Massachusetts Student Wins Intel Science Prize With Cancer Study Before he arrived at the nation’s top science fair competition last week, Herbert Mason Hedberg had already written four pages of a how-to guide on science fair strategies for fellow students at his high school in North Attleboro, Mass. But yesterday, after his research on potential cancer therapies won first prize ...

Here’s a demographic update from the NY Times for populations in the US. The Hispanic and Asian-American populations in the United States are expected to triple by 2050, when non-Hispanic whites would account for the barest majority, according to a Census Bureau report to be released Thursday. By 2050: Total US pop: 420 million (282 m now) Hispanic pop: 24.4% ...

BW Online | March 16, 2004 | Gunning for the U.S. in TechnologyI know, I know, I’ve talked too much about offshoring and that sort of thing. But I want to draw attention to this Business Week article because it really points to the thing that makes the hair on my neck stand on end. Namely, is the US losing ...

Our own Mike Mitchell and Nathan Grey had a meeting with one of bloggings leading lights, Joi Ito, last week. They exchanged ideas about blogging and the ACS. Joi blogged the meeting on his site and asked for comments. If you read Ito’s post make sure you read the comments that follow.