The Perfect Storm hits Local Government

I’ve been watching Jericho. It’s a more-than-decent attempt to combine Picket Fences with The Day After. This combination enables them to tell a variety of stories–suburban pathos stories in one thread, nuclear holocaust stories in another thread...

The question of choice

Over at Prometheus6, Earl is dealing with the paradox of choice.  If you’ve got a nice chunk of time, go over there and check that video out…then take a look at what Malcolm Gladwell has to say about the subject. I do happen to believe that the...

End of the Week Shout Outs

A few years ago when I was starting the postdoc in Baltimore, I met a powerful MD/MPH named Sekai, who was studying HIV/AIDS on both the domestic and international level.  She looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Her last name?  Chideya. She had the same...

HIV Vaccine possible

It’s been widely thought that the reason that HIV/AIDS was so hard to fight was that it morphed…changing shape in a way that prevented standard approaches to dealing with disease.  As soon as you develop a method of dealing with one form, another form...

Late night power tools

I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while now. No time like the present: Compendium of Public Radio Podcasts –Access to over 900 public radio programs throughout the globe. 45 Free Cutting Edge Books–Many authors are starting to release...