After last week’s announcement by Ben Bernanke that the recession was essentially over, I think many of us probably breathed a sigh of relief. Here’s a man responsible for many of the programs which have been so hotly contested, programs which have funneled billions of dollars to banks who may or may not have used [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
Tagged with: analysis, ben bernanke, Dailyfinance.com, economy, finance, growth, jobs, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobe Prize, recession, recovery, stimulus, Unemployment, US
In a new analysis conducted by The Nature Conservancy, scientists predict that the states that will experience the greatest impacts of rising temperatures are not entirely coastal, as most generally assume. Instead, states like Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska will apparently see the biggest increase in overall temperatures, an unexpected consequence that could be potentially disastrous [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on August 28th, 2009 @ 1:02 pm
Tagged with: agriculture, analysis, climate change, economy, farming, global warming, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, President Obama, Waxman-Markey Act
Though there is little doubt that the internet is fundamentally changing the ways that news is produced, distributed and consumed, how exactly is this revolution being shaped? As traditional media and online upstarts increasingly inhabit the same realms, questions arise over who is breaking the highest profile stories, how these stories are being covered by [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News, Technology on August 6th, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
Tagged with: analysis, Berkman Center, media, Media Cloud, News, research, researchers
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.