Andrew Dunn
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A report from the Fawcett society claims a backward step for women in closing the gender pay gap in the UK. See other campaign material on their website for more reports and statistics. To research this topic further. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the legal facts. It also has the sex and power […]
Sandy: Crisis response
Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds. Separate maps for the whole of the USA and NYC are available. They include geographical markers for different types of emergencies. Location tracking, including the current and forecasted paths were provided on the NOAA-National Hurricane Center national weather service. Search the […]
Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 years
To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.archives.gov/nae/visit/gallery.html “To the Brink” is a new exhibit at the National Archives that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It displays previously unseen correspondence between the US and the Soviet Union, and secret White House recordings of President John F Kennedy and his […]
Al Jazeera Archive
http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Free access to video footage released by news service Al Jazeera under various Creative Commons licenses. Featured collections include protests in Gaza, events in Tunisia and the Arab spring protests in Egypt. It includes Arabic materials. See other recommeded free video sites, including historic and public information films on our recent posting for open […]
US Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange: 1956-2005
Free digitized US Treasury Library materials: the Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange, 1956-2005, which list the exchange rates of foreign currencies based on the dollar, are now available on FDsys see here.
Global Gender Gap report 2012
The World Economic Forum has just released this annual report. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings: http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2012
New BFI Library
http://www.bfi.org.uk/node/1125 The BFI Reuben Library has an extensive collection of materials relating to film and television including books, journals, newspaper cuttings and multi-media resources.
Presidential debates
See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.org/ There is a historical section with information on debates from 1858 onwards, in addition to coverage from the main US newspapers. http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=debate-history C-Span also has some coverage and pre and post-debate discussion on its website http://www.c-span.org/Debates/Events/Town-Hall-Presidential-Debate/10737434294-9/ The C-Span video library http://www.c-spanvideo.org/topic/54 has extensive footage […]
Political Union in the EU
A new project launched by LSE and Policy Network http://www.policy-network.net/news/3953/Political-Union-What-is-it-Do-we-need-it-How-could-it-work This will focus on Europe’s emerging political union. Key focuses of interest will be political issues surrounding the Eurozone crisis. The website has an introduction and events listing. This week other EU news included the award of the Nobel Prize. The LSE blog covers this and also […]
Asian Overview report – Social, digital and mobile media
http://wearesocial.sg/blog/2012/10/social-digital-mobile-asia/ Free access from the We are Social Media website to 100 slides of the latest facts and figures from around the region, including select highlights from each of the 24 countries covered. Key facts include: 1. There are now well over 1 billion internet users in Asia 2. At least 811 million of these […]
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