Cost Savings From Health IT: Priceless
The miracle berry’s astounding ability to turn the sour sweet makes it a party favorite, but its properties may help dieters and cancer patients, too.
Are Cities Like Lehman Brothers or AIG?
Things are tough all over, but the National League of Cities suggests when improvement comes, cities may be among the last to know.
Dengue Fever Slips Across the Border
In a less remarked-upon aspect of climate change, tropical diseases like dengue fever — once restricted to warmer or moister climes — are infiltrating the United States.
Job Counting Offers New Battlefield for Partisans
The administration's imperfect tally of stimulus-created jobs sculpts new vistas for the punditocracy to survey.
Some Presumed ‘Opt-Outers’ May Spite Themselves
A public option for U.S. health care has been refashioned as a decision for individual states. Might some states most in need spurn the offer?
Eyes Wide Open But Algorithms Wide Shut?
Adobe's laudable push for open government butts up against the difficulty that machines have sussing out what's in its products.
Government That Listens First, Then Acts?
The Obama administration's tech czar wants a Silicon Valley value transplanted to the Beltway: customer experience design.
Justifying What You Know Can’t Be True
Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
Monster Mashups Shine Light on Government
The gushing effluvia of spreadsheets and thick reports that flow from government are dissected, reconstituted and displayed by a dedicated band of coders.
Fill Out Your Census Form in Red or Blue Ink
So, the rather nerdy constitutional pursuit of counting everybody in the country once a decade has become a political issue like everything else.