A look at today’s science and health policy news:
US Offering to help China in fight against viral infection
AP- The US is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children and sickened thousands others.
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China, Tibet, and the strategic power of water
Circle of Blue- Management of the Tibetan plateau’s supply of freshwater is becoming the center of increasing political strife between China and Tibet.
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Think Again: The cost of Enforced Sexual Ignorance
American Progress- An extensive investigation into the Texas’ abstinence-only education.
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Gray wolf protection lawsuit to move forward
LA Times- A federal judge has rejected the government’s request to delay a lawsuit seeking to place the gray wolf back on the endangered species list.
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Peregrine falcons in California’s urban areas are contaminated with toxic chemicals
LA Times- Peregrine falcons in the LA area are contaminated with record-high levels of toxic chemicals that may threaten their existence.
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Planes fly more, emit less greenhouse gases
USA Today- The US aviation industry has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13% since 2000.
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Group Urges FDA to Take Contraceptive Off Market
NY Times- The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has petitioned to pull the birth control patch “Ortho-Evra” off the market calling it far riskier than the pill.
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Armstrong urges Congress to renew war on cancer
AP- Lance Armstrong urged Congress to renew the nation’s war on cancer.
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Presidential Candidates Have Little Opportunity to Talk about Education
US News and World Report- As other issues draw attention, education policy has been ignored in the presidential campaigns.
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Congressional Panel Considers Call for More Female Science Professors
The Chronicle of Higher Education- A draft bill by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson would promote workshops “to increase awareness of implicit gender bias in grant review, hiring, tenure, promotion and selection for other honors based on merit.”
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Bush’s signature gives go-ahead for Platte recovery plan
Rocky Mountain News- President Bush has signed the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008.
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Smith talks science
Gering Courier- Rep. Adrian Smith talk about domestic energy production, and the need for hydro, nuclear and coal energy.
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New rule would limit insurers contact with elderly, disabled
AP- Under a proposed federal rule, agents selling private health insurance plans would no longer be able to cold call the elderly and disabled.
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Bush’s reading program doesn’t pass
LA Times- The Reading First program in the No Child Left Behind Act has not helped young children read better.
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Durbin Assails Energy Department on FutureGen Project
Congress Daily- Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin criticized the motives for restructuring the FutureGen clean coal energy project.
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House Democrats Try Again With Net Neutrality Bill
InternetNews- Reps. John Conyers and Zoe Lofgren are seeking to block ISPs from discriminating against certain network traffic on antitrust grounds.
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Physorg.com ran an article with links to here.
Douglas C. North, co-nobel prize 1993 in economics on groups of people communicating, open exchange of information and interaction between other members.
There is some math on this subject, simple is the sociogram where n members have two way links between each two, such that the sum of links any one member has is this:
L(n)=(n)(n-1)/2.
Thus L(n) is second order geometric with the number of group members.
The Internet has, as I experience such, changed the “game” theories than can be applied.
Yes, start with the division, “bean counters” (bc) and “word merchants” (wm), and leave some “Gibbs interface” (Gi)i) between the two groups.
This is a triplet of concepts, closer to the Natural Number, “e” than classical binary logics.
Just the tip of the Ice Berg.
As time goes the seas warm, change saltiness, the Ice berg tip reduces or rises with many factors.
Don’t disparage word merchants nor bean counters, the model moves with time, a slice of time turn a fuzzy dot dividing on plane paper into two fuzz dots, that is the triplet, a more stable abstract, and a nice Spinozian observation, circa 1531.
This time we side step the Inquisition.
Best, rmuldavin