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Transparency: Are the Richest Americans Also the Best Educated? – “We’ve looked at the educational achievement and the median income of the entire nation. Is there any correlation?” by GOOD, Gregory Hubacek [source data derived from American Community Survey]
Via The Atlantic, Goose Strike! Humans and the Sky by Glenn Hurowitz: “This January represents the two year anniversary of the emergence of a deeper existential threat to geese and many other far less numerous birds — one that represents a new and deeply troubling force in man’s relationship to the creatures of the sky. …
Follow up to Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Releases Report on Networking and Information Technology, news [via singularity Hub] that “China revealed that they have developed the worlds fastest supercomputer at their National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin. Known as the Tianhe-1A, the machine is capable of a remarkable 2.5 petaflops. Thats 2.5 …
“Economic freedom advanced this year, regaining much of the momentum lost during the fiscal crisis and global recession. Many governments around the world have rededicated themselves to fiscal soundness, openness and reform, and the majority of countries are once again on a positive path to greater freedom. The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom reports on …
National Survey on Drug Use and Health Report, December 2010: “Recognizing the dangers associated with driving under the influence of drugs, the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy, developed by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, identified the prevention of drugged driving as a national priority. In addition, a major component of the …
NYT: “A sampling of statistics from the newly released Statistical Abstract of the United States.”
DOT Fastlane Blog: “This week, a coalition of bicycling advocates introduced me to a new report showing that in Baltimore, MD, pedestrian and bicycle projects created nearly twice as many jobs per dollar spent than typical road projects. In this case-study, Estimating the Employment Impacts of Pedestrian, Bicycle, and Road Infrastructure, the Political Economy Research …
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets: “The collaboration between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Webs notorious information anarchist, and some of the worlds most respected news organizations began at The Guardian, a nearly 200-year-old British paper. What followed was a clash of civilizationsand ambitionsas Guardian editors and their colleagues at The New York Times and …
JFK Presidential Library and Museum: “The Digital Archives provides access to a growing collection of searchable digitized historical documents, images and materials [See also Advanced Search feature]. Archivists at the JFK Library are working to digitize and make available to the public all of our archival and museum holdings, beginning with the papers of President …
Christopher DeMorro: “The Chinese high-speed rail system is a serious feat of engineering accomplishment. Not only is it the biggest network of high-speed rail tracks, but a recent test run by a commercial train set a new speed record of 302 mph. Yes there are other, faster trains, and this was just a test run …
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 …
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 …
