Political change in the digital age: The fragility and promise of online organizing
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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Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers
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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Effect of wolf predation and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands
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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Internet filtering and circumvention tool usage report
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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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics: Good jobs now and for the future
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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Arousal increases social transmission of information
2011 study by the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in Psychological Science on the underlying factors that drive people to share news
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The road ahead: Unanalyzed evidence in sexual assault cases
2011 report by the National Institute of Justice on neglected evidence problems in sexual assault cases nationwide.
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Fast food restaurants, food stores and health
2011 study in Archives of Internal Medicine on links between proximity to certain types of foods and health outcomes.
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Information needs of communities: The changing media landscape in a broadband age
2011 FCC report on the changing information environment in the 21st century and the challenges for both the press and democracy.
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United Nations IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change
U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report presenting the latest consensus science on temperature rise, its causes and future implications
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