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Current Social Issues Articles

Information Today January 14, 2016	EBSCO Gives Libraries Incentives to Step Toward Solar EBSCO Information Services created a grant initiative (totaling $150,000) to help libraries adopt solar power.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Sued For Enabling "Explosive Growth Of ISIS" The suit argues that ISIS has used Twitter to attract new recruits and to disseminate propaganda, and that the site has "knowingly or with willful blindness" aided terrorists as a result.
Chemistry World January 11, 2016 Andy Extance	New vinyl catalyst will reduce mercury emissions A gold-based catalyst over 30 years in the making is set to help fight the harm China's polyvinyl chloride plastic industry is causing the country's environment.
Chemistry World January 8, 2016 Derry Jones	Atomic -- the first war of physics and the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939--49 Jim Baggott, aims to describe the competitive actions of several countries in what became a race involving the UK, Canada, the US, Germany, the USSR, (and even Norway up to June 1940).
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	White House Officials To Meet With Tech Execs To Discuss Countering Terrorism Online They will discuss the ongoing concern of how terrorists have become adept at using social media to recruit members and converts online.
Chemistry World January 7, 2016 Philip Robinson	The judgement of Paris Overall, the Paris climate change summit is very good news -- not least for chemistry.
Chemistry World January 6, 2016 Rebecca Trager	US bans microbeads from personal care products The new law, which is aimed at protecting the nation's waterways, will also ban sales of cosmetics containing microbeads beginning July 2018, and over-the-counter drugs containing these plastic particles by July 2019.
Chemistry World January 6, 2016 Heather Powell	Challenging efficiency records of solar hydrogen production Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production is a promising source of sustainable energy but for this to be commercially viable, it needs to be more efficient.
Chemistry World January 4, 2016 Emma Stoye	Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons complete The disposal of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile has been completed, with the destruction of 75 litres cylinders of hydrogen fluoride by the waste disposal firm Veolia in Texas, US.
Fast Company Christina Farr	Thwarted London Terrorist Tweeted About His Plans On Tuesday, Mohammed Rehman and Sana Ahmed Khan were found guilty by the Old Bailey Court, and sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting an attack in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2005 bombings.
Chemistry World December 23, 2015 Richard Massey	Green rocket fuel breaks records Chinese scientists have developed a new family of safer chemical propellants with the shortest ignition times and lowest viscosities of any ionic fluid rocket fuels to date.
Chemistry World December 21, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Nasa show human impact on climate with air pollution maps Following the COP21 climate conference (21 st session of the Conference of Parties) in France, NASA has released a series of global satellite maps showing air pollution trends over the past decade.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	AP Report: U.S. Power Grid Subject To Repeated Foreign Hacks The U.S. power grid is subject to being hacked from abroad, and foreign hackers have gained remote access to American power operations about a dozen times over the last decade.
Chemistry World December 18, 2015 Jamie Durrani	Glycerol-free strategy sweetens biodiesel synthesis Scientists in the US have developed a new method for synthesizing biodiesel that avoids making any unwanted glycerol byproduct.
Fast Company Christina Farr	Five Moments Leading Up To Arrest of Pharma's "Bad Boy" Martin Shkreli has stepped down from his post as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, just one day after federal authorities charged the "bad boy" of biotech with securities fraud.
Information Today December 15, 2015	Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice.
Fast Company Lydia Dishman	How Volkswagen's Company Culture Could Have Led Employees To Cheat In the wake of the news that the German automaker installed software intended to defeat emissions testing, CEO Martin Winterkorn's character and management style were called into question.
Chemistry World December 14, 2015 Emma Stoye	World leaders agree climate deal at COP21 talks Nearly 200 countries have come to an agreement at the UN's COP21 climate conference in Paris, Frances, where world leaders have been discussing how to tackle climate change.
Chemistry World December 14, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Cost of banning BPA in till receipts outweighs benefits, EU agency concludes The social and economic costs of banning bisphenol A in cash register receipts outweigh any long-term benefits.
Chemistry World December 14, 2015 Simon Hadlington	New camera makes methane visible Researchers in Sweden have developed a new camera that can visualize the flow of methane -- a key greenhouse gas -- as it emanates from its source.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors."
Fast Company Steven Melendez	FBI Renews Warnings on Terror and Encryption, With No Clear Solution in Sight FBI Director James Comey reiterated warnings that popular encrypted communication apps are making it difficult for law enforcement officials to monitor suspected criminals and terrorists.
National Defense January 2016 Jon Harper	Fight Over Gitmo Detainees Coming to a Head As President Barack Obama continues to push for the closure of the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before he leaves office, government cost data is stirring discussions about where to house detainees.
National Defense January 2016 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Defense Industry Developing Systems to Defeat Enemy Drones Experts and company executives envision a future where new technology employed by the military or government agencies could spot rogue or hostile drones, identify them and even commandeer or stop them mid-air.
National Defense January 2016 Cassidy et al.	Defense Increases Scrutiny of Supply Chain The Defense Department has offered some clarification on how it plans to deal with suppliers that pose potential security risks.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Marines Prepare to Fight at Sea, on the Ground, From the Air After more than a decade of slogging counterinsurgency warfare, the Marine Corps is preparing for the conflicts of the future.
Chemistry World December 8, 2015 Colacci & Kleinstreuer	Rethinking risk assessment For the purposes of regulation, the onset of adverse effects is key to determining the level of exposure that presents an unreasonable risk for humans and ecosystems.
National Defense January 2016 Stephanie Meloni	Defense Department Assuming Growing Cyber Security Role The Defense Department sees cyber as a domain that spans air, land, sea and space, but it struggles with how to handle it as a war fighting domain to best protect the nation.
Fast Company Sarah Kessler	Facebook, Twitter Would Be Forced To Report Terrorist Activity Under Proposed Bill Efforts in Washington have put a spotlight on the debate around the role of technology companies in aiding law enforcement's investigation of terrorist activity.
Chemistry World December 7, 2015 Andy Extance	Pfizer's response to compound fraud spotlights quality issues After a bogus version of its leukemia drug bosutinib was supplied to researchers, Pfizer scientists have laid out how they check they have produced the right compound.
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