Zeynep Tufekci on why China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.

“It’s not clear why Xi let things spin so far out of control,” writes Tufekci. “It might be that he brushed aside concerns from his aides until it was too late, but a stronger possibility is that he did not know the crucial details.”

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Der Klimawandel beeinflusst die Häufigkeit und Intensität extremer Wetterereignisse wie Dürren oder Starkregen. Neue statistische Methoden sollen dabei helfen, das Risiko solcher Ereignisse besser einschätzen zu können. Auch wenn die Anzahl solcher Ereignisse zunimmt, so sind sie doch weiterhin so selten, dass viele herkömmliche statistische Verfahren nicht greifen beziehungsweise zu unsicher sind.

It’s being called the world’s biggest work-from-home experiment. With concerns growing over the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, schools and businesses around the world are implementing contingency plans that encourage distance learning and work from home.

Desmond Patton discusses the importance of meaningful interaction with the people behind data with the authors of Data Feminism.

“It became really clear to me that we needed to create a new approach to social media data that could really grasp culture, context and nuance. For the primary reason of not misinterpreting what’s being said.” 

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Desmond Patton joined the MIT CMSW podcast to discuss the promise and challenge of eliciting context in social media posts with natural language processing.

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The 2019–2020 academic year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Cyberlaw Clinic, which is based at the Berkman Klein Center. To commemorate the occasion, we spoke with Kendra Albert (Harvard Law J.D. ‘16), clinical instructor in the Cyberlaw Clinic and former student in the Clinic about their takeaways from that experience, their current work, and what they’re the proudest of in their time at the Clinic.

As some countries restrict and replace content, are we headed toward a world of multiple internets? David Weinberger argues that we are already there.

“So on one hand, yes, the dream [of an open internet] is dead. On the other hand, that statement causes us, I think, to overlook the quite often very positive transformation that the internet has brought about: in our sense of what it means to speak in public, what it means to connect in public.”

Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center canvassed technology experts in the summer of 2019 to gain their insights about the potential future effects of people’s use of technology on democracy.

Since the discovery of submarine hydrothermal vents around 40 years ago, these natural chemical reactors have been a focus for evolutionary researchers searching for the origin of life. The vents emit hot water containing minerals, including simple but reactive chemical substances such as hydrogen gas (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Conditions like these could have resulted in the very first biochemical reactions, and thus in the emergence of the first free living cells.

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Tecnologia e Disrupção: Novos Mercados e Novas Carreiras no Direito19h30O Evento: Em virtude da declaração de Pandemia pela Organização Mundial de Saúde, devido ao Coronavirus (Covid-19), a FGV Direito Rio comunica o cancelamento do evento “Tecnologia e Disrupção: Novos Mercados e Novas Carreiras no Direito”.
O Gabinete de Crise da Fundação está atento ao avanço do vírus, assim como aos informes da Organização Mundial de Saúde. Manteremos nossos canais institucionais atualizados e informaremos em caso de uma nova data para a realização do evento.

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We receive updates about the spread of the virus to certain regions via media coverage almost every hour. If you have recently been in such areas and are seriously concerned that you may be one of those affected, it’s recommend, as a precautionary measure to protect your health and to avoid further infections – regardless of whether you are suffering from symptoms of the disease – you should stay at home for the time being, after consulting your direct superior in the faculties, the administration, the library, the computation centre etc. of our university.

Seit 2001 gibt es das Universitätsarchiv, das kleine und große Schätze beherbergt. Zu den ältesten gehört ein handgeflochtener Wäschewagen der Medizinischen Akademie. „Wir haben hier nicht nur Akten, sondern auch historische Talare, viele Studierendenzeitungen, Urkunden und Matrikelbücher“, berichtet Dr. Julius Leonhard. Der Archivar ist erster Ansprechpartner, wenn es um die oben genannte Frage geht.

This blog is the second in a series done by the Frictionless Data Fellows, discussing how they created Frictionless Data Packages with their research data. Learn more about the Fellows Programme here http://fellows.frictionlessdata.io/.
By Ouso Daniel

Entre los siete proyectos que se adjudicaron fondos del "Programa de estímulo para proyectos académicos de estudiantes de postgrado" del Departamento de Postgrado y Postítulo (DPP) de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Académicos, está una iniciativa que busca realizar jornadas de formación a estudiantes de la Facultad de Medicina sobre "Salud y ciencia en época de fake news".

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Brooklyn, New York, February 27, 2020 — Today, The Governance Lab (The GovLab) at New York University Tandon School of Engineering has opened the call for Mexican municipalities to apply to participate in its Multi-City Challenge 2020, a program that aims to solve urban problems by partnering with the people most affected by these problems – city residents.