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Science, Policy, Economics, Technology
Friday, April 28, 2017
Faking news
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Recent news that an unvaccinated Portuguese girl has died of measles (1) is a constant reminder that ignorance can exact a high cost. A sin...
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Stuck in a quantum state
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Development of life over the past few billion years on Earth shows few regime changes and evolution has been largely an incremental process...
Friday, April 14, 2017
Back to Europa
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ET experts at the space agency have been focused on exoplanets for several years. After the proclamation that ET would arrive by 2020, t...
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Living on luck
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In a couple of weeks, an asteroid of nearly a kilometer wide will pass by the blue planet at just a million miles away, a mere whisker by a...
Friday, April 7, 2017
Quantum optimization
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Classical annealing has been a method of optimization in many areas, for ever. Recently, quantum annealing, based on quantum tunneling, was...
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Hubble Trouble (1)
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Hubble, from the University of Chicago, observed for the first time in 1929 that galaxies are flying away from us. Many candles later, the ...
Friday, March 31, 2017
Open research
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Recent news (1) that the European Commission will soon join the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation to launch an open research publication ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017
The economics of health
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The economics of health has been complex. Diverse stakeholders - patients, providers, manufacturers and payors - who all seem to have a par...
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