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Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice 3 Nov 2012 | 11:10 pm
I’m a man, and if you think it’s hypocritical that a man is writing a piece about abortion, then I’d agree with you. I firmly believe women can and should be able to decide this issue for themselves w...
A Bloombox for your Car Part 2 7 Dec 2011 | 03:26 pm
In the words of Stephen Colbert “I Called It”. A few years ago I wrote about using a bloom box to power your car. Now there’s apparently a company who’s doing just that. I called it!
A Robot Reporter? 22 Apr 2010 | 03:17 am
Radiolab and Wired magazine each ran a story recently about a computer program they called a “robot scientist”. Its actual name is Eureqa. The Radio Lab story gave a compelling portrait of Eureqa’s ca...
5 Stories: Bipartsian ObamaCare Support 17 Apr 2010 | 03:25 am
Now that health care has passed with no Republican support it’s natural to ask whether this represents a Democratic takeover of government. Fortunately we don’t have to rely on the word of our elected...
5 Stories: Economic Cliff 8 Apr 2010 | 04:06 am
When the current recession started back in late 2008 many economists, bankers and politicians described the situation in very vivid language. “The economy is going over a cliff” many of them said, yet...
5 Stories: Health Expense 2 Apr 2010 | 04:33 am
The hardest “easy” story around probably is “where does the US spend its health care money?” Easy because the US has by far the most expensive health care system in the world. One would expect that fi...
5 Stories: Heart and Sleep 23 Mar 2010 | 04:11 am
Recently ABC News (and others) ran a story about how doctors in Sweden discovered an increase in heart attacks every year when the clocks spring forward and similarly a decrease in heart attacks when ...
5 Stories: Breast Cancer Screening 19 Mar 2010 | 03:39 am
Late last year the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a report that significantly changed the breast cancer screening guidelines for women. They raised the age where mammograms are recommend...
5 Stories Made Better By Visualization 18 Mar 2010 | 04:21 am
I recently attended the CAR2010 conference and at one panel posed the following question: Why isn’t there more, much more, data graphics in the news? By way of example I listed 5 recent news stories...
Abusing Reconciliation? 10 Mar 2010 | 09:44 am
Datagraphics can be used to inject civility into public debates. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (and others) has been quoted as saying that reconciliation has never been used to pass somethi...
