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Black and White Television

I am old enough to remem­ber watch­ing a black and white tele­vi­sion as a kid. No, I am not talk­ing about black and white movies on a color tele­vi­sion, I am refer­ring to a tele­vi­sion with no color. When I grew up, color tele­vi­sion was not ground­break­ing, but it was still an upgrade from the […]

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Snow Job

I heard a great story by Jeff Brady on NPR while on the way home yes­ter­day.  It was about the work of two researchers from Dart­mouth who found it odd that ski resorts seemed to report more snow­fall than sur­round­ing areas and and steeper increases in snow amounts on week­ends.  They also found that resorts […]

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User Generated Health Care

I have an idea that would help improve the health care sys­tem.  This idea would dra­mat­i­cally speed the process of diag­no­sis, reduce unnec­es­sary test­ing, more quickly iden­tify effec­tive courses of treat­ment and rad­i­cally reduce the costs asso­ci­ated with the entirety of it all.   I call it User Gen­er­ated Health Care.  The idea is simple […]

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