“Its public school system, organized as a single, island-wide district, is among the weakest in the United States and long plagued by bloated administrative spending. In some age groups, less than 10 percent of students meet federal testing standards.”
“The answer to monopolistic costs imposed upon consumers is competition. With these three major corporations turning their attentions to providing just that, it may be possible to get genuine reform.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/can-amazon-fix-american-health-care/
“Research demonstrates the Importance of immigrants to the creation and growth of America’s largest and most valuable companies.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/4-little-known-facts-about-immigrants-and-company-founders/
“SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX’s service comparable to cable and fiber. Today’s satellite broadband services use satellites in much higher orbits and thus have latencies of 600ms or more, according to FCC measurements. OneWeb was the first company to seek FCC approval to enter the US broadband market with low-Earth orbit satellites and received approval in June 2017. OneWeb wants to offer service in Alaska as early as 2019. Boeing is also planning to offer satellite broadband.”
“Researchers now believe the Maya had a population of 10 million, ‘much higher’ than previous estimates. The discoveries include urban centers with sidewalks, homes, terraces, ceremonial centers, irrigation canals and fortifications.”
“They’re leapfrogging pharmaceutical companies’ incentive structures, funding and organizing their own research in search of a cure. And they’re trying many of the same approaches that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have used for decades.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/a-familys-race-to-cure-a-daughters-genetic-disease/
“Rubin’s order shows that board staff were tracking blogs and news articles chronicling Geier’s downfall, mocking him and his son in emails and reveling in their humiliation. When they got a tip that Mark Geier may have still been prescribing medication, they vowed to look into it. Before holding an evidence hearing, board attorney Victoria Pepper drafted the cease-and-desist order.”
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Regulators-who-targeted-anti-vaccine-physician-12549294.php
“For those suffering from severe depression or PTSD, suicide is often just one dark thought away. But these souls are told they must suffer lest they be thrown in jail for using something as ‘evil’ as marijuana or psychedelics, both illegal in the eyes of the state.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/support-the-troops-with-peace-and-the-right-to-try/
“A new class of antibiotic extracted from unknown microorganisms living in the soil, which they call malacidins, kills several superbugs — including the dreaded methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) — without engendering resistance.”
“Scientists at Stanford University say that the treatment works ‘startlingly well’ in mice, with nine out of ten animals cured after one injection, and the rest after a second injection. The treatment involves injecting tiny amounts of two drugs directly into a tumour – which triggers an ‘amazing body-wide’ reaction where the immune system attacks cancer cells.”
