In the recent blog posting by Laurie on drunk driving fatalities Steve made a great point about drunk driving rates versus totals. The map we made showed which counties in the USA had the highest total drunk driving fatalities. Steve brought up the point that the map is skewed by population. The more [...]
Continue Reading →If you’ve been following the immigration debate, perhaps you’ve heard of a report called The INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants. Numerous bloggers have been using its startling statistics to add more fuel to the already emotionally heated discussion. For example, it claims that 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for [...]
Continue Reading →What a week in the news…Paris goes back to jail. It’s certainly a story that has people riled up, engaged and talking. Should Paris go back to jail? Is 45 days an unreasonable sentence? Should she have dressed up for her court appearance? How is she spending her time in jail? What is that medical [...]
Continue Reading →On Thursday, The New York Times ran an article, “Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells,†which reported that scientists in Japan and the United States, working with mice, had discovered a way to make cells equivalent to embryonic stem cells without having to create or destroy embryos. This news came at [...]
Continue Reading →The recent news on the young lawyer from Atlanta* who managed to globe trek around the world with a rare, drug-resistant form of Tuberculosis was an eyeopener for many, including myself. I always thought that in the U.S., TB was one of those “diseases from the past” and a problem only for the developing and [...]
Continue Reading →With the official launch of GeoCommons at Where 2.0 last week, along with some of the recent buzz surrounding the OGC’s involvement in the future of KML, I thought it would be prudent to outline some of FortiusOne’s thoughts and concerns on some of these topics.
Specifically, the use (or lack thereof) of structured [...]
Continue Reading →The Australian newspaper “The Age” lead with “Putin threatens to point missiles at Europe“. Several other international media outlets have led with less dire stories concerning a face off at the G8 summit between the USA and Russia. At the core of the debate is a plan by the US to place a missile [...]
Continue Reading →The Washington Post had a headline article, “Backers of the Immigration Bill More Optimistic“, about the increasingly heated debate on immigration. The optimism for the bill is based on the results of a recent Washington Post – ABC News poll on American’s opinions on the bill. Specifically the poll asked the question “Would you [...]
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