The U.S. Department of Education received about $100 billion ($100,000,000,000) from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It's an enormous amount of money that is going to given to the States. $4.35 billion of this amount has been earmarked as The Race to the...
Health care has emerged as one of the most contentious issues of the day in the USA. The contention is not new. This PBS time line covering the past 100 years identifies points of contention and progress in the government's attempt to deal with health care on a...
Several months ago I purchased Steven Johnson's new book The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America. I started reading it, but for some reason put it away, only to return to it this weekend. I finished reading it...
For the past week, or so, I have been trying to sort through the information emerging from Washington about health care, and what should be done about it. In the Senate, the bill is known as the Affordable Health Choices Act, and in the House (HR 3200) it is called...
For the past week, or so, I have been trying to sort through the information emerging from Washington about health care, and what should be done about it. In the Senate, the bill is known as the Affordable Health Choices Act, and in the House (HR 3200) it is called...
I decided to obtain a copy of Unscientific America by Mooney and Kirshenbaum via my Kindle App on my iPhone, and started reading immediately. A few days later, the book arrived. In an early part of the book, "the rise and cultural decline of American science," the...
