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...These rules, however, were written in an age when print outlets had time to consult their attorneys and deliberate the legal risks, and moral ethics, of publishing controversial stories. Daulerio says a Gawker lawyer did not look at his posts before he published them. In fact, Gawker founder Nick Denton recently sent a memo to his staff imploring them to act less like traditional media. "Let's check to see whether the associated claim is true," Denton wrote. "But we should publish anyway, making clear what we know to be true and what remains up in the air ... There...
...Dubner do tackle one legitimately controversial topic, one that I think could benefit from a somewhat contrarian perspective: geoengineering, or using technology to directly cool the earth to compensate for man-made climate change. The authors visit Nathan Myhrvold, the brilliant former chief technology officer of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, a private think tank. Myhrvold and his staff have the idea to build a giant "garden hose to the sky" that would pump liquefied sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists know that increasing SO2 in the air deflects sunlight, which cools down the earth; when Mount Pinatubo...
...They’re not going to give you any license in Cambridge,” said Frank Curreri, the founder of Entertainment Tours...
TransportAzumah is facing demands from the Cambridge Licensing Commission that the company apply for a jitney license, required for businesses looking to transfer people into and out of the city, according to company founder Joel Azumah. The license could be quite difficult to obtain, he said...
...founder of this project at least, “Literary History” is the original, thought-provoking, and explicable reference work he had hoped to create so many years ago at the project’s conception...