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The Atlantic: 10 Industries Where Women Earn Less Than Men – “Women continue to struggle for equal pay in the workplace. For at least two decades, they have earned 80% of the wages of men doing equivalent jobs. That should be a shock to most people, since the feminist movement is several decades old. Sadly …
Raptor Resource Project Decorah Eagle Cam: First Egg Laid: 2/23/2011 First Hatch: 4/1/2011 – Second Hatch: 4/3/2011 – Third Hatch: 4/6/2011
“The 2010 Catalyst Census: Financial Post 500 Women Senior Officers and Top Earners details womens representation in senior leadership positions at the largest companies in Canada. This biennial report provides critical statistics to gauge womens advancement into leadership and highlights the gender diversity gap. Each year Catalyst tracks: Womens share of senior officer positions. Womens …
“In recognition of the power of millions of individual actions, Earth Day 2011 will be organized around A Billion Acts of Green®: Personal, organizational and corporate pledges to live and act sustainably. At over 45 million actions to date, A Billion Acts of Green® campaign the largest environmental service campaign in the world …
OPEN Compute Project: We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers …
Civil Eats: “A one dollar bag of rice in the U.S. is not the same as a one dollar bag of rice in Indonesia. For an American, who, on average, devotes about seven percent of his or her spending to food, it wont matter that much if the price of rice doubles to two dollars. …
Stop the Madness: The Insanity of ROI and the Need for New Qualitative Measures of Academic Library Success, by James G. Neal – Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. “This paper is not a scientific study or a literature review or a reasoned analysis of the assessment literature on academic …
gizmag: “Two undergraduate students from Toronto’s Ryerson University have created a prosthetic arm that is controlled by its wearer’s brain signals, and powered by compressed air. Not only is the Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm said to offer a greater range of movement than traditional prostheses, but it also doesn’t require the amputee to undergo invasive …
Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing, Philip M. Davis, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York “Does free access to journal articles result in greater diffusion of scientific knowledge? Using a randomized controlled trial of open access publishing, involving 36 participating journals in the sciences, social sciences, and …
Japans Nuclear Woes Give Rise to Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US, by Aaron Saenz “The worlds eyes have been on Japan, watching the nation cope with earthquakes, tsunamis, and now the threat of poisoning from nuclear radiation. While the nations emergency workers are making valiant efforts to combat dangers from the Fukushima I …
News release: “The latest update of the OED, published on 24 March 2011, revises more than 1,900 entries and adds new words from across the dictionary. The OED’s chief editor, John Simpson, provides some observations on the revisions in this update, while Graeme Diamond and Katherine Martin comment on some of the most interesting new …
Privacy Impact Assessment for the Use of Unidirectional Social Media Applications Communications and Outreach, March 8, 2011. Kathleen McShea Director of New Media and Web Communications, Office of Public Affairs, Department of Homeland Security “Unidirectional social media applications encompass a range of applications, often referred to as applets or widgets, that allow users to view …
