From THe UK independent on health care

Aug 21, 2009 - http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ian-birrell-why-i-dont-believe-that-the-nhs-is-sacrosanct-1775088.html Ian Birrell: Why I don't believe that the NHS is sacrosanct In this heartfelt polemic, based on his family's experiences in the health service, our writer argues that it suffers from deep flaws – and we are wrong to ignore them David Sandison Ian Birrell's 15-year-old daughter Iona with her mother, Linnet enlarge It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever flawed gene or missing protein might be the cause of my daughter's troubled life, with her terrible seizures, her blindness, her inability to walk or talk or eat unaided. Over the past 15 years, there have been many such attempts to identify her condition. - 21 Comments

There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom (on of those must read articles IMHO)

Apr 26, 2009 - There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom By William Tucker On December 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, "the best mind since Einstein" and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology that is generally regarded to be the opening bell of the Information Age. It was titled, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." "There is a device on the market, they tell me, that can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin," Feynman began. - 12 Comments