“Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
–Rumi
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
~Bruce LeeTrump: ‘I am the chosen one’ The Week - Begs the question: chosen for what?
Dodgy Waste Companies /dodgy-waste warned before raids
Pałka, Przemysław, Data Management Law for the 2020s: The Lost Origins and the New Needs (August 10, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435608 orhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3435608
The Media’s Russian Radiation Story Implodes Upon Scrutiny Scott Ritter, The American Conservative
Google, University of Chicago named in suit charging misuse of patient dataHealthCare IT News (suit). From July, still germane.
L’Affaire Joffrey Epstein
NJ senator: Does Epstein’s alleged sex traffic ring prove Teterboro security is too lax? North Jersey Record. The flight logs.Jeffrey Epstein’s Links To Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We ThoughtBuzzfeed. The Rolodex.
How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
JOHN MENADUE. From little things, big things grow, but problems can arise.
In 1984 the number of international students in Australian was minimal and I found Australian University Vice Chancellors very sceptical about encouraging international students to study in Australia .They feared the displacement of Australian students. But in the Department of Trade we pressed on and now there are almost 700 000 international students in Australia. International education is now our third largest export earner, over $30 b per annum and rapidly rising, year on year.But there are problems Continue reading
Instead,
this morning I scribbled some notes about what I really want to say.
And it is not nonpolitical, or inoffensive to all, so I apologize in
advance. I can see Dean Miles shifting nervously in his seat.
This
is what I want to say: the world needs you. It needs great lawyers like
never before. I’m 55 years old. I’ve lived through the Cold War, the
civil rights movement, Watergate, the Bork and Thomas confirmation
hearings, Bush versus Gore, 9/11, the Great Recession. I’ve never felt
as scared as I do now. Maybe it’s an illusion, that the current moment
always seems worse than the past because we know we made it through the
past but we don’t know about the future. But I don’t think that’s it.
Today feels different. I wake up every day a little bit terrified.
Like
no time in my life, the world needs people like you. I’ve never been
more proud to be a law professor than today, because my job is to help
create the young lawyers, you, that our country and the world need.
Why
does the world need you? You’ll have your own list and mine is surely
incomplete. And you’ll likely disagree with some of this.
Chronicle of Higher Education, Grades Can Hinder Learning. What Should Professors Use Instead?:
Grades
are among education’s most recognizable symbols, up there with
chalkboards and graduation gowns. Plenty of instructors use them for
years without ever wondering why.
But let’s take a moment and ask. Why grade? To give students feedback, a professor might say. To measure learning. To motivate.
Here’s
the problem: Decades of research undercuts these assumptions. ...
[S]tudies have found that [grades] reduce students’ interest in what
they’re learning. They make students more risk-averse, less curious, and
more prone to focus on their performance instead of the task at hand.
Grades tempt students to cut corners, including by cheating. They
position students and professors as adversaries. They make it harder for
students to think for themselves. ...
At the heart of our investigations is the hard work of ruthless
local reporters around the world. These reporters, in all corners of the globe,
often face pressure from high profile leaders and organizations, who can be
empowered by draconian press freedom laws. But the ICIJ way, of working
together, can hopefully help some of these journalists.
MUZZLED IN BENIN
Reporter Ignace Sossou from
Benin has been fined and given
a suspended jail sentence after he revealed the offshore
accounts and shell companies of a corporate titan. Sossou, who worked with us
on the West Africa Leaks investigation, was found guilty of publishing “false
news” under the country’s draconian press laws.
"This decision clearly
shows the desire of authorities in Benin to muzzle, or at least intimidate, any
media with a critical voice,” said Amnesty International’s Fidèle Kikan.
WHAT IS MOSSACK FONSECA?
If you’ve been reading our
work since the 2016 Panama Papers investigation, you probably know the answer
to this question. But, if you’re new to the ICIJ family and are wondering what
the fuss is about when it comes to the Panama Papers then this is the story for
you. We’ve answered a bunch of frequently asked
questions ahead of the launch of the latest film based on the
project. Got more questions? Hit reply and send me an email!
BEHIND-THE-SCENES
Remember our latest
investigation, Mauritius Leaks? I thought I’d take this chance – while our team
enjoy a much-earned summer holiday (in most parts of the world!) – to share
this video about the investigation. See how it all
started (a USB stick in the mail) and meet some of the reporters
that worked with us on the investigation.
