Sandy Reminds About Frailty of Electric Grid
With eight million customers or so without electrical power today on the United States’ East Coast, it’s worth…
Put Your Fingerprints on This Bay Area Event
If you’ve been reading Sue Russell’s series of stories on wrongful convictions – and you live in the…
The Hardest Conversation, Part 2
Late-stage cancer patients often don’t understand that chemotherapy isn’t a cure but a palliative, as Kevin Charles Redmon…
Could Climate Change be the Epitome of Partisanship?
Why the environment has been so conspicuously absent from this year's debates
The Smart Money Getting Smarter
Venture capitalists have plunked $15 million into Udacity, the free online university that Kevin Charles Redmon told us…
Vibrating Mice Shake Up the Fight Against Diabetes
In a case of genuine good vibrations, a daily shake-up may help stave off diabetes in over-eating young…
Clearer Vision on the ‘Eyeball-to-Eyeball’ Cuban Missile Crisis
How close the U.S. and USSR came to mutually assured destruction (a term not then in vogue) during…
Protest. Arrest. Dismiss. Repeat
It’s as much ritual as protest, and both sides know the drill cold. Before the test launch of…
Could China’s Communist Party Have Jumped the Shark at Wenzhou?
The current issue of The New Yorker features a lengthy look at China’s Wenzhou train disaster of last…
Citizen Scientists Look for Bees Behaving Badly
The idea of having lots of average people collect data for Certified Important Research TM is a hot…