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What is the public option?

November 23, 2009

Eugene Jacquescoley's picture

The US Senate begins the debate on health care reform withhin the next couple of weeks, I thought it useful for readers to understand what one of the primal points...public option. What is it? Why has it stirred so much controversy?

HIPAA Requires Changes Due To American Recovery Act

November 23, 2009

Eugene Jacquescoley's picture

Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, is the office that manages the funding and operating agreement of the bill signed into law by President Barack Obama called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. American Recovery Act has two goals:

Prevent and detect waste, fraud, and abuse.
Provide transparent reporting of Recovery-related funds as they are distributed and used

Presented by the Vice President of the Federal Council Doris Leuthard: The Balzan Prizes for Culture and the Sciences

November 23, 2009

TERENCE CAVE FOR LITERATURE, MICHAEL GRÄTZEL FOR NEW MATERIALS, BRENDA MILNER FOR NEUROSCIENCES AND PAOLO ROSSI FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Infrared photographs of Uranus taken by HST in 1994-2003 and by Voyager2 1986

November 22, 2009

Tadeusz Tumalski's picture

Infrared photographs of Uranus taken in 1994-2003 (Fig. a, b, c). During these nine years the Uranus has moved for about 38,5° on its orbit (the planet’s year equals 84.014 Earth’s year). We can see the same change of about 38,5° in direction of orientation (in relation to HST) of warmer zone of Uranus’ atmosphere axis and the orbit’s plane of its satellites and rings.

LOOK at ME!

November 22, 2009

jcasimir's picture

Have you ever been on one of those long drives through the country. You know what I'm talkin about not much to look at but the trees on the side and the cars beside you and of course the road. haha got to be safe. I seem to enjoy these drives the best when it's fall. Why is that you ask ?

Melanoma News Database MMMP

November 21, 2009

Finally we have a scientifically reliable, systematically comprehensive, and continuously updated database of news on melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer. It's part of the Melanoma Molecular Map Project (MMMP) website (www.mmmp.org), an internationally based project made by and for the scientific community.

CORRECTED: Survey of Science Bloggers for graduate researchers

November 20, 2009

Apologies - here is the link to the survey for folks who blog about science:

Click Here to take survey

Thanks!

A "shout out" for my favorite science education (ad)venture

November 20, 2009

Fred Bortz's picture

When Pittsburgh Voyager began its unique river-based educational programs, I was in academe and was asked to join its Board of Directors.

When I left my "day job" in 1996 to write full-time, it was time for someone else to take my spot on the Board.

But I still have a soft spot for the organization, which now has a new name that captures its spirit of experiential learning.

Help requested: Please take a survey on science blogging for my graduate research

November 20, 2009

Hi science bloggers - If you can spare 10-12 minutes, would you take my survey about the needs and habits of science bloggers? If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you.

Universities of Science and Technology

November 20, 2009

Yujiang-Wu's picture

Most people believe that university is the cradle of science and technology. A lot of new universities have names like:
"University of Science and Technology"

The Theory of Everything, Physics

November 19, 2009

Some Thoughts on the composition of the Universe
By Vincent Langfield January 17, 2001
Update June 18, 2001

Lupus Foundation of America Releases Video Series on the Latest Lupus Research

November 19, 2009

The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) joined more than 11,000 rheumatologists and allied health professionals at the American College of Rheumatology's (ACR) 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in mid-October. The program included more than 260 abstracts, plenary or special session presentations specifically about lupus.

AFFiRiS AG: Decision to Move Alzheimer's Vaccine Candidate AD02 into Clinical Phase II Testing

November 19, 2009

Interim Analysis of Clinical Phase I Data Triggered Decision to Move Alzheimer's Vaccine Candidate AD02 into Clinical Phase II Testing

Looking for a good science book? This one isn't it!

November 18, 2009

Fred Bortz's picture

The latest Science Shelf Newsletter is now online. It includes plenty of interesting titles, plus one I review negatively.

Redshift in cosmic dust resolves the galaxy rotation problem without dark matter and MOND

November 17, 2009

QED induced radiation's picture

Resolution of the galaxy rotation problem by redshift in cosmic dust allows cosmology to proceed by Newtonian mechanics without the need for dark matter or Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND).



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