Day archives: November 29th, 2009

World's Oldest Scientific Academy Launches Interactive Timeline Covering 300 Years of Articles

Guardian UK – From young Mozart to black holes, 350 years of the Royal Society go online: “Britain’s academy of the sciences marks anniversary with online archive including letters from Newton and Captain Cook.” “Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Senate Foreign Relations Cmte Report – Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today

Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today, November 30, 2009: “This report by the Committee majority staff is part of our continuing examination of the conflict in Afghanistan. When we went to war less than a month after the attacks of September 11, the objective was to …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

CBO: An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, November 30, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable Evan Bayh “There is great interest in how proposals being considered by the Congress to change the health care and health insurance systems would affect premiums paid for health insurance in various markets. …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

24th Trouble in Toyland Report

The 24th Annual Survey of Toy Safety, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, November 2009: “Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury, serious harm, or even death. This holiday season, as we have for the past 23 years, U.S. PIRG is working to reduce the number of injuries and tragedies caused by dangerous toys. …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

OECD Economic Outlook November 2009

OECD Economic Outlook No. 86, November 2009: “The economic recovery now spreading across OECD countries is still too timid to halt the continuing rise in unemployment. The jobless rate is expected to peak in the first half of 2010 in the US, but it may not be until 2011 that unemployment begins to fall in …

Subjects: Government Documents

Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector

World Bank news release: “According to the new report – Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector – school feeding programs in poor countries boost school attendance, help children to learn more effectively, and spur better performance in class, especially when these programs are twinned with other measures such as …

Subjects: Government Documents