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Announcement by Eva Galperin: “Back in December of 2010, Facebook debuted its tag suggestion feature, which works by using facial recognition technology to examine photos in which youve already been tagged, and then creating what Facebook calls your photo summary or photo comparison information, or what well call your facial fingerprint. Using this information, FB …
PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute, Health Reform Prospering in a post-reform world, June 2001 “To prosper in the post-reform world, health executives will need to reassess current strategies and find ways to work together. This report illustrates the mega trends that each sector (provider, payer, and pharmaceutical and life sciences) will face as a result of …
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Timothy J. Dickey, and Marie L. Radford. 2011. “‘If It is Too Inconvenient, I’m Not Going After It.:’ Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-seeking Behaviors.” Library and Information Science Research, 33: 179-190. doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2010.12.002 Pre-print. “In today’s fast-paced world, anecdotal evidence suggests that information tends to inundate people, and users of information …
environment 360: “For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. But as that ice buffer disappears, increasingly powerful storm surges are eroding the coastline and sending walls of seawater inland, devastating Arctic ecosystems that support abundant wildlife…” by Ed Struzik “A recent study conducted by Benjamin Jones …
Follow up to recent posting, World Health Organization: Radio frequency electromagnetic fields are possibly carcinogenic, news that highlights findings: Some cell phones safer than others, tests find CNET: Cell phone radiation levels – by Nicole Lee, Kent German NYT: Piercing the Fog Around Cellphones and Cancer, By Tara Parker Pope
What’s it Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors – Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, Michelle Melton – Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, May 2011 “When considering the question of whether earning a college degree is worth the investment in these uncertain economic times, here is a number to keep in mind: 84 …
News release: “Propelled by growth in nearly every region, global wealth continued a solid recovery in 2010, increasing by 8.0 percent, or $9 trillion, to a record of $121.8 trillion.1 That level was about $20 trillion above where it stood just two years prior during the depths of the financial crisis, according to a new …
WSJ [includes data chart[: “Auto sales dropped in May, but the prices consumers paid for new cars were higher than ever. According to estimates by TrueCar.com, an industry research and forecasting company, the average transaction price for passenger vehicles in the U.S. totaled $29,817 in May, an increase of $608 or 2.1% compared with a …
News release: “The National AcademiesNational Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Councilare committed to distributing their reports to as wide an audience as possible. Since 1994 we have offered Read for Free options for almost all our titles. In addition, we have been offering free downloads of most …
Official Google Blog – Mining patterns in search data with Google Correlate: “…[Using] Google Correlate, which were launching today on Google Labs…you can upload your own data series and see a list of search terms whose popularity best corresponds with that real world trend. In the example below, we uploaded official flu activity data from …
The costly war on cancer: “Cancer is not one disease. It is many. Yet oncologists have long used the same blunt weapons to fight different types of cancer: cut the tumour out, zap it with radiation or blast it with chemotherapy that kills good cells as well as bad ones. New cancer drugs are changing …
Federal Computer Week: “NASA is the first federal agency to venture into creating an aggregation network on the SlideShare Web platform, officials announced May 16. The NASA Universe network that started May 16 on SlideShare provides links to the agencys videos, slide presentations and other documents shared from SlideShare channels sponsored by NASA headquarters and …
