Yesterday, I started the day by writing messages in the few seasonal cards I still don’t send electronically (because I don’t have an email address.) I had tried to finish them the night before, but my shoulder wouldn’t allow me to. After a night’s rest, it was a different story, and I quickly got it done. I got them tothe mailbox for today’s pickup – and, somehow, also mahaged to put out trash and recyclables.
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ProPublica – Inside Google’s Quest to Digitize Troops’ Tissue Samples
Quote – Mostly unknown to the public, the trove and the staff who study it have long been regarded in pathology circles as vital national resources: Scientists used a dead soldier’s specimen that was archived here to perform the first genetic sequencing of the 1918 Flu. Google had a confidential plan to turn the collection of slides into an immense archive that — with the help of the company’s burgeoning, and potentially profitable, AI business — could help create tools to aid the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases. And it would seek first, exclusive dibs to do so.
Click through for more information. I can see great benefits from digitizing this data. By a private corporation, however,not so much. And Goolge knows that. Why else avoid publicity?
The Daily Beast – Inside the Jury Room for the Trump Org Criminal Trial
Quote – “I constantly fought my knee-jerk belief that of course anything with the name Trump on it is crooked,” one juror told The Daily Beast this week. “I shocked myself in mid-November when I realized that I wasn’t sure I could find the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation guilty. We talked in the jury room about having to put on blinders and look just at these two companies. One of the guys started calling Trump ‘Joe Smith.’ From there on we referred to ‘Mr. Smith’s company.’” After a six-week trial, it took the jury just two days last week to come back with guilty verdicts on all nine counts issued against a pair of Trump Organization affiliate companies. Jurors were convinced the companies had blatantly committed fraud, but they still felt compelled to carefully consider each criminal charge to be absolutely sure the facts lined up with legal definitions, according to this juror who exclusively spoke to The Daily Beast.
Click through for details. Every trial lawyer in the country – even the world – should read this, and every law professors should make it required reading . The general public, and even lawyers, have some very inaccurate notions about how juries think and decide. In fact, the jury of 12 ordinary people (6 in some civil cases) is probably the most trustworthy piece of every justice system. When jurors go into that room to deliberate, they are as serious as a heart attack, and they work hard to stifle any preconceived notions and to evaluate the evidence, and decide with their heads, not with their emotions.
Food For Thought
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