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...cheerleaders - including the one in the Oval Office - are right, computerized medical records will save us all: save jobs, save money, reduce errors, and transform health care as we know it. In a January speech, President Obama evoked the promise of new technology: This will cut waste, eliminate red tape and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests," he said, and he has proposed investing $50 billion over the next five years to help make it happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronic Medical Records: Will They Really Cut Costs? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...confidence that tames the complicated electronic melody.Santogold returns later on the track “Whatchadoin?” with close friend M.I.A., as well as rapper Spank Rock and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner. Telephone dial tones, the chanting voice of M.I.A. and a tribal drum beat transform Zinner’s guitar into an infectious rhythm. Spank Rock’s frenetic rhymes provide the verses to round out a solidly danceable hit. The clear cohesion between the various guest acts and the production of N.A.S.A., which works so well on “Gifted?...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: N.A.S.A. | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

They should keep smoothing out the kinks: There are 13-year-olds’ horizons to transform...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: One Laptop, Much Controversy | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...current economic conditions, which have made it extremely difficult to obtain funding. Her research focuses on harnessing fungi’s ability to remove harmful substances produced by mining sites. In particular, Hansel said that many mining sites have toxic concentrations of manganese, and that fungi are able to transform the metal into an inert form. Hansel said she plans to use the grant to expand her research by adding a new project—along with post-doctoral researcher Cara M. Santelli—to study the process by which fungi can break down other potentially harmful substances...

Author: By Eric W. Baum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SEAS Professor Wins Science Award for Non-Tenured Faculty | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...volume for about 4½ hours a day.) The risk of permanent hearing loss, Portnuff says, can increase with just five minutes of exposure a day to music at full volume. Over time, the noise can damage the delicate hair cells in the inner ear that transform sound waves to the electrical signals that the brain understands as sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: iPod Safety: Preventing Hearing Loss in Teens | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

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