Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Emerging Technology
Source: Technology Review
10 Emerging Technologies
“Of the numerous technologies now in gestation at companies and universities, we have chosen 10 that we think will make particularly big splashes. They range from bacterial factories to silicon photonics to quantum wires­­–and any one of them could change your world.”
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Academia–Salaries
Source: American Association of University Professors
Inequities Persist for Women and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession 2004-05
“Following the pattern of recent years, this annual report first examines the economic situation of full-time faculty at different types of institutions, after which it considers longer-term trends affecting higher education and faculty status. Highlights include a comparison of the salaries of university and college presidents to those of faculty and a discussion of probably the single most significant trend for higher education faculty: the growing predominance of contingent positions. For the first time, this year’s report touches on the pay of contingent professors relative to that of tenure-track faculty, an issue on which sufficient data unfortunately do not yet exist. The report concludes with a matter of abiding concern: the question whether women faculty are making progress toward equity with men.” (via DocuTicker)
Full Report (PDF; 215 KB)
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Nutrition
Source: USDA
New Web Site, MyPyramid.gov
Interactive food guidance system. More info in this news release and this article.
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Business–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: DiversityInc
Just Released, The Top 50 Companies for Diversity (reg. req., free trial avail.)
Methodology and specialty lists available.
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Earthquakes–History
Maps
Source: USGS
USGS Produces New Map Showing Detailed Ground Shaking in Great San Francisco Old Maps, even Old Cemeteries, Provide New Clues for Modern Intensity Tool
“The catastrophic damage resulting from the 1906 earthquake proved to be the springboard for a century of advances in the understanding and science of earthquakes. Now the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has employed one of its most sophisticated modern tools to visually show in detail for the first time the intensity of shaking in San Francisco and the extraordinarily high intensity of shaking in communities like Santa Rosa from that earthquake. The 1906 damage patterns are displayed graphically as a ShakeMap, posted on the web at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1135/ and accompanied by a report analyzing the basis for the recent findings, and lessons for future great California earthquakes that can be inferred from the new data.”

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