Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss. Nature Climate Change (2013). doi:10.1038/nclimate1887. “Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions in range size and abundance, especially amongst endemic species. However, little is known about how mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions… Continue Reading
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Commentary on Google's upcoming release of new browser engine
The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink, by Vijith Assar. The New Yorker, May 11, 2013 “On April 3rd, just a hair shy of four and a half years after Google unveiled its Web browser, Chromenow the most popular desktop browser in the world by some countsGoogle announced that future versions of it will… Continue Reading
Annual Energy Outlook 2013
Annual Energy Outlook 2013: “The projections in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2012) focus on the factors that shape the U.S. energy system over the long term. Under the assumption that current laws and regulations remain unchanged throughout the projections, the AEO2013 Reference case provides the basis for examination and… Continue Reading
Declining Migration Within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
Declining Migration Within the US: The Role of the Labor Market, Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail Wozniak. April 2013, Finance and Economics Discussion Series – Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. “We examine explanations for the secular decline in interstate migration since the 1980s. After showing… Continue Reading
Unintended Consequences of School Accountability Policies
“Accountability policies linked to school performance may result in unintended consequences, such as inducing schools to engage in strategic classification of certain students to improve overall scores rather than make genuine improvements to the quality of education. This gaming of the system by schools in an influential model program is revealed in new analysis by… Continue Reading
GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Study Requests
“Access to the underlying (patient level) data that are collected in clinical trials provides opportunities to conduct further research that can help advance medical science or improve patient care. This helps ensure the data provided by research participants are used to maximum effect in the creation of knowledge and understanding. Researchers can use this site… Continue Reading
Chairman Bernake Speech – Monitoring the Financial System
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois – May 10, 2013 – Monitoring the Financial System “The step-up in our monitoring is motivated importantly by a shift in financial regulation and supervision toward a more macroprudential, or systemic,… Continue Reading
Report – Declining Medicine Use and Costs: For Better or Worse?
Declining Medicine Use and Costs: For Better or Worse? A Review of the Use of Medicines in the United States in 2012. IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, May 2013. “In 2012, both the per capita use and cost of medicines declined. The cost curve for medicines if not for other elements of the U.S.… Continue Reading
Investigative report – chemicals from personal care products and cancer
Did my wife’s cosmetics give her breast cancer? Inside a regulatory disaster zone by John Wasik – Washington Monthly, May 6, 2013. “The European Union bans nearly 1,400 chemicals from personal care products because they are carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction. But in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration entrusts safety regulation… Continue Reading
FOIA Request to DOJ Yields Expansively Redacted Response
ABCNews: “The Department of Justice complied with the letter of the law and responded to a Freedom of Information Act request from the ACLU seeking insight into the Obama Administrations policy on intercepting text messages from cell phones. But — it didnt release any actual information. Or even any words or letters. As one Reddit… Continue Reading
NPR – Edward Tufte Wants You to See Better
NPR Interview: “Data scientist Edward Tufte (dubbed the “Galileo of graphics” by BusinessWeek) pioneered the field of data visualization. Tufte discusses what he calls “forever knowledge,” and his latest projects: sculpting Richard Feynman’s diagrams, and helping people “see without words.” Continue Reading
Study – Class of 2013 faces dim job prospects and depressed wages
“The Great Recession and its aftermath have decimated job prospects and earnings for young workers, a new EPI briefing paper shows. In The Class of 2013: Young graduates still face dim job prospects, Heidi Shierholz, Natalie Sabadish and Nicholas Finio find that for the fifth consecutive year, new graduates will enter a profoundly weak labor… Continue Reading
