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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Pithy paths to collaboration using twitter — Chatters determine the topic to be discussed each week by voting in an online poll. They mark their tweets with the hashtag #edchat, making it easy for anyone to search for the conversation,
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Gizmodo : You can’t afford Apple’s Education Revolution while iBooks are very affordable textbooks, the iPad makes for one insanely expensive backpack What all this adds up to is a education revolution for the landed gentry. Or even worse, schools
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From John Naughton’s top 10 books about the internet So, in the end, I asked myself the question: what would you really need to know in order to understand the significance of the internet? The answer is that you need
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A North Canton Ohio High School encourages students “Bring their own devices” The plan, according to the U.S. Department of Education website, “calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education
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The trouble with business books is that they don’t update in real time. David Rowan writes in GQ.com on Ten Key trends in Digital Tech. Topics spur interesting thoughts regarding the need to redesign post-secondary, and perhaps secondary, education.
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Lots of criticism is found about whether the data supports regulations phasing out incandescent light bulbs in favor of CFL’s. Some conservative state legislators have offered resolutions attacking the claims. Elearning is capturing the imaginations of many of the same
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how data science intersects with research and the social sciences Discusses how technolog affects the social sciences and whether students are adequately trained in the application of these new tools
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Seems Facebook uses cookies to track where you go on the web, and report those journies back to FB. This occurs EVEN WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN. My sources are competent people in the business. Dave Winer, whose inventions
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Interest in bibliometric research using eigenfactors…. an article requiring some time to digest…
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A NYT article on how tax breaks benefit the electronic games industry is very informative. Lots of topics for discussion (i.e. is the R&D credit responsible for R&D?) but, this quote indicates that Entertainment Arts, despite its location in the
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