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News release: “Focused on identifying opportunities to improve, The Commonwealth Fund’s State Scorecard on Health System Performance assesses states performance on health care relative to achievable benchmarks for 38 indicators of access, quality, costs, and health outcomes. The 2009 State Scorecard paints a picture of health care systems under stress, with deteriorating health insurance coverage …
“A newly issued study provides a comprehensive source of data and analysis on space activities and their cumulative impact on the security of outer space. Space Security 2009 has been jointly released by Project Ploughshares and Secure World Foundation on behalf of the Space Security Index, an international research consortium. This is the sixth annual …
Make Our Food Safe: “Every year, 76 million Americans are sickened from consuming contaminated food and 5,000 of these people die. Thats more than the number of individuals who lose their lives as a result of fire or unintentional drowning in the U.S. each year. Continued outbreaks of foodborne illness over the last several …
This video is nothing short of delightful, and as someone who has taken Metro to/from work for 30 years, I sure would appreciate the option of this musical staircase.
Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book Settlement, this New York Times Op-Ed today: A Library to Last Forever, by Sergey Brin/Google: “Because books are such an important part of the worlds collective knowledge and cultural heritage, Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, first proposed that we digitize all books a decade ago, …
News release: “Recent moves by major food manufacturers to remove High Fructose Corn Syrup from products despite FDA recommendations and a costly campaign by the corn lobby are indicative of increased consumer awareness and the powerful influence of online social networking sites and tools focused on what we eat. One new entry to …
Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap, Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center, October 2009. “Nearly nine-in-ten (89%) Latino young adults ages 16 to 25 say that a college education is important for success in life, yet only about half that number-48%-say that they themselves plan to get a college degree, according to …
The Changing Pathways of Hispanic Youths Into Adulthood, by Richard Fry, Senior Research Associate, Pew Hispanic Center “Young Latino adults in the United States are more likely to be in school or the work force now than their counterparts were in previous generations. In 1970, 77% of Hispanics ages 16 to 251 were either working, …
International Union for Conservation of Nature: Species Extinction The Facts “The world is, and always has been, in a state of flux. Over hundreds of millions of years, continents have broken apart, oceans appeared, mountains formed and worn away. With geological change come changes in living things: species, populations, and whole lineages disappear, and …
The Status and Distribution of Dragonflies of the Mediterranean Basin, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: One fifth of Mediterranean dragonflies and damselflies are threatened with extinction at the regional level as a result of increasing freshwater scarcity, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Climate change and habitat degradation, …
Mixed-use Incubator Handbook: A Start-up Guide for Incubator Developers – August, 2009 by Mark Davies, BusyInternet “In general, an incubator is a physical location that provides a defined set of services to individuals or small companies. This may include specific types of office space, flexible lease terms, access to technology, financing, and technical assistance (such …
White House Proclamation: “Every American deserves an opportunity to study, understand, and contribute to the arts and humanities. This must begin in our schools, where children may have their first and most important exposure to these disciplines. Working on their own masterpieces and finding inspiration in the work of others, young people are opened to …
