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The article deals with the impact of social inequality on the trends concerning the mobility of U.S. workers in 2011.

The article discusses the efforts of a team of scientists lead by Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature to organize and clean up 1.6 billion temperature readings from two centuries and nearly 40,000 land-based locations from around the world.

This article discusses a forecast that the world's population will reach seven billion in 2012.

The article examines the job-generating reputation of U.S. small businesses based on an analysis by the Small Business Administration on how small is a small business.

The article offers information on an experiment done by Reno, Nevada-based software engineer Jesse Anderson in which he segmented the works of English poet William Shakespeare into small parts and then assigned these to millions of computer programs called virtual monkeys that run in parallel.

The article discusses two studies concerning the dangers of urban cycling such as one which focuses on the impact of biking on lung health.

This section offers news briefs related to sports as of September 2011 including one on the resignation of Dan Beebe as commissioner of the U.S. Big 12 Conference, one on the outstanding performance of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher Clayton Kershaw in the 2011 season, and one on the game at the Rugby World Cup between Samoa and Fiji.

The article offers information on the semi-final games at the U.S. open in September 2011 such as one which will feature professional athletes Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki.

The article focuses on the view of several security analysts in the U.S. concerning the threat posed by al Qaeda militants to the national security of the U.S. during the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

This section offers sports-related news briefs including tennis player Roger Federer's 30th consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal, remarks from University of Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly on criticisms he has received for his sideline behavior, and postponement of the Michigan-Western Michigan football match due to severe thunderstorms.

The article reports on limitation of facial recognition software in identifying participants in riots in Great Britain despite claims that technology is highly accurate in controlled settings.

The article reports that meteorologists have few precedents to predict the damage that Hurricane Irene was likely to inflict in the U.S., wherein only six storms were identified by University of Colorado's Roger Pielke Jr. that have hit the U.S. with similar characteristics to Irene since 1900.

The article explores the contributions of technologies used in mathematics-related tasks to the mistakes committed that affected several controversial economic issues in 2011 such as the decreased debt rating of the U.S. and the second quarter outcomes of the British construction sector.

The article examines the difficulty of estimating the exact value of all stocks worldwide, which ranges from about 30 trillion U.S. dollars to 55 trillion U.S. dollars.

The article discusses the challenge faced by international humanitarian organizations concerning the declaration of famine in Somalia due to the fear that donors may restrict or limit the funds that they offer to the people in the country in 2011.

The article discusses how the statistical website Baseball-Reference has been counting up to the 200,000th game in Major League Baseball, a milestone which is expected to be reached on September 24, 2011.

The article focuses on practice of scientists in the field of geodesy of accurately measuring mountains, which occasionally becomes a source of disputes between governments including one on the height of Mount Everest.

The article reports on the vulnerability of cellphone users to hacking due to the insecurity of the passwords chosen by people to protect their messages and the cellphone numbers themselves which can be turned against cellphone owners.

The author discusses the popular interest in numerical patterns saying that math enthusiasts have also observed dates with pleasing numeral properties and that certain numbers are believed to be lucky and unlucky.

The article looks into the total cost of the space shuttle program of the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA).

The article reports on the practice of calculating the monetary value of news coverage both in print and other media based on their public-relations impact.

The article examines the concept of capacity as one of the examples of a measurement whose meaning varies depending on the context, with an emphasis on an order by the U.S. Supreme Court for the state of California to reduce its prison population to 137.5 percent of capacity.

The article discusses the controversy over a plate logo called MyPlate unveiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in June 2011, which replaced the department's iconic food pyramid.

The article reports on the competition between New York City and Orlando, Florida for the title of most-visited city in the U.S.

The article explores the use and potential abuse of the common statistical concept called the median for interpreting brain scans of Alzheimer's disease patients.

The article discusses a voting method adopted by several U.S. cities called instant runoff that can alter election results which caused a dispute among scientists and statisticians.

The article discusses issues related to matching DNA fingerprinting with the art of identification, including the chance of a random false positive and the need to incorporate what statisticians call prior odds.

The article examines the cost and impact of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in April 2011 on the British economy, which ranges from 2.5 billion to 50 billion U.S. dollars.

The article analyzes the credibility of data which claim that women control 80% of spending.

The article examines the statistical difficulty of determining the gay population through the given surveys.

This section offers news briefs related to sports as of April 7, 2011, including one on the number of rookies in the Masters field for 2011, another on the performance of Andy Murray in tennis as of April, and another on the 6-0 standing of the Texas Rangers during its first season.

The article reports on a ruling issued by the U.S. Supreme Court that a lawsuit filed against Matrixx Initiatives Inc. pending in a lower court could proceed as companies cannot only rely on statistical significance when disclosing information to investors.

The article discusses various methods for measuring radioactivity and its biological effects which include becquerels, grays and sieverts for quantifying various aspects of radiation.

The article examines the link between divorce, Internet and other social media in the U.S. and suggests that data on divorce rates in the country do not support the notion that Facebook is not compatible with marriage.

The article presents information on athletes and sports including the threat of Air Canada to withdraw its sponsorship of the National Hockey League (NHL), the decision of nine of the top 10 men tennis players in the ATP World Tour singles ranking to participate in doubles at an event and the schedule of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games.

This section offers news briefs related to sports as of March 9, 2011, including one on the initial public offering by Bogotá Millionaires, another on the performance of John Isner during the Davis Cup in Santiago, Chile, and another on the guesting of Hines Ward of the Pittsburgh Steelers on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."

The article reports on the growing trend of March madness pool in the U.S., which refers to betting contests in offices in sports and other events

The article reports on the challenge faced by pollsters in verifying the reliability of the face-to-face and telephone surveys conducted in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries.

The article explores the reasons behind the information overload hype.

The article reports on an assessment of beef content in fast-food meat, which is prompted by a lawsuit filed against Taco Bell on allegation that it used meat substitute for real beef in its tacos.

The article reports on the use of satellite imagery and computerized scanning in estimating the number of protesters massing on the streets of Cairo, Egypt.

The article explores the difficulty of quantifying the regulatory burden faced by U.S. small businesses based on an analysis of a study released by the Small Business Administration in September 2010.

This article discusses the results of a study on the critical thinking skills of college students in the U.S.

The article reports that individual mental illnesses outnumber the overall prevalence of mental illness in the U.S., according to a survey conducted by Ronald Kessler and colleagues at Harvard Medical School.

This article discusses research which raised questions on the factuality of the widely held assumption that 1-in-4 homes in the U.S. have mortgages higher than the value of the home.

The article reports on the decision of the Arizona state government to stop Medicaid coverage for some organ transplants in an attempt to address a 1 billion U.S. dollar deficit in its healthcare budget for 2011.

The article reports on the alleged diseases being experienced by urban trees in the Netherlands caused by Wi-Fi transmitters.

The article reports on the criticism against interpretation of criminal statistics compiled by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which was used by CQ Press to rank cities in the U.S.

The article focuses on a study, which showed that studies assessing the performance of charter schools are using flawed methodologies.

The article reveals the poor performance of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division of the National Football League in U.S. professional sports.