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04 Feb 2012


Economist Daniel Sullivan shows that involuntarily job displacement doubled the short-term mortality rates of those displaced
[The Hamilton Project, April 2010]
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News about web 2.0

Memory in Internet’s times

World July 22, 2011

Even our memory, would not be saved from the influences of the web 2.0. It was announced in a new study from Columbia University, according to which the use of Google would have an impact on memory. Search engines are not causing an actual loss of this ability, but rather [...]
Life of families

Democracy at the risk of gag

United Kingdom June 28, 2011

Image Democracy at the risk of gag Obscured websites, removed video, user control. Practices on the agenda of the fragile democracy in countries far away from the Old Continent. However, even those who have made freedom of expression as its own pillar, hide a few skeletons in the closet. This is the case of the Government of [...]
Active ageing

After retirement, it’s time to surf

United Kingdom June 14, 2011

Image After retirement, it’s time to surf "How many friends do you have on Facebook?" classic teenager question. But no surprise if before long it will be turn by grandparents to their grandchildren. In fact, make the UK the first country in the world where the population is able to use Internet is the ambitious project of [...]
Disability, E-accessibility

Disability 2.0

Spain April 06, 2011

Image Disability 2.0 Is Web 2.0 accessible to the disabled? Very little, according to a Discapnet survey which enumerates the difficulties facing Spanish disabled people when they use social networks. The level of accessibility of the eight most popular social networking platforms among the Spanish users was calculated using indicators such as the [...]
Anti discrimination

The eugenics in the era of Internet

E.U. July 31, 2010 - by Francesco Molica

Image The eugenics in the era of Internet When running into the newborn and already much debated service offered by the social network beautifulpeople.net the most malicious people will be certainly tempted to unbury from history books the infamous “Lebensborn”. That is to say the clinics that, under the aegis of the programs of Nazi eugenics, blossomed in the [...]