TIME – 50 Best Websites 2009
TIME – 50 Best Websites 2009: “50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.”
Day archives: December 25th, 2009
Side by Side Comparison of House and the Senate Health Care Proposals
New York Times – Comparing the House and the Senate Health Care Proposals: “Senate Democrats said Saturday that they had clinched an agreement on a sweeping legislation to overhaul the nations health care system. The House passed its own version in November. The proposals are broadly similar but differ on some major issues, such as …
Digital Rosetta Stone – memory chip with a 1,000-year expiration date
Forbes: “If people can read this story a millennium from now, they may have Tadahiro Kuroda to thank. Kuroda, an electrical engineering professor at Keio University in Japan, has invented what he calls a “Digital Rosetta Stone,” a wireless memory chip sealed in silicon that he says can store data for 1,000 years. As technology …
Eyeglasses For The Poor
Forbes: Eyeglasses are as old as the Renaissance, but even now we still need trained professionals to fit them. That’s no problem for the Western world, which has around one optometrist for roughly every 10,000 people. But it’s a nightmare for developing countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, there’s only one optometrist for around 1 …
MAPLight.org – Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connections
“MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws.”
Census – The Foreign-Born Labor Force in the United States: 2007
The Foreign-Born Labor Force in the United States: 2007 – “Economic opportunity is a primary attraction for many immigrants to the United States. In 2007, labor force participation among the foreign born was higher than that among natives. Foreign born workers have historically made up a sizeable part of the labor force. Today, there are …
FDIC Institution Directory
“The FDIC Institution Directory (ID) provides the latest comprehensive financial and demographic data for every FDIC-insured institution, including the most recent quarterly financial statements, with performance and condition ratios.” Data Availability: Financial – Current as of 9/30/2009; Demographic – Current as of 12/24/2009
