The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal reflects on his sequence of Web-based research for an online article, “The Many Failures and Few Successes of Zany Iceberg Towing Schemes.”
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2010 report by the Department of Health and Human Services on the cognitive development and physical health outcomes of Head Start students.
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2011 report by the Pew Research Center compared data from the Survey of Income Program and Participation (SIPP) in 2005 and 2009.
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2007 study by the Dubai School of Government’s Wolfensohn Center for Development on deep jobless problems among young adults in Syria.
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2011 report by the Department of Interior based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy.
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2010 paper by the Berkman Center at Harvard University on frameworks for evaluating activism in the Internet age, particularly in repressive environments.
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2011 World Bank study on the effects of globalization pressures on wages and employment opportunities for American workers between 1982 and 2002.
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2011 study in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on threats to the caribou population of Alberta’s oil sands region.
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2010 report by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on global usage of Web-based tools designed to circumvent Internet content filtering.
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2011 report by the U.S. Department of Commerce on the current state of the science, technology, engineering and math-based job industries.
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