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Trends in News Consumption: 1991-2012, September 27, 2012 “The transformation of the nations news landscape has already taken a heavy toll on print news sources, particularly print newspapers. But there are now signs that television news which so far has held onto its audience through the rise of the internet also is increasingly …
“What is big data? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase …
How people get local news and information in different communities, September 26, 2012 “The percentage of Americans who indicate they enjoy keeping up with the news ‘a lot’ ranges from 53% to 60% across the four community types, and similar percentages follow international news closely regardless of what is happening (ranging from 54% to 58%). …
2012 Guide to Healthy Cleaning – Search more than 2,000 products. “Environmental Working Groups mission is to use the power of information to protect human health and the environment. EWGs Guide to Healthy Cleaning gives you practical solutions to protect yourself and your family from everyday exposures to potentially harmful chemicals. U.S. law allows manufacturers …
News release: “The SAT Report on College & Career Readiness released today revealed that only 43 percent of SAT® takers in the class of 2012 graduated from high school with the level of academic preparedness associated with a high likelihood of college success. These findings are based on the percentage of students in the class …
“The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation, is now freely available to download. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths. The Debunking Handbook boils the research down into a …
Eliza Griswold is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship: “On June 4, 1963, less than a year after the controversial environmental classic Silent Spring was published, its author, Rachel Carson, testified before a Senate subcommittee on pesticides. She was 56 and dying of breast cancer. She …
Technology Review: “Almost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disappeared, according to a new study of the Egyptian uprising and other significant events.” Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1209.3026: How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?
Chris Anderson: “The BotCave is home to MakerBot, a company that for nearly four years has been bringing affordable 3-D printers to the masses. But nothing MakerBot has ever built looks like the new printer these workers are currently constructing. The Replicator 2 isnt a kit; it doesnt require a weekend of wrestling with software …
“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to share a new literature review by the Youth and Media team, contributing to The Kinder & Braver World Project led by danah boyd and John Palfrey – Bullying in a Networked Era: A Literature Review, by Nathaniel Levy, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, …
News release: “In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new recommendations that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health.The recommendations were developed by leaders of the Open Access movement, which has worked …
“Getting a Bachelor’s degree is the best way for most workers to make middle-class wages. In this report, however, we show there are 29 million jobs (21% of all jobs) for workers without Bachelor’s degrees. The report also details five major sub-baccaulareate, career and technical education (CTE) pathways: employer-based training, industry-based certifications, apprenticeships, postsecondary certificates, …
