Monday, 17 March 2014

140316


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140315 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.ch/2014/03/140315.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Linguistic Phylogenies Support Back-Migration from Beringia to Asia - http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0091722 lovely analysis, not sure about the result

Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her @github Exit - http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-exit/ appalling stuff (v @mmilinkov)

Public apathy over #GCHQ snooping is a recipe for disaster - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/16/apathy-gchq-snooping-internet-surveillance couldn't agree more #surveillance

Will EU Parliament save the open Internet? Crucial vote on Tuesday - http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php/telecoms-package/net-neutrality/959-will-the-eu-parliament-save-the-open-internet-crucial-vote-on-tuesday good analysis (v @raycorrigan)#netneutrality

Alleged victims' fury at failure to ban undercover police seduction tactics - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/16/undercover-police-seduction-failure-to-ban just disgraceful

Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/science/billionaires-with-big-ideas-are-privatizing-american-science.html & that is fraught with danger

Climate change body chief: 'bad guys' won after the 'good guys' lay down - http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/12/climate-change-body-chief-bad-guys-won-when-the-good-guys-lay-down 'cos we play nice, they play dirty

'I tried to save a patch of the Amazon but I'd bought an illegal cocaine plantation'  - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/16/i-tried-to-save-the-amazon-illegal-cocaine-plantation great piece, important point

Facts won’t beat the climate deniers – using their tactics will  - http://theconversation.com/facts-wont-beat-the-climate-deniers-using-their-tactics-will-24074 "We need more opinions" (v  ‏@ATHuttnerKoros)

In historic ruling, Brazilian court bans release of Bayer GM corn - http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15353-in-historic-ruling-brazilian-court-bans-release-of-bayer-gm-corn … looks potentially big.. #br

Scientists' hidden links to the GM food giants - http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15351-scientists-hidden-links-to-the-gm-food-giants I'm sure they declared all this in their independent report, no?

"WePromise.eu has worked out a ten-point-charter of digital civil rights" - https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/9701-vote-for-your-digital-rights

We still have time to kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership! - http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4012 #epetition #TPP


Studio gives Kickstarter Veronica Mars movie backers substandard, #DRM-crippled rewards - http://boingboing.net/2014/03/16/studio-gives-kickstarter-veron.html </facepalm>

#Wyoming rejects science education standards over climate change - http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/wyoming-rejects-science-education-standards-over-climate-change/ because denying it will make it go away...

Metropolitan police strip searched more than 4,500 children in five years - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/16/metropolitan-police-strip-search-children-4500 & I thought they couldn't sink any lower

Sugru, the new wonder material: 'I made a thing like wood, but it bounced' - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/16/sugru-inventor-jane-ni-dhulchaointigh interesting

#ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words Chapter 2 - http://updegrove.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/odf-vs-ooxml-war-of-the-words-chapter-2/ " one of a number of stage-setting chapters to follow" #openstandards

1st blatant attempt to level down EU stds in #TTIP: #pesticides - http://www.ecpa.eu/news-item/regulatory-affairs/03-14-2014/1312/crop-protection-industry-urges-stronger-regulatory-fram replace EU's "hazard-based" with US "risk-based"


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