Call for papers: Environmental Risks and Sustainable Technology Development and Construction
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management Today’s economic development is highly correlated to environmental risk issues. Environmental risk of pollution can take various forms. Seeking the best way for sustainable construction can help mange environment risks caused by pollution such as that of air, water, soil and the food we [...]
Await your reply
If you are looking for a fine, literary novel of suspense for summer reading, one of those that keeps you up late because you need to see what happens next, let me recommend Dan Chaon′s Await Your Reply. In rotating chapters it follows three seemingly-unrelated stories (although of course we know that somehow these stories [...]
Dog Whistle Politics and the Repeal of the ACA: The Endgame is the Privatization of Medicare?
Emboldened by the further erosion of pubic support for health reform, it seems opponents have become more brazen in their plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. As the politically naive Disease Management Care Blog understands it, they′re planning a two step roll-back. Step 1 is to take control of Congress at the midterm, followed [...]
Industry supported CME has the dwindles
From Medical Marketing and Media: Total commercial support of accredited CME fell 17% to $856 million in 2009, according to ACCME’s annual report—marking its second straight year of double-digit declines on a percentage basis. For 2007, ACCME data showed commercial support increasing 1%. Sandwiched between 2008, when industry grants slid 14% to $1 billion, and [...]
Kealey on scientific motivations and incentives
Editorial Invisible colleges, private patronage and commercial profits versus public goods, government funding and ‘crowding-out’: Terence Kealey on the motivations and incentives driving science Bruce G. Charlton Medical Hypotheses. 2009; Volume 72, Pages 111-115 *** Summary What kind of a thing is science and how does it work? [Kealey T. Sex, science and profits: In [...]
