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Distilled Demographics Video Series Distilled Demographics, PRB's new video series, highlights key demographic concepts such as fertility, mortality, and migration. Through these videos, each under 10 minutes, you can learn demography's real-world application and impact. In these videos, Carl Haub, PRB's senior demographer, talks about: Deciphering Population Pyramids Addressing Population Myths The Birth Rate: What It Is and Why It Matters

Interesting site that brings students together to study and do homework. If your student population has access might be an interesting tool to throw out there for collaboration. 

Killing two birds with one stone. Here are some interesting facts about social networking and use among 35-54 yo age group growing by 60% recently according to Forrester. Also, if you are looking for a read-aloud to do with math students, here's a great example to use with them. The topic is social media, the content is proportional reasoning, data analysis, and interpreting real-world data. For example if usage among 35-54 yos has grown by 60% what does that mean among the sample of 4500, what does that mean among the sample of the US population, if previous usage was 15% of that age group, what percentage of that age group now use it? Etc. Good math/science reading is as close as your local USA Today/Yahoo homepage/iGoogle/news RSS

The Nielsen report on internet use and social networking/blogging. Blogging/social networking is still the number one destination online, followed closely by gaming. It's interesting the populations that are growing, and the massive growth of mobile!