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16 Dec 2021, 4:33 pm
In a rare bipartisan compromise, the Senate unanimously passed a bill punishing the Chinese government for its genocide of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities — and agreed to hold a vote later on Thursday to confirm Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China.Driving the news: The Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act, which passed the House on Tuesday, would ban all imports from the Chinese region of Xinjiang unless the U.S. government determines with "clear and convincing evidence"… [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 3:53 pm
Although noting that the sequencing of human DNA has produced little of medical value, NICHOLAS WADE of the NYT states in A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures :But while 10 years of the genome may have produced little for medicine, the story for basic science has been quite different. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 7:20 am
I just thought I should do a quick post linking to the speech Changing the culture, given by Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division, to the Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council last night. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 7:00 am
Nassim Nicholas Taleb penned an opinion piece in the Financial Times: Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world . [read post]
20 May 2012, 2:00 pm
An old one-room schoolhouse in Sussex County, New Jersey Nicholas At the dawn of the Internet era, Congress set out to avert a digital divide between rich and poor students. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 12:37 am
Forrester Research Principal E-Discovery Analyst Barry Murphy and Inference Data President Nicholas Croce discuss e-discovery best practices and the latest technologies for streamlining analysis and review NEW YORK, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- In a live webinar broadcast last week, Forrester Research Principal Analyst Barry Murphy and Inference Data President Nick Croce presented a roadmap for managing growing amounts of data, meeting federal e-discovery mandates, and using new technology to… [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 4:48 pm
Douglas Belkin and Alejandro Lazo report for the WSJ:Officials at the University of California, Berkeley reversed course Thursday and announced they will allow conservative commentator Ann Coulter to speak at the school next month.Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said the April 27 event was canceled because the school had received "very specific intelligence regarding threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker, attendees and those who may wish to lawfully protest the event. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 8:21 am
Congratulations are in order for New Jersey Super Lawyers & Rising Stars writer Nicholas DiUlio, who placed in the 2012 New Jersey Society for Professional Journalists competition in the category of magazine feature and profile writing. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 1:29 pm
In an article forthcoming in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Lay Judgments of Judicial Decisionmaking), Dan Simon and Nicholas Scurich asked study participants to evaluate the “acceptability,” or legitimacy, of various judicial decisions. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 11:08 am
BBC News has a piece, Factfile: XO laptop, on the current form of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) machine being developed by Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab. [read post]
16 May 2017, 1:47 pm
Mark Squillace, Eric Biber, Nicholas S. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 10:54 pm
This month's New York False Claims Act amendment has received attention from the New York Times blogger Nicholas Confessore, who notes that that the new law could “sharply expand investigations of wealthy tax cheats by empowering whistle-blowers to file law suits against them. [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 3:18 pm
Los Angeles Review of Books – Nicholas Carr’s review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power By Shoshana Zuboff To the Googles and Facebooks of the world, we are neither the customer nor the product. [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 6:05 pm
Fast forward to 2001, when two Australian scientists, David Priddel and Nicholas Carlile, with two assistants, decided to take a closer look. [read post]
29 Jan 2008, 11:07 pm
In "Two Years of Patent Office Opinions," Nicholas Braddon, in IP Law and Strategies on January 24, 2008 takes a brief look at the basics of the UK Patent Office launched its Opinions service before analysing certain aspects of its performance to-date and some of the opportunities that it may provide.Thanks to Hal Wegner for also pointing out that in in Glaxo Group Ltd v Genentech Inc, [2008] EWCA Civ 23 (Ct. of Appeal 2008)(Ward, Mummery, Jacob, JJ.), the Court of Appeal… [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 9:57 am
Nicholas Stern, a former British Treasury economist, notes that "inaction on emissions blamed for global warming could cause economic pain equal to the Great Depression. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 1:20 pm
A recent Guardian.com article quoted Sir Nicholas Wall, president of the high court's family division, stating that the time had come to move to "no fault divorces" in England and Wales. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 12:12 pm
In August, Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro claimed he was the target of a drone-borne explosive assassination attempt. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 2:15 pm
The entire U.S. intelligence community—17 agencies in all—has been penetrated by Chinese spies, says Nicholas Eftimiades, who recently retired as one of the U.S. government’s top experts on Chinese espionage.Eftimiades, a former DIA senior intelligence officer and expert on Chinese espionage at the CIA and State Department for over three decades, paints a dire portrait of Beijing’s espionage onslaught—and other top experts told SpyTalk they generally agree. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 7:51 pm
(Kenneth Anderson) The US military has appointed its first drone test pilot, Captain Nicholas Helms, at the prestigious USAF test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in California. [read post]
