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GovGab: “Is a colorless, odorless, deadly gas seeping into your home? Unless you test your home for radon, youll never know. Its estimated that one in 15 homes has elevated levels of radon…Radon in your home is a serious matter. Radon is the number one cause of lung cancer among non-smokers, and overall it is …
Tanks in the cloud – Computing services are both bigger and smaller than assumed: “Clouds bear little resemblance to tanks, particularly when the clouds are of the digital kind. But statistical methods used to count tanks in the second world war may help to answer a question that is on the mind of many technology …
News release: “The Census Bureau has released alternative income and poverty estimates covering calendar year 2009, including breakdowns by age, sex and race. These estimates do not revise or replace the official 2009 income and poverty estimates released Sept. 16, 2010. The official estimate of the national poverty rate remains at 14.3 percent. The Census …
The Feed the Future Guide describes the strategic approach and implementation structures of Feed the Future (FTF), the U.S. global hunger and food security initiative: “Today, more than one billion people nearly one-sixth of the world’s population suffer from chronic hunger. This crisis has devastating and far-reaching effects. Each year, more than 3.5 …
Dan Krotz: “A stack of punch cards from a landmark study published in 1966, and the legwork to track down the studys participants years later, has yielded the longest analysis of the effects of lipoproteins on coronary heart disease. John Gofman initiated studies that led to the understanding of the effects of lipoproteins on cardiovascular …
guardian.co.uk: “The abundance of four common species of bumblebees in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census of the insects. Scientists said the alarming decline, which could have devastating implications for the pollination of both wild and farmed plants, was likely to be …
Eawag – Acquatic Research, January 4, 2011: “Examination of deep sea corals reveals that there have been drastic changes to oceanic currents in the western North Atlantic since the 1970s. The influence of the cold water Labrador Current, which is in periodic interchange with the warm Gulf Stream, has been decreasing continually since the 1970s. …
The Looming Cable Monopoly, by Susan P. Crawford, 12/16/2010, vo. 29 Yale Law & Policy Review “On March 9, 2010, the city of Alexandria, Virginia received a letter from Verizon. The letter, signed by Verizons Virginia president, Robert Woltz, said that Verizon would not be installing FiOS services in Alexandria. The mayor of Alexandria, William …
Renewable energy industry shows surprising clout, by Rob Gurwitt – Stateline: “Ohios renewable portfolio standard, which originated in the Republican-led state Senate in 2008, requires that 25 percent of Ohios energy come from renewable sources by 2025, and that half of that renewable portion be created in-state. Its passage along with grants from a …
OIG-11-21 – Management Advisory Report: Recoupment of Improper Disaster Assistance, 1/3/2011 OIG-11-20 – Annual Report to Congress on States’ and Urban Areas’ Management of Homeland Security Grant Programs Fiscal Year 2010 – 1/3/2011 OIG-11-18 – Use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the Transit Security Grant Program, …
Defense Acquisitions: Opportunities Exist to Improve DOD’s Oversight of Power Source Investments, GAO-11-113, December 30, 2010 “DOD lacks comprehensive, departmentwide data for its total investment in the power sources area [in terms of specific technologies, we focused on batteries, fuel cells, and capacitors. This was based on the predominance of batteries among tactically deployed power …
2011 Counterterrorism Calendar – “NCTCs Counterterrorism Calendar provides information on known terrorist groups, individual terrorists, and technical information on topics such as biological and chemical threats.” Includes an interactive map, an interactive timeline, profiles, methods and tactics, and groups.” There is also a PDF version.
