Der Deutsche Bibliotheksverband e.V. (dbv) veranstaltet am 1. und 2. März 2018 den 1. Bibliothekspolitischen Bundeskongress in Berlin. Verbandsmitglieder und Vertreter aus Politik, Bildung und Kultur sind dazu eingeladen, an Vorträgen und Diskussionsrunden zum Thema „Zugang und Teilhabe im digitalen Wandel“ teilzunehmen und miteinander über bibliothekspolitische Fragen ins Gespräch zu kommen. Der Bundeskongress wird in Kooperation mit und in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin stattfinden.
That time he conceded his oft-repeated line about having the "biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan" is a lie
NBC reporter Peter Alexander: "You said today that you had the biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan – 304, 306 electoral votes. In fact, President Obama got 365 in 2008."
Trump: "Well, I'm talking about Republicans."
Alexander: "President Obama 333, George H.W. Bush 426 when he won. So why should Americans trust..."
Trump: "I was given that information, I was just given it. We had a very big margin."
Alexander: "I guess the question is: Why should Americans trust you when you accuse the information they receive as being fake, when you're providing information that is not accurate?"
Trump: "Well, I was given that information. I was, actually, I've seen that information around. But it was a very substantial victory. Do you agree with that?"
Alexander: "You're the president."
I wasn’t going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror – not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
THE best news to come out of the Philippines in 2012—perhaps even better than the economic headlines—was probably the “framework agreement” between the...
Can we feed ten billion people? Posed this way, the question presupposes that industrialized society keeps on as it does now. It keeps us searching for technological fixes to a problem caused by technology. For 150 years people have made farms more and more factory-like: improving machinery, developing high-yield hybrids, and finally GMOs. We have long assumed that by industrializing the production and processing of food we had found the secret to progress. This book examines the history of industrialized farming and fishing to raise broader questions about industrial society:
What are the costs to the environment and human health of genetic engineering?
Why are economists trapped in prescribing endless growth as a social goal?
Can democratic politics break out of the quest for jobs and prosperity?