The Economic Benefits Of New Spectrum For Wireless Broadband, February 2012 “The surge in wireless data traffic has caused a spectrum crunch. With the proliferation of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices with internet access, wireless data traffic has grown tremendously, increasing by more than 100% between 2009 and 2010. Industry forecasters expect that a… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
CDC – Majority of dairy-related disease outbreaks linked to raw milk
News release: “The rate of outbreaks caused by unpasteurized milk (often called raw milk) and products made from it was 150 times greater than outbreaks linked to pasteurized milk, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 13-year review also revealed that the states where the sale of raw milk… Continue Reading
Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress
Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress. Lennard G. Kruger, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, February 9, 2012 “Currently, an important aspect of the Internet is governed by a private sector, international organization called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages and oversees some of the critical… Continue Reading
State Energy Data System: Liquefied Petroleum Gases and Other Petroleum Products Through 2010
State Energy Data System: Liquefied Petroleum Gases and Other Petroleum Products Through 2010: “New releases of energy consumption, price, and expenditure estimates by energy source. Descriptions of the codes in the data files are listed here (xls).” Continue Reading
Law Review Circulation 2011: More Change, More Same
Law Review Circulation 2011: More Change, More Same. Ross E. Davies George Mason University School of Law; The Green Bag; Journal of Law, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 179-188, 2012; Journal of Legal Metrics, Vol. 1, 2012; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-15 “Every year, the tallying of law review circulation numbers… Continue Reading
New Study: Americans Pay More for Weather Catastrophes as Insurers Increasingly Shift Costs to Consumers and Taxpayers
“The Consumer Federation of American (CFA) today released a new study with insurance industry data that found that insurance companies have significantly and methodically decreased their financial responsibility for weather catastrophes like hurricanes, tornados and floods in recent years, shifting much of the risk and costs for these events to consumers and taxpayers. The report… Continue Reading
The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education
“The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education distills the results of studies to examine the state of education in the United States. In particular, the report focuses on education policy, student learning measures, trends on achievement test scores and education reform outcomes.” How Well Students Are Learning – With sections on predicting the effect… Continue Reading
NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light
News release: “A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth’s forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests play in climate change and how their heights influence wildlife habitats within them, while also helping them quantify the carbon stored in Earth’s vegetation. Scientists from NASA’s… Continue Reading
LLRX.com: Animal Rights in the Human Legal System
Via LLRX.com: Animal Rights in the Human Legal System – The struggle for human rights has gone on for ages, but the story of animal rights has only begun to be told. Ken Strutin’s guide is a compilation of new and notable legal resources on animal rights and welfare. Its jurisprudence takes into account the… Continue Reading
Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value
Who Gives A Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value, Paul André – Carnegie Mellon; Michael Bernstein – MIT, and Kurt Luther – Georgia Tech, February 2012 “While microblog readers have a wide variety of reactions to the content they see, studies have tended to focus on extremes such as retweeting and unfollowing. To understand the broad… Continue Reading
Windows IE Team: Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings
Follow up to Third-Party Cookie Blocking in Safari Bypassed For Millions of Users, this posting via the Windows Internet Explorer Engineering Team Blog: “When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too? Weve… Continue Reading
EPA Updates Science Assessment for Dioxins
News release: “…the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its non-cancer science assessment for dioxins, which was last reviewed in the 1980s. Dioxins are toxic chemicals that naturally exist in the environment and can be released into the environment through forest fires, backyard burning of trash, certain industrial activities, and residue from past commercial burning… Continue Reading
