Science Daily: “Strategy-based cognitive training has the potential to enhance cognitive performance and spill over to real-life benefit according to a data-driven perspective article. The research-based perspective highlights cognitive, neural and real-life changes measured in randomized clinical trials that compared a gist-reasoning strategy-training program to memory training in populations ranging from teenagers to healthy older… Continue Reading
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Director of National Intelligence Requires Pre-Publication Review of all Info
Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News [snipped] : “All employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are required to obtain authorization before disclosing any intelligence-related information to the public. “All ODNI personnel are required to submit all official and non-official information intended for public release for review,” says ODNI Instruction 80.04 on “Pre-publication Review of Information to… Continue Reading
UN Mission on South Sudan Public Human Rights Reports
News release: “The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has today released a public report on the gross violations of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law that have occurred since the conflict in the world’s newest nation began on 15 December 2013. The report, entitled “Conflict in South Sudan: A Human Rights Report”, follows… Continue Reading
Reducing Poverty Through Climate Action
A Strategy for Global Development Leaders | Molly Elgin-Cossart, Cathleen Kelly, and Abigail Jones | May 8, 2014 “Climate change is already affecting every continent across the globe, and people living in developing countries will fare far worse than most in a warmer world, warns a March report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC.… Continue Reading
Learning By Thinking: How Reflection Improves Performance
Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and Bradley Staats: “Knowledge plays an important role in the productivity and prosperity of economies, organizations, and individuals. Even so, research on learning has primarily focused on the role of doing (experience) in fostering progress over time. To compare the effectiveness of different sources of learning, the authors take… Continue Reading
Food Security Status of U.S. Households in 2012
Food Security Status of U.S. Households in 2012 Food Security Status of U.S. Households with Children in 2012 How Many People Lived in Food-Insecure Households? Food Insecurity by Household Characteristics Very Low Food Security by Household Characteristics Trends in Prevalence Rates State-Level Prevalence of Food Insecurity (map) 49 Million Americans Go Hungry, Despite So-Called Recovery Map… Continue Reading
Human Rights Watch – Nation Behind Bars
News release: “Far too many US laws violate basic principles of justice by requiring disproportionately severe punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 36-page report, “Nation Behind Bars: A Human Rights Solution,” notes that laws requiring penalties that are far longer than necessary to meet the purposes of punishment have given the United… Continue Reading
Snapchat Settles FTC Charges That Promises of Disappearing Messages Were False
News release: “Snapchat, the developer of a popular mobile messaging app, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers with promises about the disappearing nature of messages sent through the service. The FTC case also alleged that the company deceived consumers over the amount of personal data it collected and the security measures… Continue Reading
Biking to Work Increases 60 Percent Over Last Decade, Census Bureau Reports
“Many U.S. cities are seeing an increase in bicycle commuters, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today. Nationwide, the number of people who traveled to work by bike increased roughly 60 percent over the last decade, from about 488,000 in 2000 to about 786,000 during the 2008-2012 period. This is the largest percentage increase of… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: InfoTech Policies -Best Practices, Management Controls, NASA
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Agencies Need to Establish and Implement Incremental Development Policies, GAO-14-361: Published: May 1, 2014. Publicly Released: May 8, 2014. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Implementing Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve the Management of Investments, GAO-14-596T: Published: May 8, 2014. Publicly Released: May 8, 2014. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: SSA Needs to Address Limitations in Management Controls and Human Capital Planning to Support… Continue Reading
China and International Law in Cyberspace
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Staff Report. May 6, 2014. China and International Law in Cyberspace by Kimberly Hsu, Policy Analyst, Security and Foreign Affairs with Craig Murray, Senior Policy Analyst, Security and Foreign Affairs “The Chinese government states it intends to work with the “international community to promote the building of a peaceful, secure, open, and cooperative cyberspace.”… Continue Reading
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65.9 percent of 2013 high school graduates enrolled in college (05/08/2014) Compensation costs for private industry workers up 1.7 percent in year ending March 2014 (05/07/2014) Participation rate, employment–population ratio, and unemployment rate in April 2014 (05/06/2014) Payroll employment up 288,000 in April 2014 (05/05/2014) Gross job gains from opening and expanding establishments were 7.0 million in Q3 2013 (05/02/2014)… Continue Reading
