to visit her. As the couple traveled around the country interviewing small-business owners, they talked nonstop about the best ways to help Africa’s struggling entrepreneurs. One year earlier, Jackley had heard Muhammad Yunus, the… -
Research: The Volunteer Boom
21 May 2009 | 7:01 amCommentators such as former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw and Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, contend that Americans who came of age during World War II are the “greatest generation,” shouldering more than their fair share of civic duty and patriotic discipline. Meanwhile, observers criticize the baby boomers—Americans born in the years following WWII—as selfish whiners and disenchanted laggards. But when it comes to volunteering, “this basically isn’t true,” finds DePaul University sociologist Christopher J. Einolf in a recent research article. “Not only are baby… -
Research: The Violent Death of Benevolence
21 May 2009 | 7:01 amPlayers of the video game MadWorld can use their Nintendo Wiis to impale enemies on spikes, gouge out their eyes with street signs, and chop them in half with chain saws. The Mortal Kombat series offers its users similar thrills: ripping foes’ heads from their bodies, tearing their hearts out of their chests, and burning the flesh off their skeletons. Although their producers argue that these games have no ill effects, a new research article shows that violent media blunt people’s altruistic tendencies. In one experiment, for example, participants who played a violent video game took…
