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The Future of the Electric Grid: “For well over a century, electricity has made vital contributions to the growth of the U.S. economy and the quality of American life. The U.S. electric grid is a remarkable achievement, linking electric generation units reliably and efficiently to millions of residential, commercial, and industrial users of electricity through …
North American Energy Inventory December 2011, Institute for Energy Research (IER) “In 1980, official estimates of proved oil reserves in the United States stood at roughly 30 billion barrels. Yet over the past 30 years, more than 77 billion barrels of oil have been produced here. In other words, over the last 30 years, the …
A mandate to preserve – Assessing the inaugural Newspaper Archive Summit, by Victoria McCargar “Historically, when a newspaper ceased publication, the photographs, clippings and bound volumes were handed off to the local historical society or public library. They sat there, and many continue to sit there, until the organization decided what to do with them. …
William Pannapacker is an associate professor of English at Hope College, in Holland, Mich: “Contrary to many futuristic projectionseven from bibliophiles who, as a group, enjoy melancholy reveriesthe recent technological revolution has only deepened the affection that many scholars have for books and libraries, and highlighted the need for the preservation, study, and cherishing of …
“Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics (On-demand self-service, …
“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 …
“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 …
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!
“Expedias Vacation Deprivation study is an annual analysis of vacation habits across multiple countries and continents. The 2011 study spans North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. It reveals who gets and takes the most vacation time, as well as attitudes toward vacation. Common themes impacting how and where respondents vacation include …
“The University of Pittsburgh is fortunate to own one of the rare, complete sets of John James Audubons Birds of America. It is considered to be the single most valuable set of volumes in the collections of the University Library System (ULS). Indeed, only 120 complete sets are known to exist. While Audubon was creating …
News release via Andrea Titus: “Two big updates from Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy’s [CDDEP] Extending the Cure project… First, ResistanceMap has released its first ever interactive visualizations on antibiotic use. The new maps show trends in outpatient prescribing across the United States over time, and viewers can sort data by geography (at …
“The Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices track and rank 40 countries’ renewable energy markets across a selection of technologies each quarter. As policy-makers scramble to stop recession tightening its grip on major economies, demographic changes and growth in emerging markets appear to be driving renewable energy investment. Developed countries are focused on slowing demand and …
