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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, WSJ reports BP Relied on Cheaper Wells: “In recent years, oil giant BP PLC used a well design that has been called “risky” by Congressional investigators in more than one out of three of its deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico, significantly more often …
Adults and Cell Phone Distractions, by Mary Madden, Lee Rainie, June 18, 2010 “Cell phones appeal to Americans for many reasons, starting with the benefits of constant connection to family and friends. In the era of smart phones, instant and ubiquitous access to information, news, and games on handheld devices also draws users into deeper …
What is Open Source? – In the past few years, the term open source has been bandied about not just in library-land, but in every industry. When a term is talked about this much, some would say to the point of overuse, people start to think it’s a fad. In this and upcoming articles, Nicole …
WSJ.com: “Ms. Molloy, a 54-year-old librarian at New Mexico State University here, spends most mornings sifting reports in the Mexican press to create a tally of drug-cartel-related killings in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. She is striving to fill a widening information gap about these homicides in Juárez, some 50 miles southeast of Las Cruces, across the …
Transition to Adulthood The Future of Children, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2010, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2010. A Collaboration of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. “Todays young people are taking longer to leave home, attain economic independence, and form families of their …
Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic, June 6, 2010, by Jeffrey S. Passel, Wendy Wang and Paul Taylor “A record 14.6% of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. This includes marriages between a Hispanic and non- …
Closing the Digital Frontier: “The era of the Web browsers dominance is coming to a close. And the Internets founding ideology that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing …
News release: “Now, we at NPR well know that our listeners and readers are different than other news “consumers.” NPR people are loyal. You count on the consistency, quality and integrity of our news and programming every day and we appreciate that. So we didn’t change NPR.org lightly. We’ve listened to your suggestions – and …
For all of us who have been engaged in animal rights issues for many decades, this cover article, The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome, is a vivid and painful reminder how little has changed, and how much work we will always have before us. “In addition to a growing sensitivity to the rights of animals, another significant reason …
CNET News: “The Nokero N100 solar LED light bulb is meant to replace kerosene lamps as a lighting source in the developing world. The company says 1.6 billion people still lack sufficient access to electricity, and many burn fossil fuels for light, which can be dangerous and expensive. The N100 solar bulb is about the …
Orientation in technological space by Albert Borgmann: “Like addiction, cyber disorientation is the restless pursuit of the unobtainable. The Internet inflames and disappoints the desire for news in an endless cycle of ever more diverse and seductive news. Disorienting addiction can have grave consequences when a youngster gets lost in video games or the global …
Official Google Blog: “…we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to …
