Via Robotic Trends – “A new method of 3D printing, which has been a decade in the making, can produce human-sized bone, muscle, and cartilage. And when implanted into mice and rats, the 3D-printed ear, cartilage and bone all grew and developed blood vessels. The 3D-printed skeletal muscle has similar results, contracting like developing muscle… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Opportunity Project – working together to increase opportunity by harnessing the power of data
“In early 2016, the White House, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development facilitated a process in which tech developers worked with subject matter experts and cities to build digital tools that help families, community leaders, local officials, and the media to access what they need to thrive. This effort… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – GAO FY2017 Budget Request, Troubled Asset Relief Program
Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-16-409T: Published: Mar 8, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 8, 2016: “In fiscal year 2015, GAO’s work resulted in an unprecedented return of about $134 for every dollar invested in GAO, generating an estimated $74.7 billion in financial benefits. Implementation of GAO’s recommendations also led to 1,286… Continue Reading
OECD countries confirm their drive to improve gender equality in public leadership
“OECD countries have strengthened their determination to work towards greater gender equality in public life – including in governments, parliaments and judiciaries – with concrete measures to improve women’s access to leadership and decision-making roles and integrate more of a gender perspective into public policies. The OECD Recommendation on Gender Equality in Public Life, launched on… Continue Reading
Report – Global Wealth of Millennials Lagging Behind
The Guardian – “Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth. The full scale of the financial rout facing millennials is revealed today in exclusive new data that points to a perfect storm of factors besetting an entire generation of young adults… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Medicaid, Provider Networks, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Medicaid: Federal Guidance Needed to Address Concerns About Distribution of Supplemental Payments, GAO-16-108: Published: Feb 5, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 7, 2016. Provider Networks: Comparison of Child-Focused Network Adequacy Standards between CHIP and Private Health Plans, GAO-16-219: Published: Feb 5, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 7, 2016. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act: Information on Planned Changes… Continue Reading
Google Reverse image search
Google Search Help – ” You can use a picture as your search to find related images from around the web. How reverse image search works When you search using an image, your search results may include: Similar images Sites that include the image Other sizes of the image you searched for Search using an… Continue Reading
UK Data Services Big Data Support
UK Big Data Network Support – “The public and commercial sectors are continuously generating large amounts of data. These data, ‘big data’, represent a significant resource for society; they can provide a powerful discovery tool for researchers, enabling them to gain valuable insight, but present great challenges for reuse in terms of volume and complexity.… Continue Reading
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Via Steven Aftergood – FAS: “The term “climate change” was included for the first time in the latest revision of the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (Joint Publication 1-02), published last week. Climate change is officially defined by DoD as “Variations in average weather conditions that persist over multiple decades or… Continue Reading
Sales of Cars and Car Parts Dealers at $1 Trillion
“Car and car parts dealers (NAICS 441) had sales of $1.0 trillion, representing an increase of 6.5 percent over the previous year, according to new statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 Annual Retail Trade Survey. Statistics presented for the entire retail trade sector show (NAICS 44-45) food services and drinking places (NAICS… Continue Reading
NY Fed Blog – Banking Deserts, Branch Closings, and Soft Information
Banking Deserts, Branch Closings, and Soft Information – Donald Morgan, Maxim Pinkovsky, and Bryan Yang – Liberty Street Economics, March 7, 2016. “U.S. banks have shuttered nearly 5,000 branches since the financial crisis, raising concerns that more low-income and minority neighborhoods may be devolving into “banking deserts” with inadequate, or no, mainstream financial services. We… Continue Reading
BIS Statistical Bulletin, March 2016
“The BIS Statistical Bulletin March 2016 [303 pages – PDF] provides an extensive overview of the statistics published by the BIS. Statistics published in the Bulletin are compiled in cooperation with central banks and other national authorities and are designed to inform analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers and global liquidity. Some BIS statistics,… Continue Reading
