An Iodine Chaser
In the capricious world of nuclear waste, a scientist focuses on promising technologies for the capture and storage of the maddeningly elusive iodine-129.
Browsing Tag
September-October 2009
18 posts
Breaking the Minority Attorney Drought
Why it's time to minimize use of the LSAT in law school admissions.
The Panhandle Paradox
Are The St. Joe Company's development plans for huge swaths of timberland in northwest Florida an environmentally sensitive 'New Ruralism' or a serious threat to irreplaceable ecosystems? Perhaps both.
Mental Problems
New book Healing the Broken Mind by Timothy Kelly demonstrates how to begin fixing America's utterly failed mental health care system.
Playing Chicken With Antibiotic Resistance
The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as 'Big Chicken' — squawk.
The Change I Almost Couldn’t Believe In
If the politicians in a sharp-elbowed place like Houston can work across party lines, why can't yours?
Karl Marx and American Health Care
As the Germans and French have shown, a 'public option' for health insurance needn't give government a socialistic monopoly.
The Ecstasy and the Agony
MDMA holds promise as part of a therapy that helps post-traumatic stress patients confront and extinguish their fears. But ecstasy's recreational reputation has slowed research.