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Many Young People Would Rather Surf the Web than Drive a Car

By Guest PostApril 5, 2012General, Technologyage, bernie degroat, brandon schoettle, canada, driver, environmental consequences, finland, function, Germany, great britain, information highway, internet users, Israel, Japan, latvia, license, michael sivak, norway, people, poland, societal wealth, south korea, spain, Sweden, switzerland, teenager, the netherlands, traffic injury, travel, united states, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— More young adults today would rather hit the information highway than the open highway, say University of Michigan researchers.

In a new study in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the U-M Transportation Research Institute found that having a higher proportion of Internet users was associated with lower licensure rates among young persons.

And this is just not in the United States; it’s happening in other countries, too. (more…)

UMD Poll: Israelis Wary of Striking Iran Nuclear Facilities

By Guest PostMarch 2, 2012Politicsairstrike, american punishment, Barack Obama, benjamin netanyahu, dahaf institute, hezbollah, iran, Israel, israeli jews, israeli prime minister, israeli public, mitt romney, newt gingrich, nuclear program, nuclear weapons, presidential race, public opinion, ron paul, santorum, shibley telhami, university of maryland, us president, Washington

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – The Israeli public is wary of launching airstrikes aimed at disrupting Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons, reports a new public opinion poll by researchers at the University of Maryland.

Only 19 of percent of all Israelis favored a go-it-alone strike by Israel, while 42 percent supported a strike only with U.S. backing, and 34 percent opposed any strike. Survey findings for Israeli Jews closely paralleled the results for the entire population of the nation. (more…)

Scientists Discover a Climate Change Warning Deep Under The Dead Sea

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2011Environment, Scienceadi torfstein, africa, basin, biblical overthrow, california, climate change, climate projections, dead sea, dead sea level, drilling deep, earthquakes, egypt, emi ito, environmental history, future mideast conflicts, Germany, human development, Israel, Japan, jordan, jordan river, lakebed cores, mideast, mideast cave deposits, migration of early humans, mordechai stein, muddy sediment, natural phenomena, near east politics, palestinian authority, salt, salty waters, san andreas fault, sea, sea level, seismic risks, short on water, steven goldstein, stone age people, syria, united nations, united states, volatile region, walls of jericho, war against israel, warm period, zvi ben avraham

*University of Minnesota professor is part of international team that predicts the volatile region’s water may once again vanish*

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — An international team of scientists drilling deep under the bed of the Dead Sea has found evidence that the sea may have dried up during a past warm period similar to predicted scenarios for climate change in coming decades. Emi Ito, professor of earth sciences in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering, is a research team member. (more…)

When Plants Go Polyploid

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2011Nature, Scienceanimal evolution, bananas, chromosomes, coffee, evolutionary biology, evolutionary gamble, genetic information, genome duplication, Israel, itay mayrose, karen magnuson ford, michael barker, microscope, peanuts, plant genomes, plant lineages, polyploid lineages, polyploidy, potatoes, sarah sally otto, shing h zhan, tel aviv university, tobacco

*Plant lineages with multiple copies of their genetic information face higher extinction rates than their relatives, researchers report in Science magazine.*

While duplication of hereditary information is a relatively rare event in animal evolution, it is common in plants. Potatoes, coffee, bananas, peanuts, tobacco, wheat, oats and strawberries, to name but a few, all carry multiple copies of their genetic material, in a condition called polyploidy.

In contrast, most animals including humans are diploid, meaning an individual carries only two copies of each chromosome, the carriers of genetic information, one from each parent. (more…)

Facebook Users in Argentina Spend 9 Hours a Month on Site, Second Only to Israel in User Engagement

By Guest PostJune 9, 2011Technologyalejandro fishman, Argentina, bernardita valencia, Comscore, comscore media metrix, demographic analysis, Facebook, Google, growing digital industry, iab argentina, internet users, Israel, microsoft sites, online population, university of palermo

*comScore to Host Complimentary Webinar “The State of the Internet in Argentina” on June 14*

Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 9, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on Internet usage in Argentina from its online audience measurement and media planning solution comScore Media Metrix. The study found that Microsoft Sites led all web properties in audience size in April reaching more than 95 percent of the online population, while visitors averaged the most time on Facebook.com at 8.8 hours per visitor during the month. These findings and others will be presented via a live webinar, The State of the Internet in Argentina, on June 14. For more information and to register, please visit: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/698116824 (more…)

Trojan Horse for Russian Defense Industry

By PravdaJanuary 4, 2011Weaponsamerican, antiaircraft guns, baghdad, black sea, cruising endurance, defense deals, drones, f 16 fighters, france, french weaponry, georgia, innovative technologies, Israel, konstantin sivkov, latin america, military hardware, mistral, mistral helicopter carriers, russia, russian navy, state of the art combat ships, trojan horse, united states, Venezuela, vessel

Russia has finally decided to purchase two Mistral helicopter carriers from France in the total amount of 1.37 billion euros. It is not the first time when Russia concludes defense deals with France. However, the Mistral deal is the largest one in Russia’s recent history when Russia purchased military hardware from a foreign state. (more…)

Fossilised Tooth Changes Human History?

By PravdaJanuary 2, 2011Scienceacheulo yabrudian cultural complex, avi gopher, aycc, cave, deciduous teeth, fossilised teeth, homo sapiens, human being, human evolution, Israel, israeli team, lower paleolithic, middle pleistocene, new evidence, qesem cave, university of tel aviv

A research article presented by an Israeli team has unearthed new evidence on the history of the human being – namely that Homo sapiens may be far, far older than we imagined. A research team from the University of Tel Aviv has discovered fossilised teeth 400,000 years old. (more…)

Russia Has Most Engaged Social Networking Audience Worldwide

By Guest PostOctober 20, 2010TechnologyComscore, comscore media metrix, dst, Facebook, internet in russia, internet usage, Israel, mail, mike read, moscow, odnoklassniki, online video landscape, rosbusinessconsulting, ru, russia, russian federation, russian internet audience, russian population, social networkers, social networking site, turkey, vkontakte, web users, yandex

*Yandex Reached Nearly 80 Percent of Russian Internet Audience in August 2010*

London, U.K., 20th October, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of internet usage in Russia based on August 2010 data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The study revealed that Russians are the heaviest social networkers worldwide in terms of time spent per user and that Yandex is the leading property in the Russian Federation. (more…)

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