Beautifying hospitals: a tough sell

Move Over , MRSA : Tough Acinetobacter Threatens Hospitals

P face at least a month’s worth of Medicare payment reductions if Congress doesn’t reconcile on the provisions of a spending bill by the end of January. “Physicians once again have been penalized by a Medicare reimbursement formula that might negatively impact our ability to care for our patients,” said Dr. W. Michael Alberts, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. “The ti...

Solar system exploration. Technology is essential, but it's a tough sell.

ogy is no match for Mercury’s broiling temperatures or Jupiter’s deadly magnetic field. But planetary scientists face the daunting prospect of planning 21st century explorations of more hostile regions of the solar system for longer periods with technology largely unchanged since the 1970s heyday of Voyager and Viking. When it comes to speed, power, and communications systems, says NASA space s...

Beautifying Gödel

The incompleteness theorems of Kurt Gödel [1931] are considered to be among the most important results of mathematics. They are regarded as “deep”, and they strongly influenced the course of modern mathematics. They are popularly thought to prove the limitations (or even futility!) of mathematical formalism. At any rate, they deserve to be presented as simply, as elegantly, as beautifully as po...

Making a Tough Sell: Options for Promoting Energy Efficiency in New California Homes

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Tough choices: private sale of drugs in public hospitals.