Sep 13 Inspiration, Funding Cited as Top Needs for Math and Science Education By the end of a Brookings Institution event on science and technology education, people were referring to superstring theorist Brian Greene as "rabbi." Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, the moderator, took it a step further, calling him "Rabbi Rev. Continue reading
Sep 09 Scientists Use Scans to Better Understand Brain Maturity As children mature, their brains bloom madly with activity -- growing, pruning and rewiring. During this process, some connections strengthen, while others die off. The brain is reorganizing itself with experience. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine… Continue reading
Sep 09 Slide Show: The Gulf's Healing Process By Sarah Clune NEW ORLEANS | AP photographer Gerald Herbert has been documenting the BP oil disaster in the Gulf -- from the land, sea and air -- since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20. In the three months since… Continue reading
Sep 08 Gov 2.0 | Pillbox Hopes to Create Cure for Disparate Drug Data By Hari Sreenivasan If you've ever found an unconscious loved one with nothing more but a nearby pill and a glass of water as clues, you would certainly want a service that could help you quickly and easily identify what drug might have… Continue reading
Sep 08 Carl Malamud: Internet Has Yet to Revolutionize Legal Industry By Hari Sreenivasan Carl Malamud has been fighting for transparency issues since before most of us started using 28k modems, since before there was a movement and conferences devoted to Gov2.0 principles. His most recent focus is Law.gov, a project… Continue reading
Sep 08 8 Key Failures Led to Gulf Oil Spill, BP Report Says By Jenny Marder In its long-awaited internal report on this summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP blamed contractors Halliburton and Transocean for many of the problems leading up to the country's worst-ever oil spill -- igniting anger from the companies blamed. No… Continue reading
Sep 08 Gov2.0: D.C. Helps Other Governments Learn to Open Up By Chris Amico Among Gov2.0 advocates, Washington, D.C., is one of the major cities to watch for its efforts to provide open data to citizens and software developers as part of its civic services. It was one of the first cities… Continue reading
Sep 08 Wednesday: BP Releases Report on Gulf Spill; Obama to Propose Economic Plans By Tom LeGro In a 193-page report posted on its website Wednesday, British oil company BP partly blamed itself for the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill, as well as companies Transocean and Halliburton and a… Continue reading
Sep 07 Gov2.0: Challenge.Gov Aims to Make Government More User-Friendly By Chris Amico Two of the most consistent themes at this week's Gov2.0 Summit is that government is bad at making the things it needs and it spends far too much on bad technology. "Think about on a daily basis whether you're… Continue reading
Sep 07 At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data Is the Watchword The Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners. Gov2.0 is a catch-all… Continue reading