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Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2008 (124 pages, PDF) “Freedom House has prepared this overview report as a companion to our annual survey on the state of global political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World. We are publishing this report to assist policymakers, human rights organizations, democracy advocates, and …
Hard Hats See Hard Times: “Today’s worries about the state of the job market are far more heavily concentrated in the lower portions of the income spectrum,” by Michael Dimock, Associate Director for Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, May 7, 2008.
IEEE Spectrum Q&A With IARPA Director Lisa Porter: “We’ve divided the agency into three offices, and those really explain how we parse the problems intelligence research is focused on: Smart Collection, Incisive Analysis, and Safe and Secure Operations. Those three thrust areas span the space of the intelligence problem. The first, Smart Collection: we want …
Analysis of the National Counterterrorism Center Annual Report on Terrorism, David Heyman, May 1, 2008. Center for Strategic & International Studies “Despite local and international efforts, the number of attacks worldwide have remained constant and still up sharply since 2005. The lethalitythe ability to kill or injure peoplehowever, has gone up by about 10 percent. …
News release: “The states of Louisiana and Vermont may be part of the same nation, but they are worlds apart when it comes to the well-being of children living within their borders. Across the United States, where a child is born and raised can make a shockingly large difference to their chances of getting and …
News release: “Challenging the perception of American technology entrepreneurs as 20-something wunderkinds launching businesses from college dorm rooms, a new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and researchers at Duke and Harvard universities reveals most U.S.-born technology and engineering company founders are middle-aged, well-educated and hold degrees from a wide assortment of universities.” Education …
Deloitte Research Study – One Size Fits Few: Using Customer Insight to Transform Government: “This study defines the emerging discipline of customer strategy in the 21st century, and shows how the insights of citizens can help your agency make more informed decisions, design and deliver more successful policies and programs, and improve customer service. In …
The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States, Majid Ezzati, Ari B. Friedman, Sandeep C. Kulkarni, Christopher J. L. Murray. Open access via Public Library of Science, PLoS Medicine, April 2008, Vol. 5, No. 4, e66 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050066. “There was a steady increase in mortality inequality across the …
Science 2.0 – Is Open Access Science the Future? Is posting raw results online, for all to see, a great tool or a great risk? By M. Mitchell Waldrop: “Science 2.0 generally refers to new practices of scientists who post raw experimental results, nascent theories, claims of discovery and draft papers on the Web for …
“Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group. Skin Deep pairs ingredients in more than 25,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind. Why did a small nonprofit take on …
ReCellular: “You can make a difference with cell phone recycling. Help our environment and the planet. Help a charity and a person in need. Hundreds of millions of used cell phones are taken out of service each year around the world as new innovations reach the marketplace. One in three Americans will replace their cell …
News release: “Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan 300,000 in all report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slightly more than half have sought treatment, according to a new RAND Corporation study. In addition, researchers found about 19 percent of …
