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Visible, Legible, Navigable: Graphic Design Meets Disaster Relief
Mediated by a coalition of designated partners (including the Red Hook Initiative, whose WiFi mesh network was an inspiration for this work), the H...
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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #46: An Interview with Shane Harris
But Harris is first and foremost a storyteller, and his zeal for the story is far more important to him than ideology. When he tells the story of t...
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Stop the brass bureaucracy
Tom Ricks’ 2012 book, “The Generals” may be the first book ever written where the most explosive parts come in the acknowledgements, jotted after t...
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Inside the Banker's Brain
Mental Models in the Financial Services Industry and Implications for Consumers, Practitioners and Regulators
In a revealing look at mindsets in the financial industry, “Inside the Banker’s Brain: Mental Models in the Financial Services Industry and Implica...
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Open Technology Institute, Civil Rights, Research Leaders Launch DataCivilRights.org
WASHINGTON, DC – New America’s Open Technology Institute, in collaboration with The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Data & ...
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ARABIC: The Modern State and Islam: The Impossibility of Crossing
*يُجادل وائل حلاق، أستاذ الفكر الإسلامي في جامعة كولومبيا، في هذا الكتاب المفاجىء أن تعبير "دولة إسلامية" ينطوي على تناقض جوهري، يعكس تناقض فكرة ال...
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Garfield High Teacher: Standardized Tests 'Disproportionately Impact Students Of Color'
"The first African-American president of the United States is not likely to... weaken the federal government’s ability to force states to take educ...
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Why hostage rescues fail
Some of the successful recent hostage rescues such as the operations that freed Buchanan and Thisted, Phillips, and Hallums were operations to free...
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Issa and Cummings praise each other: Return of comity or moment of calm?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/1209/Issa-and-Cummings-praise-each-other-Return-of-comity-or-moment-of-calm
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Nuclear Negotiations, Scientific Literacy, and U.S.-India Relations
The role of scientific literacy in the nuclear negotiations with India manifested itself in three distinct manners: the science that directly infor...
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Offset this! China's hypersonic glider flies for the third time this year.
It's been a fast year for Chinese hypersonic technology. The WU-14 hypersonic glider vehicle (HGV) flew for a third time on December 2, 2014. The t...
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A privacy policy for cars: What automakers know about you (and what they’re doing with it)
Manufacturers that commit to the voluntary agreement vow to use customer information for "legitimate business practices" only, but that's a phrase ...
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War of the Words
If the government wants to protect infrastructure from cyberthreats, it needs to figure out what’s “super critical” and what’s just “critical.”
But the problem with these attempts to prioritize critical infrastructure sectors is that these terms are applied inconsistently, and there seems t...
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Video: The Responsive City: In collaboration with the Program on Profits and Purpose at New America
“In God we trust,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to say, “everyone else bring data.” How can emerging technologies and data analytics improve life i...
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Chattanooga Focused on Offline Community Organizing Around Its Gigabit Network
Reflections on a visit to the “gig city”
Chattanooga, TN, is home to a world-class fiber-to-the-home broadband network. Owned and operated by the local electrical utility, EPB, the network...