Mar 12 Watch Daily Download: Assessing the Gap Between Twitter Follower Opinion and Poll Data Daily Download: Assessing the Gap Between Twitter Follower Opinion and Poll Data… Continue watching
Mar 12 Watch Is the Advice for Women in Sheryl Sandburg’s ‘Lean In’ Elitist or Universal? Is the Advice for Women in Sheryl Sandburg's 'Lean In' Elitist or Universal?… Continue watching
Mar 12 Watch Rep. Paul Ryan Offers ‘Opening Bid’ on Budget Plan House Budget chair Rep. Paul Ryan put forth a blueprint which he says would cut the federal deficit by $4.6 trillion over the next 10 years. Democrats dismissed the proposal, saying the math doesn't add up. Nancy Cook of National… Continue watching
Mar 12 How Well Do You Want to Know Your DNA? On tonight's PBS NewsHour, Correspondent Spencer Michels and I report on a massive, groundbreaking study underway at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California at San Francisco, which one day may shed light on the genetic roots of health… Continue reading
Mar 12 What Blood, Spit and a Data Bank Can Tell Us About Disease Willie Mae Washington, 92, and her daughter Ida are among the 15,000 women in the Oakland area participating in a study on genetic links to diseases like cancer. Photo by Robert Durell. A giant data bank containing genetic… Continue reading
Mar 12 Is a Squall Brewing Around San Francisco’s Bay Lights? Some 25,000 LED lights lit up the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge last Tuesday. It was a glorious sight on a rainy night, not to mention the talk of the town even a week later. In San Francisco, public art… Continue reading
Mar 12 How to Eat an Apple in Space Oh to be Chris Hadfield, eating maple syrup from a tube and casually gazing down at a smoke plume streaming from Italy's Mount Etna volcano while performing experiments to improve the metal in turbine blades and dental fillings. Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch Law lags behind in defining posthumous protocol for online accounts Law Lags Behind in Defining Posthumous Protocol for Online Accounts… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch New Tensions Crop Up Between U.S. and Afghanistan as Major Transitions Loom New Tensions Crop Up Between U.S. and Afghanistan as Major Transitions Loom… Continue watching
Mar 11 What Happens to Our Digital Lives When We Die? EmbedVideo(5925, 482, 304); PBS NewsHour spoke with Ricky Rash about his struggle to gain access to his son's online accounts after the 15-year-old's death in 2011. Eric Rash had a bright future, so when he committed suicide at… Continue reading