Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Deconstructing evidence based care
NCPA.org: we are about to usher in the era of big brother medical care.
Color red increases speed and strength of reactions
Science Daily: A new study finds that when humans see red, their reactions become both faster and more forceful. And people are unaware of the color's intensifying effect.
New experiment shows both wave and particle nature of light
BBC News: The "complementarity" rule asserts that it is impossible to observe light behaving as both a wave and a particle, though it is strictly both.
In an experiment reported in Science, researchers have now done exactly that.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Real Cost of Auto Bailouts: Bankruptcy Law
WSJ.com
The car bailouts have sent the message that, if a politically important industry is in trouble, the government may step in, rearrange the existing creditors' normal priorities, and dictate the result it wants. Lenders will be very hesitant to extend credit under these conditions.
The car bailouts have sent the message that, if a politically important industry is in trouble, the government may step in, rearrange the existing creditors' normal priorities, and dictate the result it wants. Lenders will be very hesitant to extend credit under these conditions.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Glenn Reynolds: Hard to get good goons these days
Washington Examiner:
But miners and steelworkers are one thing. When the public employees of, say, Wisconsin hit the streets, it looked more like a bunch of disgruntled DMV clerks and graduate teaching assistants, because, well, that's what it was.
But miners and steelworkers are one thing. When the public employees of, say, Wisconsin hit the streets, it looked more like a bunch of disgruntled DMV clerks and graduate teaching assistants, because, well, that's what it was.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
After 29 months of Obama, America is heading towards the economic abyss
Telegraph:Years of profligate spending, massive bailouts and useless stimulus measures have made America poorer, not richer, and threaten the long-term economic foundations of this great country. President Obama’s big government experiment has been a dangerous failure, only further proof that the deadening hand of federal intervention is the last thing America needs at this time. The United States needs more economic freedom, less government regulation and spending, and lower taxes if it is to create jobs, wealth and prosperity, a message that seems to have been lost on the Obama presidency as it drives the United States towards the financial abyss.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Hidden Deep Within ObamaCare, Racial Preferences
Pajamas Media:
"...institutionalized racial preferences and ethnic quotas at nursing, dental, and medical schools is nothing new. What the bill’s language does that is new is make sure that race, sex and ethnic quotes will be institutionalized in perpetuity.
"...institutionalized racial preferences and ethnic quotas at nursing, dental, and medical schools is nothing new. What the bill’s language does that is new is make sure that race, sex and ethnic quotes will be institutionalized in perpetuity.
Medical schools have been making use of racial preferences for decades. And like everywhere else where racial preferences have been practiced, there’s a huge downside.
To be sure, outstanding black and Latino students are studying at many of the nation’s best medical training institutes. But racial preference policies have allowed other black and Latino students who are less-than-qualified into many of these same schools. This has led to high dropout rates and the failure to pass critical licensing exams at rates far higher than their classmates."
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Henninger: Obama's Cloud Economy - WSJ.com
WSJ.com:
It is sometimes unfair to tag presidents with blame for an underperforming economy. Not this time. This president made conscious policy choices during a deep recession to reorder vast swaths of American industry. Strong-performing economies need clarity. Barack Obama has given ours indecision stretching to the horizon.
It is sometimes unfair to tag presidents with blame for an underperforming economy. Not this time. This president made conscious policy choices during a deep recession to reorder vast swaths of American industry. Strong-performing economies need clarity. Barack Obama has given ours indecision stretching to the horizon.
Can We Please Stop Pretending the GDP Is "Growing"?
zero hedge: The Federal Government borrowed and spent $5.1 trillion to get $700 billion in total GDP "growth" from 2008-2011. In constant dollars, there was no growth at all.
PIMCO's Gross: monetary policy represses Treasury yields
HousingWire: Gross advises all frogs who are asleep in the pot to jump before the water hits a boiling point.
via Newsalert.
via Newsalert.
Elderly Japanese volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis
BBC News:
The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60.
The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60.
They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young.
Unexpectedly
Jobless Claims Fall Less Than Expected.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 422,000, the Labor Department said. The prior weeks figure was revised up to 428,000.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims dropping to 415,000 from a previously reported count of 424,000.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 422,000, the Labor Department said. The prior weeks figure was revised up to 428,000.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims dropping to 415,000 from a previously reported count of 424,000.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Meet the lizard that will kill Texas oil production
HotAir:
Texas has a shale boom starting that could dramatically increase American oil production — an increase perhaps as high as 25%, which would help curb gas prices and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil. But this field could be at risk — and other fields as well — if the US Fish and Wildlife Service lists the sand dunes lizard as endangered.
Reminiscent of the debacle in California's Central Valley, where crops rot and people stand in line for food while the EPA engineers a drought.
Texas has a shale boom starting that could dramatically increase American oil production — an increase perhaps as high as 25%, which would help curb gas prices and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil. But this field could be at risk — and other fields as well — if the US Fish and Wildlife Service lists the sand dunes lizard as endangered.
Reminiscent of the debacle in California's Central Valley, where crops rot and people stand in line for food while the EPA engineers a drought.
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