“Eclipse-mania is sweeping the United States. From Oregon to South Carolina, 14 states will experience a total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. It will be the first event of its kind in the continental U.S. since 1979. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, fully or partially blocking… Continue Reading
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24/7 Wall St – Cities Adding the Most Jobs in Every State
“As the United States recovered from the recession and began one of its longest periods of economic growth, the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, nearly its lowest point in a decade and far less than its peak of 10.0% in October 2009. One driver of economic growth was the nation’s cities, which together added approximately… Continue Reading
Digital Planet 2017: How Competitiveness and Trust in Digital Economies Vary Across the World
“Every day, billions of people around the world use the internet to share ideas, trade with one another and keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues. With worldwide internet penetration at nearly 50 percent, the global digital economy has become a space of immense opportunity. Similarly, it’s clear that both business and consumer transactions… Continue Reading
National Geographic Photographer of the Year Winners
The National Geographic award winning photos for 2017 are magnificent – enjoy them: Nature – Cities [includes a remarkable photo modern interior of the city library in Stuttgart, Germany] – People. Continue Reading
Pew – Local TV News Fact Sheet
“Local television news programming has shed audience over the past decade, including this past year in most timeslots studied. Even with these viewership losses, local TV news still garners more viewers on average than cable and network news programs. However, for election news in particular – a big part of last year’s news agenda –… Continue Reading
United Nations Digital Library Now Free to All Users
[Via Ramona Kohrs, External Relations Coordinator, UN Depository Libraries Programme]:”We are pleased to inform you that the United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) (URL: https://digitallibrary.un.org) is now available and can be accessed globally free of charge. The new platform runs on innovative open source technology developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and is… Continue Reading
Report – changing face of business and the part artificial intelligence has to play
Accenture via World Economic Fortune: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the single most disruptive technology the world has seen since the Industrial Revolution. Granted, there is a lot of hype out there on AI, along with doomsday headlines and scary movies. But the reality is that it will positively and materially change how we engage… Continue Reading
NIST Periodic Table of the Elements
Periodic Table of the Elements – 2016 periodic table Version History | Database Disclaimer R.A. Dragoset, A. Musgrove, C.W. Clark, and W.C. Martin NIST, Physical Measurement Laboratory “A periodic table, containing NIST critically-evaluated data on atomic properties of the elements was designed as a NIST handout for use at exhibitions and trade shows. The publication… Continue Reading
TIME 100 – The Most Influential Images of All Time
TIME: “Though photography is a much younger medium than painting—the first photo is widely considered to date from 1826—the astonishing technological advances since then mean that there are now far more pictures taken every day than there are canvases in all the world’s galleries and museums. In 2016 alone, hundreds of billions of images were… Continue Reading
HBR – What Successful Movements Have in Common
“…The truth is that it’s no longer enough to capture the trappings of power, because movements made up of small groups are able to synchronize their actions through networks. So if you want to effect lasting change today, it’s no longer enough to merely command resources, you have to inspire opponents to join your cause.… Continue Reading
The Two Americas of the 2016 Presidential Election
Tim Wallace, New York Times: “For many Americans, it feels as if the 2016 election split the country in two. To visualize this, we took the election results and created two new imaginary nations by slicing the country along the sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas.” Continue Reading
Publications on the Australian Generations Collection
Australian Generations oral history theme issue of Australian Historical Studies “The latest theme issue of Australian Historical Studies (AHS), edited by Katie Holmes and Alistair Thomson, features seven articles by members of the Australian Generations team in which we use the project’s oral history interviews to illuminate a range of topics in Australian social history,… Continue Reading
