6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
-
Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a risk factor for AI developments. Data centers, whether or not AI is hosted by them,…
-
Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student notes how power is taught to be valued at Liberty, as she acknowledges: None of…
-
Neat summary of the various “alt” discussions (Alt-text, Alt-HE, Alt-Career) taking place: Many of the alt-career seekers are in the humanities, where traditional faculty jobs are the hardest to obtain. A grassroots movement has emerged to take a new and different approach—that is, an alternateapproach. Expect to see more of this in higher education, where opportunities…
-
Sir Topham Hatt routinely chastises his engines when they allow their selfish, and foolish, decisions to interfere with the proper running of the railroad. He tells them, “You are causing confusion and delay!” This analysis of the Heartland Institute’s campaign to “derail” the teaching of climate science is one which deserves Sir Hatt’s admonishment! The…
-
WP : Colleges looking beyond the lecture The lecture backlash signals an evolving vision of college as participatory exercise. Gone are the days when the professor could recite a textbook in class. The watchword of today is “active learning.” Students are working experiments, solving problems, answering questions — or at least registering an opinion on…
-
James Lewis, Center for International Strategic Studies – spoke on CSPAN 10 Feb 2012 regarding security. He does not hesitate to put his social security number on the web. “If they want to get your stuff, they will get your stuff.” Then there is this NYT story, Big Data’s Impact in the World, from which…
-
Chronicle : Temple U. Project Ditches Textbooks for Homemade Digital Alternatives The pilot project gave 11 faculty members $1,000 each to create a digital alternative to a traditional textbook. To enliven their students’ reading, the instructors pulled together primary-source documents and material culled from library archives. Steven J. Bell, the associate university librarian for research and instructional services…
-
From Inside Higher Ed Why Pay for Intro Textbooks? Using Rice’s Connexions platform, OpenStax will offer free course materials for five common introductory classes. The textbooks are open to classes anywhere and organizers believe the programs could save students $90 million in the next five years if the books capture 10 percent of the national market.…
-
From Campus Technology: NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition, researchers and analysts identified six technologies that have the potential to break down linguistic and cultural barriers, make education more affordable and efficient, open up new modes of learning, improve students’ chances of success and satisfaction in school, and connect us with the everyday objects…
-
Lots of discussion can be found regarding the mission of postsecondary schools to train students to process information. This quote, found in an AP story on the announcement of a guided bullet, paints a surreal picture of what our students will be doing – on the field of battle and in corporate realms: Firestone and…
-
A Step Forward? Bertelsmann & Others Back $100 Million Venture Fund For Innovative Education Advancing the Open Front
-
Interesting thoughts — civic engagement taught in composition/rhetoric via blog posts Distraction is our friend
Jim's Blog 