A new “open access” journal (ie, no subscription fees to greedy publishers) is starting up focusing on nutrition, physical activity and behavior. It’s a peer-reviewed publication with quantitative research. Not surprisingly it’s called: The International Journal of Behvioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. It’s purpose statement: The IJBNPA is an open access, international and peer-reviewed journal devoted to furthering the understanding ...

I thought the term “New Economy” died along with the dot-coms a couple of years ago. Then it meant a cornucopia of growth and prosperity from technological evolution. But now the New York Times is using it to mean global competition for jobs and outsourcing. I guess we didn’t perceive that the New Economy is a Janus-faced proposition and now ...

First democratizing philanthropy, and now democratizing supercomputing…all in the news today. Some class science projects get out of hand. That is certainly the case with Patrick Miller’s graduate course in do-it-yourself supercomputing at the University of San Francisco. On April 3, his students plan to assemble the first “flash mob supercomputer” in the school gym. “We’re trying to democratize supercomputing,” ...

New charity laws proposed; regulators warns donors. * The 60 biggest donors in the U.S. made donations and pledges totaling $5.9 billion in 2003, up from $4.6 billion in 2002, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in its Feb. 19 issue. Bequests by those donors grew 50 percent to $2.7 billion in 2003, while pledges fell by more than half to ...