UCLA launches effort to bolster inventions and revenues
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ln-ucla-inventions-20140924-story.html
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Monday, September 15, 2014
The Economist | BuyPartisan: Voting with your wallet
BuyPartisan
An app that brings partisan rage to the grocery store
WASHINGTON, DC
PURITANISM, wrote H.L. Mencken, is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy." Half a century later, the prissiest Americans are haunted by a different fear: that they may buy cheese made by someone whose opinions they do not share. To help people avoid this calamity, a new app called BuyPartisan reveals whether any given product is made by Republicans or Democrats.
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The Economist | Gunshot detectors: Calling the shots
Gunshot detectors
How gunshot-detecting microphones help police curb crime
WASHINGTON, DC
IF A gun fires and nobody reports it, does it make a sound? Some police forces are finding out. On September 3rd the Urban Institute, a think-tank, produced a report based on data from Washington DC's police "ShotSpotter" system, a network of microphones that covers around a quarter of the city. In the 2011-12 school year, the devices detected 336 incidents of gunfire during the school day. Over half the schools in the covered area had at least one gunshot nearby—most of which went unreported.
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The Economist | Foreign funding of NGOs: Uncivil societies
Foreign funding of NGOs
Illiberal governments are blocking activists from receiving foreign cash. Liberal ones should not join in
THE International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International: to most people these and thousands of other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) sound like outfits whose work should be welcomed and encouraged. But that is not how it looks to plenty of governments. In the last few years, around 20 countries have planned or passed laws restricting the freedom of NGOs to raise funds abroad. Some echo the language of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, and now require foreign-funded NGOs to register as "foreign agents"—a phrase that since the cold war has carried the connotation of espionage and treachery.
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The Economist | Advertising and technology: Stalkers, Inc.
Advertising and technology
Surveillance is the advertising industry's new business model. Privacy needs better protections
THE potent combination of three-martini lunches and creative genius in "Mad Men", a television show about 1960s Madison Avenue, is a fair representation of the advertising industry's past. For its future, though, look to a 2002 film, "Minority Report", starring Tom Cruise and set in 2054. Mr Cruise, as usual, spends a lot of time on the run. When he dashes past a digital billboard it takes note of his exertions, remarking, "You could use a Guinness right about now."
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The Economist | Scottish independence: UK RIP?
Scottish independence
Ditching the union would be a mistake for Scotland and a tragedy for the country it leaves behind
SCHOOLCHILDREN once imagined their place in the world, with its complex networks and allegiances, by writing elaborate postal addresses. British youngsters began with their street and town (London or Manchester, Edinburgh or Cardiff), followed by England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland; then came the United Kingdom (and after that Europe, the World, the Universe…). They understood that the UK, and all its collective trials and achievements—the industrial revolution, the Empire, victory over the Nazis, the welfare state—were as much a part of their patrimony as the Scottish Highlands or English cricket. They knew, instinctively, that these concentric rings of identity were complementary, not opposed.
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The Economist | Emerging economies: Hold the catch-up
Emerging economies
Incomes in the developing world are no longer speeding toward those in the rich
THE financial crisis was grim, but the most important global economic development in the early 21st century was a positive one: the dramatic acceleration of growth in the emerging world. Between 2000 and 2009 output per person in poor countries excluding China grew an average of 3.2 percentage points a year faster than rich ones—an unprecedented pace of catch-up. Global poverty rates tumbled. Were that pace of convergence to be sustained, average income in those countries would reach America's in about 44 years.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Twitter for biz
So, You Got Yourself a Twitter Handle. Now What?
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232355
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Entrepreneur
15-Year-Old Entrepreneur Looks to Disrupt Sugary Drinks Market
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232385
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http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232385
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Monday, September 1, 2014
AP Mobile: Sandy-hit towns wrestle with eminent-domain choice
A story from AP Mobile:
Sandy-hit towns wrestle with eminent-domain choice
ASHAROKEN, N.Y. (AP) - On a tiny spit of land off Long Island, the wealthy village of Asharoken faces a dilemma borne of Superstorm Sandy.
Either it accepts millions of dollars in federal aid to build a protective sand dune and for the first time in its nearly 90-year existence allows the public to use its beach or it rejects the aid and retains its privacy, potentially worsening an erosi...
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