Why Our Medical Care Costs So Much

This excellent article (NewYorker 6/22) written by best selling author and surgeon, Atul Gawande, details, with hard facts, the reason why our health care costs are so exorbitant and why they are devouring our national budget. Free markets need some controls or they run wild . Greed will often trump doing the right thing. Read this well written and absorbing article to understand how things have gone so wrong... http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande

So Long Kodachrome!

To think that in the early days of Life and Look, Kodachrome 25 was the preferred film! Digital cameras today hardly go below ISO 100.... When you see the challenges of processing, you can see why its demise was hastened. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/companies/23kodak.html?scp=5&sq=kodak&st=cse

Understanding the AIG Debacle

This excellent Planet Money Podcast helps you to understand the series of events that allowed the regulators to allow this financial mess. They were "asleep at the wheel". Easy to understand (entertaining, even if the subject matter isn't) and engrossing. http://bit.ly/kXNRg

Unbelievable New Technology !

MIT is working on some amazing new technology - it allows us to intelligently connect with all the information swirling around us. An amazing demonstration at TED http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Reinventing Our Educational Process

It is time to draw students out of the narrow silos of specialization. Specific knowledge is good, expertise is needed, but without a broad education, we only become technicians. Please listen to the President of Bennington challenges us to become truly cross-disciplinary! http://www.ted.com/talks/liz_coleman_s_call_to_reinvent_liberal_arts_education.html

Logos Follow Cultural Trends

Very interesting look at how logo development corresponds to the cultural "zeitgeist". http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/weekinreview/31marsh.html?ref=weekinreview