Looks like the NIH is adopting some new initiatives to push research out the door faster in deliverable interventions in health. They have developed a “master plan” that targets more specific areas of research. Some quotes: …the institutes will provide training in clinical research to community doctors, who can help test treatments and disseminate the findings of biomedical research. One ...

Here’s another article about the debate in nearby Silicon Valley about its future. What will it take to come back? Can IT return as the engine of growth or must it be something new like biotech or nanotech? Whatever “the next big thing” is, will it employ US born and raised scientists and engineers or competitors “offshore”? The thing is, ...

This site is so cool I just had to post it. Couldn’t help myself. It’s called the World Heritage Tour. Click on what they call a VR (virtual reality). When you get to a picture put your curson in the picture, hold down the left mouse button and move left or right.

Perhaps the ACS could take a page from IBM’s game-book. Earlier this month Big Blue initiated a program called “Innovation Days,” several days devoted to looking at how they could refresh innovation at IBM labs around the world. They had a familiar problem: how to encourage innovation while working on the usual short-term objectives. They took ideas by e-mail and ...