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Bernanke's comments to Congress were not particularly useful because they did not increase the country's understanding of America's economic problems. The recovery is about to begin. It will be slow. Unemployment will stay high for a long time. It is still a risky period. One or two...
That behavior is exactly what the folks at Google are counting on. Since last fall, the search-engine giant has been nurturing a spin-off service called Google Flu Trends, which aims to identify outbreaks by tracking searches for flu-related terms and provide health officials with early warnings of...
"How useful this [surveillance] is, no one knows for sure," says Dr. Douglas Owens, professor of medicine at Stanford University. "None of these types of methods has been used under these circumstances directly. But they are certainly worth evaluating."
Where Google Flu Trends may prove more useful, however, is in the tracking of an epidemic once it is under way. If the current H1N1 outbreak were to worsen and start to spread more quickly, then Google's system may be able to keep pace with it and alert health...
If worship is about creating community, Twitter is an undeniably useful tool. The trick is to not let the chatter overshadow the need for quiet reflection that spirituality requires. At Westwinds, people can ask questions about the sermon that the pastors will answer later, or they can tweet in real...