"Turkle, an MIT professor and the author of two previous books on the relationship between humans and computer culture, recounts a conversation that she says 'stunned' her. It sure as heck shocked me."
"The 'Connected States of America' project, which is based on aggregated, anonymous cell phone data from July 2010, shows how Americans’ mobile communications define new communities that go beyond traditional city and state boundaries."
"Geoffrey von Maltzahn and coworkers have designed a two-part system consisting of specialized nanoparticles that communicate with each other to amplify the delivery of drugs to sites of disease."
"Although a normal monsoon has been forecast for South Asia this year, and rains have begun normally in many parts of the region, people are still anxious about the rainy season that lasts for four months."
"A new study being released today, by some of the country’s top health economists, aims to estimate the effects of not having health insurance — and the effects are large."
"If US homeowners were permitted to service their enormous mortgages at, say, the Fed funds rate of almost zero, bankruptcies and foreclosures would diminish sharply and consumption and gross domestic product growth improve."- Dr. Robert Madsen
"Why do chameleons change color? Can lightning follow a trail of water? Why do we go in the basement during a tornado? How do those guys karate-chop planks of wood without breaking their hand?"