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Emerging Pathogens Institute: “University of Florida researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records. The scientists analyzed more than 21 million calls to determine how often residents of Zanzibar travel and where they go. A semi-autonomous region composed …
New York Times: “83 children, ages 7, 9 and 11…participated in a study on children and keyword searching. Sponsored by Google and developed by the University of Maryland and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the research was aimed at discerning the differences between how children and adults search and identify the barriers children face when …
News release: “A combination of man-made global warming and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as El Niño, means it is very likely that 2010 will be a warmer year globally than 2009. Recently released figures confirm that 2009 is expected to be the fifth-warmest year in the instrumental record …
News release: “Nearly 60,000 books prized by historians, writers and genealogists, many too old and fragile to be safely handled, have been digitally scanned as part of the first-ever mass book-digitization project [which is called Digitizing American Imprints] of the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC), the worlds largest library. Anyone who wants to learn about …
The Customer Is Always Right – Since founding Amazon in 1994, he has revolutionized retailing. Now he’s out to transform how we read. By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK. “There are two ways that companies can extend what they’re doing. One is they can take an inventory of their skills and competencies, and then they can …
