Understanding Growing Inequality, Part 2: How the Rich Got that Way Douglad Lamont
A new galactic superstructure could undo science’s theory of the universe FT. Interestingly, the results come from state schools on the periphery: University of Central Lancashire in the UK, and the University of Louisville, Kentucky. It’s almost as if the Ivies are making people stupider.
The Washington Post – Some are in your neighborhood…”We know this because of eBird, the crowdsourced database of bird observations managed by the Cornell Lab.
eBird is to older bird databases roughly what Wikipedia is to Encyclopaedia Britannica — instead of depending on the observations of a relatively small group of trusted experts, eBird uses the internet to aggregate the observations of the entire birding world…
“When you have people across the world going out and looking for birds and submitting their data online, this is where we really get the power to understand how birds are responding to landscape scale issues like climate change,” Brooke Bateman, the director of climate science at the National Audubon Society, told me…”
Macaulay Library’s Best Bird Photos 2024
The Cornell Lab – All About Birds: “There are more than 50 million photos in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library archive. Here are some of the best from the past year.
From the Winter 2024 issue of Living Bird magazine. If you like this photo essay, you’ll also enjoy last year’s Best of Macaulay essay. For our 2024 photo essay we’re celebrating wonderful photos in five themes:
the high-speed action of Thrill of the Chase, a look at our avian neighbors with Birds in Built Environments, a sampler platter of food types with Feeding Time, spectacular poses in Birds Never Cease to Amaze, and a peek at some of the world’s rarest birds with Rare Glimpses. In the final section, we say thank you to all the photographers who make the Macaulay Library archive such a uniquely rich resource.”
9 strategies for removing negative content from the web
Search Engine Land – “The repercussions of negative, false and defamatory content on the web are profound for businesses and individuals, especially when it ranks highly on Google.
This article explores nine of the most effective and commonly used strategies for removing negative content from the web. The effectiveness of these methods can vary due to changes in laws, search engine policies and your specific situation.”
Shock and Awe: Putin orders hunt for property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union International Affairs
Scathing DOJ Report on Uvalde Texas School Shooting
“The Justice Department announced today the release of a report on its critical incident review of the law enforcement response to the tragic school shooting at Robb Elementary School. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the review shortly after the tragedy on May 24, 2022, in which 19 children and two teachers died at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
The report provides a thorough description of the critical incident review that has taken place over the past 20 months…The team collected and reviewed more than 14,000 pieces of data and documentation, including policies, training logs, body camera and CCTV video footage, audio recordings, photographs, personnel records, manuals and standard operating procedures, interview transcripts, investigative files and data, and other documents.
The team also spent 54 days onsite in Uvalde and conducted over 260 interviews of individuals who either played a role or had important information related to areas of the review. Those interviews included personnel from the law enforcement agencies involved in the response to the mass shooting; other first responders and medical personnel; victims’ family members; victim services providers; communications professionals and public information officers; school personnel; elected and appointed government officials; survivors and other witnesses; and hospital staff.”
Reading the report will disturb you, and reignite the anger we all felt as we learned that the law enforcement responders failed to act for 77 minutes while the shooter destroyed the heartbeat of a community.
The report is delivered via its own websitewithin the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services site. It is in English and Spanish and includes a library of resources that clearly document the standard operating training and procedure in a school shooting situation and the aftermath, and provides operational documentation for law enforcement that was clearly not followed in Uvalde.
