Mercury News | 12/02/2003 | Panel: U.S. science leadership at stake

HBS Working Knowledge: Innovation: Sometimes Success Begins at Failure I don’t know how many times the idea of building a knowledge base of failed efforts in order to learn from them has come up, but somehow nobody takes it seriously enough to do it. I understand, however, that the US Army has a department of Lessons Learned at some place ...

Why have I posted Pattie Jackson-Bolduc’s delicious winter squash soup recipe? Because it’s so yummy, and it’s perfect for this time of year. I thank Pattie for the recipe. You will too.

The December issue of Scientific American finishes its two-part article about parts of the genome that have definite influences on how genes are expressed and how health may be affected as a consequence. Last month’s episode explained why some stretches of DNA thought to be “junk”—DNA accumulated down through evolution but having no contemporary impact on what happens in our ...