4 posts and columns on citizens

YouTube Nabs a Sit-Down With Barack Obama

in Media on February 1, 2010 at 7:39 am PT

Yet another tie-up between Google and the White House: A one-on-one interview between Barack Obama and YouTube. The crowd-sourced questions are a sort-of novelty, but it’s worth nothing that this is yet another live-streamed event for the clip site.

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Volunteering Computers for Science

in News on October 20, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

The next cure for a major disease is as likely to be discovered on a computer as on a laboratory bench–and scientists are enlisting ordinary citizens to volunteer to help crunch the data. Advances in computer science have enabled medical researchers to test how proteins fold, genes interact and pandemics spread in complex digital simulations of natural environments.

Sure It's Not Called the Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978?

in News on June 20, 2008 at 11:47 am PT

What was it Thomas Jefferson once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Whatever it was, it bears repeating today in light of the astonishing amendments made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 this week.

Sure It’s Not Called the Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978?

in News on June 20, 2008 at 11:47 am PT

What was it Thomas Jefferson once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Whatever it was, it bears repeating today in light of the astonishing amendments made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 this week.