The Future of Our Society—Endless Dreams—

Digital dreams: the future of e-government

Mr. Eisner will discuss the real world of digital government -how the Interand intranet are being used by the Federal government, what the challenges have been to increasing the use of electronic technology, and what he thinks needs to be done in the future. His primary emphasis will be rulemaking, a process that involves significant public participation. He will provide specific illustrations ...

Dreams Bring Lucidity to Our Thinking

exist. At the same time, he was aware that he was thinking, and he was able to contemplate his own thoughts. Scientists call this reflection on one’s own thinking “metacognition” – a skill that so-called lucid dreamers have, as well. Elisa Filevich and Simone Kühn at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin are studying which brain regions are particularly pronounced in lucid dr...

New dreams: back to the future.

guinal hernias are less likely to have other anesthetics (i.e., children with hernia are otherwise healthier than the background population, which would be difficult to argue for biologically). For clarity, as requested by Flick and Warner, we included all children in Denmark born from 1986 to 1990 who underwent surgery for inguinal hernia before the age of 1 yr (n 2,689); of those had 2,445 (9...

Our adolescents--our future.

Pipe Dreams: Tapping into the Health Information in Our Sewers.

The emerging field of sewage chemical-information mining is taking advantage of a readily available yet underappreciated resource: the untreated waste flowing under our feet and the biosolids remaining after treatment. It turns out that sewage and sewage sludge hold a wealth of data on chemical consumption and exposure, and potentially even the health status of whole communities. EHP A Section ...