While much of the country is hanging heavily in the blue and purple parts of the current temperature map, Wunderground posted this interesting infographic on winter storms. Illustrator and artist Jerimiah Brown created the graphic. Click here to see it big at Visual.ly.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, global leaders will discuss how best to harness the power of transformational advances in business, society, and technology to maximize economic growth. One of the most fundamental questions that must be addressed this year is how to effectively finance the physical infrastructure necessary to support that growth.
As dean of Georgetown's recently launched McCourt School of Public Policy, I believe there is no better time than now to be a public policy scholar, educator or student.
The last several years have brought with them a deluge of data from sensors, satellites, cell phones, and digitized text that was unimaginable even 20 years ago. With it, the data brings amazing opportunities for public policy research on some of the world's most pressing challenges.
The percentage of people in Mississippi aged 18 or greater who report they have been told they have diabetes is 11.3 percent, according to the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey in 2010.
In the Mississippi Delta, the problem is expounded by issues such as obesity, inactivity, familial history and poverty. In Sunflower County, 13.8 percent of the population has been diagnosed with diabetes, with an estimated one-third of the population currently unaware they may have the disease.
Your heart expends half a joule of energy every time it beats. That's the same amount of juice you'd need to lift an apple 1.6 feet off the ground.
Any business is a risky endeavor with an uncertain life expectancy. It has been, and should remain, a driver of innovation, a creator of wealth, a harbinger of economic freedom. The core mission of a profit-driven enterprise is not to fulfill some philanthropic duty. But neither is it solely to maximize short-term shareholder value.
SHANNON, Ireland, January 22, 2014 -- GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced it received an award for "Americas Deal of the Year" from Airline Economics for its participation in the 2013 AABS Limited transaction.
