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Fact Sheets: Public Views About Science

short readsNov 10, 2009

The Age of Tweets

The median age of a Twitter user is 31.
short readsNov 10, 2009

The Remarrying Kind

About one-in-ten ever-married adults in Arkansas and Oklahoma have had three or more spouses.
short readsNov 10, 2009

Veterans Day

While Americans across the country honor the nation’s veterans today, most do not think the government gives enough support to soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
reportNov 9, 2009

The Army Base Massacre Dominates the Week

The U.S. unemployment rate jumped, the Afghan runoff election was cancelled and the House of Representatives passed a health care bill last week. But those stories all took a back seat to coverage of the killing spree at Fort Hood Texas, which quickly became a story about Islam and possibly, terrorism.
reportNov 9, 2009

Religious Landscape Survey Data Release

Data files from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, including interviews with a representative sample of more than 35,000 U.S. adults, are now available to the public for further study and analysis.
reportNov 8, 2009

Tell the FDA the whole story, please

The FDA should hear about the reality of the information marketplace, which is increasingly mobile and social, not about the past failings of consumers to check the source and date of health information online.
presentationNov 6, 2009

Informatics for Consumer Health: Privacy, Security and Confidentiality

As part of a panel on privacy, security, and confidentiality, Susannah Fox discussed the “shadow economy” of health data that has sprung up, with all the dangers and opportunities of an unregulated market.
reportNov 5, 2009

Public Divided Over Afghan Troop Requests, But Still Sees Rationale for War
reportNov 5, 2009

Swine Flu Interest Outpaces Coverage

Summary of Findings For the second week in a row, Americans followed news about the swine flu and its vaccine more closely than any other news story – with public interest outpacing the amount of national media coverage devoted to the story. About three-in-ten (29%) name reports about the fast-spreading flu and its vaccine as […]
reportNov 5, 2009

Bloggers Outraged at a Horrific Assault

A diverse mix of stories—from war policy to a scientific breakthrough—topped the news agenda in the blogosphere last week. But the dominant topic was a heinous crime that generated much more attention online than in the traditional press. On Twitter, the top subject was a very different kind of crime story.