May 21st, 2008
Who says big government and socialized healthcare can’t work? While reporting a story on new ideas for mental health treatment of soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, I ran across a 2004 journal article on Clinton-era Veterans Health Administration reform. What failed with HillaryCare seems to have spilled over into the VA hospital system, [...]
May 19th, 2008
I’ve been working on a magazine feature for Miller-McCune about whether or not governments should try to make people happy, which just went online today. The article itself focuses on Prof. Tim Kasser, a Knox College researcher who practices what he preaches on the happiness front, and has become one of the leaders of a [...]
May 13th, 2008
Divorce wreaks havoc on kids’ brains, and the damage can last years, slowing psychosocial development and providing the seeds of alcoholism and violence later in life. A small cadre of researchers have put together programs to combat these problems. Some court systems and state governments are using them. Most are not. Here’s the story at [...]
May 12th, 2008
This New York Times story on Stanford artificial intelligence professor Daphne Koller is more than a week old, but someone just forwarded it to me, and I can’t resist. Here are the first few grafs: Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees [...]
May 7th, 2008
Here’s one that just popped into my inbox… Dear Ryan Jayme Harris is a young, sensitive, ambitious, and savvy businesswoman who defied the odds of her dysfunctional upbringing in Plant, Florida, and lack of a higher education, to become co-founder and general manager of a multi-million dollar defense contracting company based in Dubai. Her story [...]