Category: Politics

Gallup Poll Finds Confidence In TV News Has Hit A New Low

Confidence in television news has hit a new low, a new Gallup poll reported Tuesday.

The polling firm does an annual survey of the confidence that Americans have in their biggest institutions. Gallup noted that its survey took place before CNN and Fox Newsbotched the Supreme Court's ruling on President Obama's health care law, presumably as a way to emphasize just how little faith people seem to have in their newscasts.

Just 21% of adults said they had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in TV news. That's down a whopping 25% from 1993, when Gallup began the poll:

gallup

 

Gallup Poll Finds Confidence In TV News Has Hit A New Low

2

A Global Perspective on Happiness and Fertility

The literature on fertility and happiness has neglected comparative analysis. we investigate the fertility/happiness association using data from the world values Surveys for 86 countries. we fnd that, globally, happiness decreases with the number of children. this association, however, is strongly modifed by individual and contextual factors. most importantly, we find that the association between happiness and fertility evolves from negative to neutral to positive above age 40, and is strongest among those who are likely to beneft most from upward intergenerational transfers. in addition, analyses by welfare regime show that the negative fertility/ happiness association for younger adults is weakest in countries with high public support for families, and the positive association above age 40 is strongest in countries where old-age support depends mostly on the family. overall these results suggest that children are a long-term investment in well-being, and highlight the importance of the life-cycle stage and contextual factors in explaining the happiness/fertility association.

A Global Perspective on Happiness and Fertility

0

Race To The Whitehouse (The Game)

We recommend the following minimum configuration:

 

PC Windows XP / VISTA / 7 / 8 ● 1.6 GHz Processor or higher ● 2 Gb RAM ● 2 Gb Hard Drive Space ● DirectX 9.0 or higher 

MACOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher ● 1.6 Ghz Processor or higher ● 2 Gb RAM ● 2 Gb Hard Drive space ● Intel Processor 

Age recommendation: 10 years old or higher (10+)

Race To The Whitehouse (The Game)

0

Data Storage of Tomorrow: Ferroelectricity On the Nanoscale

Promising news for those who relish the prospects of a one-inch chip storing multiple terabytes of data, some clarity has been brought to the here-to-fore confusing physics of ferroelectric nanomaterials. A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has provided the first atomic-scale insights into the ferroelectric properties of nanocrystals. This information will be critical for development of the next generation of nonvolatile data storage devices.

Data Storage of Tomorrow: Ferroelectricity On the Nanoscale

0

North Carolina agencies investigating Duke Energy CEO shuffle

HOUSTON (Reuters) - North Carolina officials late Friday launched two investigations into the surprising move by Duke Energy Corp directors to replace former Progress Energy Chief Executive Bill Johnson with Duke CEO Jim Rogers, just a day after a deal to create the largest U.S. utility company was finalized.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission, which approved Duke's $18 billion buyout of Progress late last week, ordered Rogers to appear at a hearing Tuesday to answer questions on the timing of the decision to replace Johnson, the commission said in a two-page order.

North Carolina agencies investigating Duke Energy CEO shuffle

0

Mystery Wave in Milky Way Galaxy Suggests Recent Crash

"We have found evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago," said Larry Widrow, a professor at Queen’s University in Canada. "We clearly observe unexpected differences in the Milky Way’s stellar distribution above and below the Galaxy's midplane that have the appearance of a vertical wave — something that nobody has seen before."

Mystery Wave in Milky Way Galaxy Suggests Recent Crash

0

Up ↑