Study: Why Loneliness Is Hazardous to Your Health
Why Loneliness Is Hazardous to Your Health – New research suggests that chronic loneliness can cause changes in the cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems. 14 JANUARY 2011 VOL 331 SCIENCE
Day archives: January 14th, 2011
Agency Conflicts, Prudential Regulation, and Marking to Market
Lu, Tong, Sapra, Haresh and Subramanian, Ajay, Agency Conflicts, Prudential Regulation, and Marking to Market (January 4, 2011). Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 11-05. Available at SSRN “We develop a theory of how agency conflicts between the shareholders and debt holders of a financial institution, accounting measurement rules, and prudential capital regulation interact to affect …
Report – Responsible Transition Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011
Responsible Transition – Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) “The purpose of this report is to identify vital U.S. interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan and to outline how the United States can transition, between July 2011 and 2014, from a large-scale and resource-intensive counterinsurgency campaign to the …
Google: Rebuilding L'Aquila in 3D with Google SketchUp
Official Google Blog: “On April 6, 2009, a powerful earthquake struck lAquila, Italy. Three hundred and eight people died, and most of the buildings in the city center and surrounding areas were damaged or destroyed. About six months ago, we received an email from a British architect named Barnaby Gunning proposing an ambitious project: to …
Wired: Afghanistan's Green Marines Cut Fuel Use by 90 Percent
Spencer Ackerman: “Helmand Province in Afghanistan isnt the most obvious proving ground for a green-energy project. But a Marine company that shipped out to war armed with solar panels says it cut down on its generators fuel consumption by nearly 90 percent. That might just get the rest of the military to note that you …
Freedom in the World 2011: The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy
News release: “Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010, according to Freedom in the World 2011, Freedom Houses annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties around the world. This represents the longest continuous period of decline in the nearly 40-year history of the survey. The year featured drops in the …
