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“The following op-ed by Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain appeared in the Nov. 30 edition of the Technology Review – The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don’t merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we’re seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on …
EPA WasteWise Program – Food Recovery Challenge – “Why Food Waste Reduction and Recovery?: In 2010, just under 35 million tons of food waste was generated. Of that, almost 34 million tons (97%) was thrown away into landfills or incinerators. When excess food, leftover food, and food scraps are disposed of in a landfill, they …
Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of Parenthood, by Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jeffrey Passel, and Seth Motel, December 1, 2011 “This report focuses on the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates the unauthorized immigrant population using the residual method, a well-developed and widely accepted technique that is …
“The Forbes 400 is the definitive list of wealth in America, profiling and ranking the country’s richest citizens by their estimated net worths.” Also via Forbes, The World’s Most Powerful People and With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again – “Gates currently has two of historys greatest scourges in his sights: malaria, the mosquito-borne …
“Amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate, Bankruptcy, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence took effect December 1, 2011. Congress took no action after the changes were approved by Supreme Court more than seven months earlier. That means new amendments to these rules are now in effect: Appellate Rules 4 and 40 Bankruptcy Rules 2003, 2019, 3001, …
Commodity Price Cycles: The Perils of Mismanaging the Boom, Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa, December 2011 “Commodity-exporting countries have significantly benefited from the commodity price boom of recent years. At the current juncture, however, uncertain global economic prospects have raised questions about their vulnerability to a sharp fall in commodity prices and the policies that …
Microsoft TechNet: “Helping tackle some of the most urgent global challenges is firmly on the agenda for Microsoft Research (MSR) applying our experience, our depth and breadth of expertise, our partnerships and the power of software to tackle these challenges. In the case of searching for a vaccine for HIV, all of this comes …
NetworkWorld: “Engineering professor calls smartphone software ‘appalling invasion of privacy “A controversy over smartphone privacy has reignited this week following a coder’s recent post detailing how a hidden software application on Android-based HTC phones can collect a range of information about the user’s activities. The client program is from a venture-funded company called Carrier IQ …
“The European debt crisis can easily feel like an unwieldy, unmanageable mess of complex jargon and financial terms. Heres Wonkblogs explanation of whats happening across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of eight key graphs…” Related postings on financial system
OECD Green Growth Studies, December 1, 2011 “The OECD Green Growth Strategy aims to provide concrete recommendations and measurement tools, including indicators, to support countries efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy …
News release: “The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing today applauded the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) preliminary determination that dumped and subsidized solar imports from China have harmed the U.S. domestic solar industry. In a unanimous 6-0 vote, the ITC found that Chinese imports are either materially injuring the domestic industry, or threaten the U.S. …
Does the Cold Make You Sick? Busting Common Health Myths, The Daily Muse. Glad to know it is ok to eat after 8pm and that walking every day in the cold weather will not make me sick. Hasn’t stopped me yet!
