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News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making it easier to find chemical information online. EPA is releasing a database, called ToxRefDB, which allows scientists and the interested public to search and download thousands of toxicity testing results on hundreds of chemicals. ToxRefDB captures 30 years and $2 billion of testing results….ToxRefDB provides …
News release: “Data through February 2010, released today by Standard & Poors for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the annual rates of decline of the 10-City and 20-City Composites improved in February compared to January 2010. For the first time since December 2006, the annual rates …
“Our long-term vision for ThisWeKnow is to model the entire data.gov catalog and make it available to the public using Semantic Web standards as a large-scale online database. ThisWeKnow will provide citizens with a single destination where they can search and browse all the information the government collects. It will also provide other application developers …
“24 Hours: Unplugged – What is is like to go without media? What if you had to give up your cell phone, iPod, television, car radio, magazines, newspapers and computer (i.e. no texting, no Facebook or IM-ing)? Could you do it? Is it even possible? Well, not really, if you are an American college student …
Who Borrows Most? Bachelors Degree Recipients with High Levels of Student Debt, by Sandy Baum & Patricia Steele – The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center “Many discussions of student loan debt are clouded by a failure to distinguish between typical students and the growing minority who borrow amounts and types of loans that are …
Generalized satisfaction of search: Adverse influences on dual-target search accuracy – Mathias S. Fleck, Ehsan Samei, and Stephen R. Mitroff, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Carl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center “The successful detection of a target in a radiological search can …
“FDA-TRACK is a new agency-wide program performance management system that monitors over 100 FDA program offices through key performance measures. These measures are developed by the program offices across the FDA and reported on a monthly basis. Each quarter, monthly performance data is analyzed and senior managers present this data to FDA senior leadership. This …
“Each year, Technology Review selects what it believes are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The winners are chosen based on the editors coverage of key fields. The question that we ask is simple: is the technology likely to change the world? Some of these changes are on the largest scale possible: better biofuels, more …
Net Generation – Preparing for Change in the Federal Information Technology Workforce, Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council, April 2010 “The increasingly senior federal workforce, and their anticipated retirement from federal service, continues to top the list of human capital concerns across government. The Federal Government needs the right mix of high performing information technology …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau reported today more women than men are expected to occupy professions such as doctors, lawyers and college professors as they represent approximately 58 percent of young adults, age 25 to 29, who hold an advanced degree. In addition, among all adults 25 and older, more women than men had …
Teens and Mobile Phones – Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends, April 20, 2010 “Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily …
Follow up to previous postings on childhood and adolescent obesity, this new report: Too Fat to Fight – Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of Americas Schools. A report by Mission: Readiness, Military Leaders for Kids, April 2010. “Mission: Readiness, an organization of retired senior military leaders, is warning Congress that at least nine …
