Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Healthcare: Japan's not just about trusty automobiles
This Newsweek article opens by stating that Japan is at the top of every comparative ranking in terms of quality, coverage and cost. Food for thought as we struggle with our expensive, bloated, inadequate and therefore deadly system:
"Japan produces ... high-quality care at bargain-basement prices. The aging nation spends about $3,500 per person on health care each year; America burns through $7,400 per person and still leaves millions without coverage."
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Riding with strangers after riding a 5-year post-Katrina wave
Ready...set...screenplay!
This is pretty tragic. Eastwood directs?
Friday, August 13, 2010
Seattle loses an inveterate digger of science dirt, gains a handyman
"To hear Tom Paulson tell it, his career in science journalism and its environs has been a long saga of “pissing people off.” During the 1980s, for instance, Paulson was working in public affairs at the University of California-Berkeley, where it fell to him to publicize the work of controversial biochemist Bruce Ames, who argues that natural carcinogens can be just as dangerous as synthetic ones. Paulson thought that was “ridiculous,” and therefore instructed a roomful of journalists about how they might “poke holes” in Ames’ claims. And when nobody took him up on the suggestion, Paulson went one better; He wrote a freelance article for the Sierra Club’s magazine debunking Ames and criticizing the journalists who’d failed to cover him with adequate skepticism. As a publicist, he had gone completely rogue."
It's a Carl Hiaasen wet dream, that.
Anyway, he worked for years at the Seattle PI and should be sliding off his severage package right about now.
Read the article: Science-less in Seattle
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’ | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’ | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Though for the record, I should note that A. Reading Ayn Rand caused me to vote for Dubya's daddy back in the early 90s, and B. Her novel, We The Living is among my top five favorite books. Beats The Fountainhead all over the block because it's way less with the political treatise and way more with the keeping it real. Rand herself was not pleased that this was the case, but really not for me to care.
And this, of course, is what any of us would have written:
Though for the record, I should note that A. Reading Ayn Rand caused me to vote for Dubya's daddy back in the early 90s, and B. Her novel, We The Living is among my top five favorite books. Beats The Fountainhead all over the block because it's way less with the political treatise and way more with the keeping it real. Rand herself was not pleased that this was the case, but really not for me to care.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Facebook to Google: Yer outevilin' me
You know you got an evil problem when Facebook — Facebook!! — calls you on it.
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