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“Wordnik is a new way to discover meaning. This page will give you a quick overview of what you can do, learn, and share with Wordnik. Wordnik shows definitions from multiple sources, so you can see as many different takes on a word’s meaning as possible. For more information about the sources of our dictionary …
“Now in its 30th year, The Industry Report is recognized as the training industrys most trusted source of data on budgets, staffing, and programs. This year, the study was conducted by an outside research firm in May/June 2011, when members from the Training magazine database were e-mailed an invitation to participate in an online survey. …
News release: “Americans who have health insurance have higher Healthy Behaviors Index scores than the uninsured at any age in the 18 to 64 cohort. This holds true even after controlling for age, gender, education, ethnicity, employment, and income. Overall, 80% of American adults younger than 65 report having health insurance coverage. This analysis is …
Print libraries, book collections, book shops – targets of fiscal austerity, the growing impact and power of e-books, social media, pay walls, e-commerce structures, and changing values about print media itself – are increasing disappearing. Regardless of the application of specific determining factors, the results are increased thresholds to open access to “knowledge.” There is …
Gallup news release, by Jeffrey M. Jones: “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama continue to be named by Americans as the Most Admired Woman and Most Admired Man living today in any part of the world. Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the last 10 years, and Obama has …
Enhancing Personnel Reliability among Individuals with Access to Select Agents, Report of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), December 2011 “Scientific research on highly pathogenic microorganisms and toxins underpins our ability to successfully combat infectious diseases affecting humans, animals and plants, and enables the development of effective countermeasures against bioterrorism threats. An in-depth …
“This is the second edition of the World Giving Index, the largest study into charitable behaviour across the globe involving 153 countries in total. Using data from Gallup’s Worldview World Poll, the report is based on three measures of giving behaviour – giving money, volunteering time and helping a stranger. The results show that the …
Its a Social World: Top 10 Need-to-Knows About Social Networking and Where Its Headed, December 21, 2011 “The importance of social networking in todays online experience cannot be overstated. Social networking is the most popular online activity worldwide accounting for nearly 1 in every 5 minutes spent online in October 2011, and reaches 82 percent …
via Nature: “Even though an elephants leg looks like a solid column, it actually stands on tip-toe like a horse or a dog. Its heel rests on a large pad of fat that gives it a flat-footed appearance. The pad hides a sixth toe a backward-pointing strut that evolved from one of their sesamoids, …
“Welcome to the Beta version of MyFCC, a new tool that lets you create a customized FCC online experience, with quick access to the tools and information that you need…Personalization options built into MyFCC make it possible to easily create, save and manage a customized page, or dashboard. Choose from a menu of widgets featuring …
Via LLRX.com – Using tablet computers, e-libraries, and family literacy initiatives to encourage young children to read: David H. Rotham continues to articulate and comprehensively document the case that a public national digital library system should serve people of all income levels and all ages, centenarians included. In this article he focuses on how books …
“As the country struggles to recover from the impact of the Great Recession, one much discussed and analyzed economic measure has been the number of Americans who are unemployed. NPR News and the Kaiser Family Foundation partnered on the Long-Term Unemployed Survey to better describe the experiences and views of two groups of individuals: the …
