New leader at Quality Quest charting future of local health care

Gail Amundson, MD. Four years before Congress passed historic, but controversial, health care reforms, the Peoria region embarked on its own brand of reforms aimed at improving the quality of health care in central Illinois. Continue reading

Bill Mann's Canada: Canada’s single-payer health plan turns 50

The same week that President Obama’s health-care program squeaked through the U.S. Supreme Court, Canada marked the 50th anniversary of its own national health care Continue reading

NASA Invites Social Media Fans to Behind the Scenes Look at Mars Mission

What do Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and the Mars Curiosity rover have in common? Each is a Twitter celeb with its respective fan base. While Kardashian tweets missives such as “Loving my Belle Noel ankle bracelets,” Curiosity informs followers of its own fashion accoutrements, such as “There's a camera on my underside that takes pics of the descent to landing site.”  Now followers of the … Continue reading

Astronomy Cast Ep 260 The Technology of LASERS and MASERS – Video




19-06-2012 14:49 Just when you think you understand it, light will do some amazing things. Just look at the discovery of lasers, and their use in almost every technology you can think of: from cutting, to transmitting information to, yes, astronomy. And nature has figured out its own version of laser technology, called the maser, which has kept astronomers puzzled and excited for years. Continue reading