The latest episode of the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM)’s “Get The Download” podcast series is worth taking time to listen. The program covers much of the nuts and bolts of finding advertisers or sponsorships to monetize your Internet video creations. Interviewer Cathy B...

Who's tired of the cold and talking about the economy? I thought I'd give you guys some room for talking since I am feeling uninspired (I hate this time of year, the waiting for Spring) and generally lazy.   Copy and paste the questions into the comments section and let everyone know a little bit a...

In a number of previous notes, I have suggested that our healthcare system is broken and needs radical reform. In one of them, I pointed out some of the absurdities of hospital pricing (see: Why the Prices Charged by Hospital for Inpatient Care Are Irrelevant). I have also discussed in previous note...

In a recent note, I reported the story of how UnitedHealth was penalized for the action of Ingenix, its subsidiary, that developed the reference databases used to establish usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR) rates. UCRs are used by health insurance companies to bill consumers who venture "o...

This interview of Leonard Pitts gets down to the heart of the matter.... Many did not consider and/or held the conviction that the Civil War was about ending Slavery in the USA, or fought because of that particular cause. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was issued over a year after the star...

This is one of my favorite places in the world. A real 1950s drive in theater, which has been operating continually. It has just one screen, but no remaining speakers, unfortunately, so you have to either listen on your car radio or bring a boom box. We do the latter. The Brazos is in Granbury, TX, ...

One of the reasons that our healthcare system is so expensive is that the bulk of the costs are devoted to treating chronic, but often preventable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, and lung cancer (see, for example: Seeking Solutions to the Chronic Disease Epidemi...

Through my recent participation in Twitter (more about microblogging and Lab Soft News in a later note), I have been electronically introduced to Dr. Minas Chrysopoulo whose username in Twitter is mchrysopoulo. If you sign up as one of his followers on Twitter, you can read his periodic 140-characte...

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I published major articles with the Weekly Standard in 2005 and 2006 (with updates elsewhere) on how, despite predictions of as many as a billion deaths from pandemic avian flu and calls for spending 2.5% of the U.S. GNP annually to prevent it, overwhelming evidence indicated the disease posed no th...