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“Download the new report The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives dont have to cost the Earth, first published in July 2009. The report presents the results of the second global compilation of the Happy Planet Index, based on improved data for 143 countries around the world representing 99 per cent of the …
An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer, by Eric C. Sun et al.: “For decades, the US public and private sectors have committed substantial resources towards cancer research, but the societal payoff has not been well-understood. We quantify the value of recent gains in cancer survival, and analyze the distribution of value among various …
WSJ.com: “An Arctic blast swept across a large swath of the U.S. on Monday, sending temperatures plunging from Minnesota to Florida and bringing a bone-chilling start to the first workweek of the year…Temperatures fell below zero from the Great Plains to the Northeast, following a weekend of heavy snow. The reading of minus-16 degrees in …
The Secret Language of Elephants: “For two decades, a group of wild African elephants has been watched over, studied and protected by their own guardian angel: an extraordinary American scientist named Andrea Turkalo. Turkalo’s own story is pretty amazing, but not nearly as compelling as the insights into elephant behavior her research has revealed, especially …
Security in the Ether – Information technology’s next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud–and prove we can trust it. By David Talbot, Technology Review, January/February 2010 [Dan Mitchel] “In 2006, when Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), it was a watershed event in the quest to transform computing into a ubiquitous utility, …
Google Scholar: A New Way to Search for Cases and Related Legal Publications – Courtney Minick and David Tsai provide an overview of the new features Google Scholar provides for the legal research market.
Harnessing Free-Flowing Competitive Intelligence Through Social Media Sites: “For competitive intelligence research purposes, traditional Web sites (read Web 1.0) have offered a range of valuable information for those seeking to get a leg up on the competition. But that information has had its limitsenter a new breed of Web resources that break out of the …
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is Europe’s largest HR development professional body: “This factsheet gives introductory guidance. It: summarises the literature on emotional intelligence; looks at its potential value in the workplace; considers whether it can be learned; asks whether it is just another way of describing long-established competencies; includes the CIPD viewpoint.”
“Mercers H1N1 pages are meant to provide you with access to current “information and resources to help manage the risks. Now, you can see the results of our survey – Influenza A (H1N1): How is your organization coping? – that gathered information from nearly 1000 companies to see what they are doing to plan, communicate …
“The mission of the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP), a nonprofit charity watchdog and information service, is to maximize the effectiveness of every dollar contributed to charity by providing donors with the information they need to make more informed giving decisions. Goals: To research and evaluate the efficiency, accountability and governance of nonprofit organizations; to …
Aquacalypse Now – The End of Fish, by Daniel Pauly “Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madofflike callousness by the worlds fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized–with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS–they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, …
Green Protectionism in the European Union: How Europes Biofuels Policy and the Renewable Energy Directive Violate WTO Commitments, European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) “This paper examines the trade-policy consequences of current approaches to biofuels. The paper is not concerned with possible adverse environmental consequences of policy aimed at switching to biofuels. Such consequences …
