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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
Photo: swanksalot, Creative Commons, Flickr
The Washington Post recently published an article, later picked up by MSNBC, on the fact that health insurance companies are now targeting patient’s electronic prescription records as a quick, easy and relatively inexpensive way to evaluate a person’s insurability. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 August 2008 )
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Written by Eben Esterhuizen
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
While the twentieth century had the arms race, the competition in this century will be a brains race, and it looks like America is falling behind.
"Although the United States continues to possess the world's strongest science and engineering enterprise, its position is jeopardized both by evolving weakness at home and by growing strength abroad," said a recent National Academy of Sciences report.
The report found that U.S. funding of "research in most physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering has declined or remained flat — in real purchasing power — for several decades." The report also argued that leadership in high-energy physics, a U.S. franchise since the Manhattan Project built the atomic bomb, is shifting overseas.
Beginning in 2007, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth will be outside the USA for the first time in decades. Similarly, U.S. scientists complain that fusion reactor tests and underground physics labs needed to stay ahead in the most cutting-edge areas are all overseas. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 August 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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One of the ongoing problems of nuclear energy is that pressurized light water reactors, or PWRs, and boiling water reactors (BWRs) require copious amounts of water to remove excess heat from the steam system in order to condense the steam.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 August 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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Colorado's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission didn’t want to hear from her, but Nurse Cathy Behr, who works at the Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado, had her day in court anyway. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 August 2008 )
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Written by Jeanne Roberts
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
Photo: *the get up kid*, Creative Commons, Flickr
On December 16, 2007, Minneapolis police – acting on an informant’s tip – raided three local homes searching for gang members, guns and drugs. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 03 August 2008 )
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