Entries from February 2008

February 29, 2008

Who’s Minding the Kids?

Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2005, showed that among the 11.3 million children younger than 5 whose mothers were employed, 30 percent were cared for on a regular basis by a grandparent during their mother’s working hours.

February 29, 2008

Celebrate Pi Day

Pi, Greek letter (π), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535… Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th.
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February 28, 2008

Search Engine to mine UN Data

http://data.un.org/
Learn more about UN here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un

February 26, 2008

U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious affiliation of the American public and explores the shifts taking place in the U.S. religious landscape. Based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans age 18 and older, the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey finds that religious affiliation in the [...]

February 25, 2008

Flu (Influenza) - CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/
It’s a bad flu season, so check here for weekly flu activity reports, ways to prevent flu, symptoms and treatment, and advice for parents, schools and childcare providers, employers, etc. [via: http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html]