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Older Adults and Social Media – Social networking use among those ages 50 and older nearly doubled over the past year, Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist, August 27, 2010: “While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. …
News release: “New analysis of industry data released today by the national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch finds that almost half of all bottled water sold in U.S. retail outlets in PET plastic bottles now comes from municipal tap water supplies. Bottling Our Cities Tap Water shows that between 2000 and 2009 the …
News release: “The national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch released its 2010 Smart Seafood Guide to direct consumers in making safer, more sustainable seafood decisions. This year, researchers analyzed over 100 types of seafood (60 percent more than in 2009) to create the only guide assessing not only the human health and environmental …
Official Google Blog: When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Today were making our most significant enhancements to date, giving …
“The THOMAS Share Tool allows you to print THOMAS pages and search results, subscribe to regular updates from THOMAS, and share THOMAS content in a number of ways. You can post THOMAS links on social networking Web sites such as Facebook or Twitter, send links by e-mail, and post links to or embed THOMAS content …
News release: “With more than 32,000 islands in its waters, the Great Lakes contain the worlds largest collection of freshwater islands, but these islands are dynamic, undergoing many changes that threaten the islands flora and fauna, including climate change, habitat degradation, invasive species and some natural processes, according to a new report published by scientists …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this related news {inclusive of video link]: “Using a cutting edge nanotechnology, researchers at MIT have created a robotic prototype that could autonomously navigate the surface of the ocean to collect surface oil and process it on site. The system, called Seaswarm, is a fleet …
Fyfe, J. C., N. P. Gillett, and D. W. J. Thompson (2010), Comparing variability and trends in observed and modelled global-mean surface temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L16802, oi:10.1029/2010GL044255. “The observed evolution of the global-mean surface temperature over the twentieth century reflects the combined influences of natural variations and anthropogenic forcing, and it is a …
Progress Seen in New Orleans, Gulf Rebuilding – Five Years After Katrina, Most Say Nation is Not Better Prepared, August 26, 2010 “Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, a majority of Americans (57%) say that the nation is no better prepared for hurricanes and other natural disasters than it …
Google Voice Blog: “Google Voice lets you manage all your phone communications and seamlessly make and receive calls on any of your existing phones. But what if you dont have your phone with you? Or what if youre in a place with poor cell phone reception, or youre travelling internationally and dont want to incur …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via Grant Thornton – The implications of the April 2010 oil spill on deepwater exploration and production, Summer 2010: “This paper outlines the ramifications of BPs Macondo well disaster for energy exploration and production (E&P) businesses. The prospects of drilling and operating in the Gulf …
Nielsen Wire: “According to Nielsen, African-Americans use the most voice minutes on average more than 1,300 a month. Hispanics are the next most talkative group, chatting an average of 826 minutes a month. Even Asians/Pacific Islanders, with 692 average monthly minutes, talk more than Whites, who use roughly 647 voice minutes a month. African-Americans …
