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
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Landmark Year in Private Space Flight Development
With NASA's retired shuttles mothballed in museums, 2012 saw a new kind of spacecraft blaze its own path toward the International Space Station. Continue reading
I was a teenage conservative
Right-wing politics offered its own form of rebellion in the 1960s. 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