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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Step Forward? Bertelsmann & Others Back $100 Million Venture Fund For Innovative Education Advancing the Open Front
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Interesting thoughts — civic engagement taught in composition/rhetoric via blog posts Distraction is our friend
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