Mar 01 Pew Study: News Becoming More Personalized, Participatory, Portable By Hari Sreenivasan As you read this blog and watch this video online, you're digesting your news on the third-most-popular news platform: the Internet, a new study shows. For news consumers, the Internet ranks ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and… Continue reading
Feb 25 U.S.-Canadian Economic Ties Weigh In to Climate Change Debate By Judy Woodruff As part of a continuing series of conversations about climate change legislation, Judy Woodruff recently talked with Brad Wall, premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Wall argues that because the U.S. and American economies are "so inextricably linked,… Continue reading
Feb 24 Google Plans Rigorous Appeal of Executives’ Conviction in Italy No one disputes that the Italian video -- posted online in 2006 -- showing a young man with Down syndrome being bullied was despicable. An organization working on behalf of people with Down syndrome complained to Google, which says… Continue reading
Feb 19 Will Google Make us Smarter? Internet Experts Say Yes, but With Caveats In a widely-read 2008 article in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, writer Nicholas Carr asked "Is Google Making us Stupid?" He argued that as people learn to surf the vast amounts of information available online, they are losing the ability… Continue reading
Feb 19 Personalized Genetic Test Offers New Way to Track Cancer By mapping the genetic code of malignant tumors, researchers have developed a new technique to identify and track cancer: a blood test derived from a patient's unique DNA. The finding is the latest in a growing field of… Continue reading
Feb 18 Thursday’s Headlines: U.N. Climate Chief Resigns; Dalai Lama Visits White House Two months after world leaders failed to agree on a legally binding global warming pact at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Yvo de Boer, the top U.N. climate change official, has announced his resignation. De Boer denied to… Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch Reactor Plan Renews Debate on Nuclear Energy President Obama this week announced $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees to help build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, but environmental groups pushed back against the form of alternative energy they called "inherently dangerous." Gwen Ifill talks to both… Continue watching
Feb 16 Haiti Quake Propels Use of Twitter as Disaster-Relief Tool By Larisa Epatko Kate Starbird, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studies the use of Twitter during crises. When she and the other UC researchers heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, all they could do… Continue reading
Feb 12 Olympic Snowboarding Coach on Training Challenges, Technology By Tom Bearden He bears little resemblance to Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy and the cocktail isn’t named after him. This Rob Roy’s day job is building affordable housing projects for senior citizens in Oregon. But that’s not all. He’s also spent the… Continue reading