This article documents a problem I think is non-trivial. The US is slipping in it’s ability to attract the best science students in the world. Other countries like the UK and Germany are pulling them in. In the long run there are real consequences for not folding the best and brightest into society. My slogan for that is: Intellectual capital ...

Here’s an article from the NYTimes about Oracle’s buy-out of PeopleSoft. It suggests that consolidation is happening because there are too many software companies. What happens is that the big ones buy the more vulnerable ones, extract a little technology, and, over the long run, induce the customers of the swallowed company to switch over to the products of the ...

USC epidemiologists have just spelled out the disparities along race and ethinic lines for cancer incidence and mortality here in California. It’s sort of a work-plan for us for the next decade. I suspect similar disparities exist all across the country. See the last paragraph. LOS ANGELES (Dec. 14, 2004) – Among Californians, black men face the highest risk of ...

From the NYTimes: Google, the operator of the world’s most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation’s leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings into digital files that would be freely searchable over the Web…. "Within two decades, most of the world’s knowledge will be digitized and available, ...