Nearly everyone on the list is striving to reinvent her business. Meet a group of executives who don’t sit still. “The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman’s business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business,… Continue Reading
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Pew – Partisans Dug in on Budget, Health Care Impasse
“The national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Oct. 3-6 among 1,000 adults, finds 44% say Republican leaders should give ground on their demand that any budget deal include cuts or delays to the 2010 health care law. Nearly as many (42%) say it is Obama who should give ground, by agreeing to changes… Continue Reading
Guardian – Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users’ online anonymity
Secret servers and a privileged position on the internet’s backbone used to identify users and attack target computers, by Bruce Schneier, October 4, 2013. “The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA‘s application vulnerabilities branch, which is part of… Continue Reading
Differentials in the Concentration in the Level of Health Expenditures across Population Subgroups in the U.S.
STATISTICAL BRIEF #421: Differentials in the Concentration in the Level of Health Expenditures across Population Subgroups in the U.S., 2010. Steven B. Cohen PhD and Namrata Uberoi, MPH- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2013 ‘In 2010, the top 1 percent ranked by their health care expenses accounted for 21.4 percent of total health care… Continue Reading
Center for Pet Safety 2013 Harness Crashworthiness Study Summary Report
Lindsey A. Wolko, Center for Pet Safety: “In 2013 the Center for Pet Safety (CPS) and Subaru of America formed a partnership to further the CPS 2011 Harness Crashworthiness Pilot Study (size: Large) and evaluate the overall performance of harness products claiming “testing”, “crash testing” or “crash protection”. A combined testing approach including quasi-static preliminary… Continue Reading
Disconnect Search Lets Users Search Privately on Google, Bing, and Yahoo
News release: “Disconnect, a leading developer of popular consumer privacy and security software, today launched its newest service: Disconnect Search (https://www.disconnect.me/search). Developed by an ex-NSA engineer and three ex-Google engineers over the last year, Disconnect Search allows users to easily keep searches private without having to change their behavior. Unlike other private search solutions, Disconnect… Continue Reading
The future of the world’s mobile students to 2024
“International education remains a priority for individuals who want to broaden their outlooks, institutions that want to expand their offerings and resources as well as governments that want to increase their national competitiveness and human capital. As such, the global higher education sector has shown strong, sustained growth in past decades despite intermittent economic uncertainty… Continue Reading
Day 8: Daily Dings to our Health and Environment from the GOP’s government shutdown
Natural Resources Defense Council Staff Blog: “As the government shutdown enters its second week with no end in sight, the stalemate continues to erode our health, safety, the environment and our economy. Just as the effects of a slow-acting toxin are not apparent at first, the shutdown’s impacts may not yet be fully evident, but… Continue Reading
Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence
“In 2010, more than 105,000 people were injured or killed in the United States as the result of a firearm-related incident. Recent, highly publicized, tragic mass shootings in Newtown, CT; Aurora, CO; Oak Creek, WI; and Tucson, AZ, have sharpened the American public’s interest in protecting our children and communities from the harmful effects of… Continue Reading
Widening disparities for males and females in US county life expectancy, 1985–2010
Left behind: widening disparities for males and females in US county life expectancy, 1985–2010. Haidong Wang, Austin E Schumacher, Carly E Levitz, Ali H Mokdad and Christopher JL Murray. Population Health Metrics 2013, 11:8 “Female life expectancy in the United States increased from 78.0 years in 1985 to 80.9 years in 2010, while male life expectancy increased from 71.0 years in 1985 to… Continue Reading
WalletHub Shutdown Report: Most & Least Affected States
“Believe or not, but hundreds of thousands of federal employees missing work may prove to be just the beginning of the 2013 government shutdown story. Not only will the economy incur exponentially more damage the longer the shutdown lasts, but as logistical limitations mount and already-appropriated funds run dry, the personal stories of hardship and… Continue Reading
Freedom on the Net 2013
“Freedom on the Net 2013 is the fourth report in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 60 countries that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. Over 60 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching laws and practices… Continue Reading
