A Fusion Breakthrough?
Terence KealeyThe bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fission bombs. When isotopes of uranium or plutonium break into smaller particles, energy is released, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs channeled that energy into an explosion. In a civil nuclear power generator, by contrast, the release of fission energy is controlled, and used to power the electrical grid.The energy from the sun comes from fusion. Under the weight of the sun ’s gravity, and channeled by vast heat, isotopes of hydrogen fuse with each other to create a new, heavier, element called helium. Helium, indeed, was first detected in the sun...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Terence Kealey Source Type: blogs
Can the War in Ukraine Help the United States Address Security Concerns in the Indo-Pacific?
Even as the Russian military continues to struggle in Ukraine, Air Force leaders and top national security experts at the 2022 West Coast Aerospace Forum warned not to expect similar outcomes in a potential conflict with China. The 7th annual event focused on applying lessons learned from Russia ' s invasion of Ukraine to the security challenges in the Indo-Pacific. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 14, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Echoing Trump, Biden Embraces International Trade Lawlessness
James BacchusThe prolonged charade of the United States is over in its disingenuous opposition to the reconstitution of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. It is clear now that the Biden administration —like theTrump administration before it —has no desire to restore the highest court of appeal in world trade as an independent and impartial tribunal. One now glaring reason is the absence of an Appellate Body will enable the United States to escape the imposition of what would likely have been billions of dollars in annual trade sancti ons because of its continued imposition of illegal tariffs on imports...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus Source Type: blogs
How China Is Building Influence Through Arms Sales
China may be using arms sales to strengthen alliances around the South China Sea and counter the United States ' regional alliances. Beijing ' s security relationships around the South China Sea could be a harbinger of what it might replicate in Africa and possibly Latin America. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 9, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Melissa Shostak; Cortney Weinbaum Source Type: blogs
This year ’ s natural highlights
A few natural highlights from a year that’s been rather miserable in too many ways for me, but peppered with music and photography and nature. You can find the photos I took of these highlights littered around the Sciencebase website, in my Imaging Storm galleries, on my Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, and Facebook.
Thousands of Pink-footed Geese, North Norfolk
Water Rails – RSPB Lakenheath
Frogs (20+) and frogspawn -in our garden wildlife pond
Cranes – RSPB Ouse Fen
Grasshopper Warbler – RSPB Ouse Fen
Otter on the river bank of the River Great Ouse or is it the Great River Ouse, ouse means river so c...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 6, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Xisssh
The protests in China against Xi ' s draconian " zero Covid " policies have inspired some loosely connected thoughts. The first is that, obviously, as with any public health intervention, we need to weight the costs and benefits. The cost of essentially totally shutting down city neighborhoods, factories, even whole cities, and not allowing people to leave their houses for days or weeks on end, is incalculable. Far less stringent policies proved unacceptable to many people elsewhere, though not necessarily based on good information. Nevertheless there were costs to people ' s social and emotional well-being, to children ' ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 6, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Protests in China, Negotiating with Russia, L.A.'s'Mansion Tax': RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on protests in China amid the government ' s zero-COVID policy, the potential harm in negotiating with Russia, building more affordable housing in Los Angeles, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 2, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Policy Options Abundant to Improve Housing Affordability for Families
Vanessa Brown CalderThere are many policies that reduce the supply of goods and services that parents and children need, and therefore lead to rising costs for family necessities like food, housing, clothing, transportation, and childcare. Policies including tariffs, regulations, and licensing rules reduce affordability, while the value of parents ’ wages erodes due to historically high inflation.However, housing arguably constitutes the most substantial and most inescapable financial costs associated with raising a child. U.S. Department of Agriculture figures indicate that for families, the cost of housing is the large...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 30, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Vanessa Brown Calder Source Type: blogs
Abundant Policy Options Available to Improve Housing Affordability for Families
Vanessa Brown CalderThere are many policies that reduce the supply of goods and services that parents and children need, and therefore lead to rising costs for family necessities like food, housing, clothing, transportation, and childcare. Policies including tariffs, regulations, and licensing rules reduce affordability, while the value of parents ’ wages erodes due to historically high inflation.However, housing arguably constitutes the most substantial and most inescapable financial cost associated with raising a child. U.S. Department of Agriculture figures indicate that for families, the cost of housing is the larges...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 30, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Vanessa Brown Calder Source Type: blogs
Five Factors to Watch as the Chinese Communist Party Faces Protests
It may be too soon to compare protests against China ' s zero-COVID policy to the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement. But looking back to 1989 still provides valuable insights into what might happen next. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 30, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Amanda Kerrigan Source Type: blogs
What Biden Has Gotten Right on Immigration
David J. BierPresident Biden ’s handling of immigration is the subject of intense scrutiny and criticism from all sides. Much of this criticism is right, but the president has also implemented many positive policies. While it often acted too slowly and has much more to do, the new administration has already reversed the most important restrictionist policies imposed by the Trump administration.Major Big Picture ActionsEnding the “security” travel bansOn January 20, 2021, President Bidenfully rescinded President Trump ’s ban on immigration and certain travel for nationals of Iran, North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Syria,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Digital Health Stories Of 2022
Edging towards the end of the year, it is time for a summary of how digital health progressed in 2022. It is easy to get lost in the noise – I myself shared well over a thousand articles, studies and news items between January and the end of November 2022. Thus, just like in 2021, 2020 (and so on), I picked the 10 topics I believe will have the most significance in the future of healthcare.
1. The Rise Of Digital Therapeutics (DTx)
Unlike a number of unsubstantial hypes (NFTs, Metaverse to name a few), we see DTx as a meaningful trend that has the capacity to bring major short-term improvements in personalised ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF digital health pharma drones digital health trends vocal biomarkers WHO DTx digital therapeutics Metaverse virtual ward summary AI healthcare worker Source Type: blogs
A Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Bake-Off
I hope your Thanksgiving was as wonderful as mine. We did our usual back-to-back Thanksgiving dinners, shuttling between mine and Mr. TBTAM’s families, trying not to eat too much or too little at either one.
This year, my family eschewed the homemade turkey and instead had a relaxed luncheon at the Valley Green Inn situated on Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Forbidden Drive, one of my favorite places in the whole world.
I’ve biked, hiked, walked, or run that trail countless times over the years, alone and with friends and family. The place is so special to us that my sister Fran’s a...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 26, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetables Candied Goguma Japanese sweet potatoes Korean sweet potatoes Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Taiwan, Putin's Holy War, Mining the Moon: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on why China likely won ' t attack Taiwan anytime soon, Vladimir Putin ' s“holy war” in Ukraine, why it ' s time to make rules for space-mining, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 25, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
One Person ’ s Trash …
BY KIM BELLARD
Gosh, so much going on. Elizabeth Holmes was finally sentenced. FTX collapsed. Big Tech is laying off workers at unprecedented rates, except TikTok, which should, indeed, be cautionary. Elon Musk’s master plan for Twitter remains opaque to most of us. Americans remain contentedly unworried about the looming COVID wave.
With all that to choose from, I want to talk about space debris. More specifically, finding opportunity in it, and in other “waste.” As the old saying goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, so one person’s problems ar...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Debris Remediation Elizabeth Holmes Space Source Type: blogs
