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High School in Southern Georgia: What 'Career Technical' Education Looks Like
Earlier this month my wife and I spent about a week, in two visits, in the little town of St. Marys, Georgia, on the southernmost coast of Georgia just north of Florida and just east of the Okefenokee...
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When a 1-in-a-Billion Chance of Accident May Not Seem 'Safe Enough'
As the mystery about the fate and location of MH370 continues, and as theories come and go about what might have happened, here is a note from J. Mac McClellan, long-time editor of Flying magazine,...
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As the Search Goes On for the Plane That Disappeared, How Can So Many Flights...
Earlier today, I quoted the longtime aviation writer J. Mac McClellan on the one-in-a-billion risk factor to which modern aircraft design is held. Someone familiar with such standards writes in: I'm a...
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'Career Technical' Education: More Middle in the Middle Class?
Two days ago I mentioned what my wife and I had seen this month at Camden County High School, in southernmost Georgia. There all students, in addition to regular academic subjects and 20-plus AP...
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Electronic Medical Records: A Way to Jack up Billings, Put Patients in...
Previously on this topic: my Atlantic Q&A with Dr. David Blumenthal, who supervised the Obama administration effort to move medical records into electronic form; and installments one, two, and...
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Where to Get Your Next Fix of MH370 News
Executive summary of what you'll find below: If you're looking for more discussion of MH370, please swap the first 90-minutes of this "Google Plus Week" (embed below) for the next 90 minutes you would...
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A High School That Teaches Students to Fly, and Other Innovations in 'Career...
Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more Background: this story on Camden County High School, in Georgia, and its "career technical" academies, followed by this from readers; plus Deb...
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Why the Anti-Corruption Drive in China Is So Important, and So Potentially...
Here is a crude but effective classification scheme that I have used in distinguishing different economic systems. It is between "efficient" levels of corruption in government and business, and...
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Today's 777s-in-Peril Update: Asiana 214, MH 370
1) Asiana 214. If you'd like to see professional pilots landing big airplanes, under difficult circumstances, with hundreds of lives at stake, watch any 20-second portion of this video taken at...
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Cynicism-in-Public-Life Contest, John Roberts Edition
[Update: please see this follow-up item too.] If People magazine were based in D.C., instead of their Sexiest Man Alive specials they might run Most Cynical Person Alive contests. Obviously there are...
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On Anger, Cynicism, and Public Discussion
I have a several-day stretch ahead of being away from the Internet, but before I go I wanted to follow up on one point. Some people liked, and some people very much did not like, an item I did late...
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Back in a Few Days
For day-job reasons, I don't expect to have anything in this space for the next few days. In the meantime, I offer two resources on the MH370 front. One is an extremely detailed "Markov Chain Monte...
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Who's the Most Accomplished Republican Strategist of the Day?
Tomorrow morning, we start in with a big installment of American Futures reports. For now, followup on two previous items, one and two, on what we have learned about the Supreme Court and Chief Justice...
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'I Love Sioux Falls,' Word-Cloud Style
Deb Fallows -- whose relevant ID for the moment is as a linguistics expert and a fellow-traveler and co-pilot on our American Futures journeys [plus, my beloved wife since we were 21 years old] -- has...
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The Transformation of a Company Town: St. Marys, Part 1
Last week I mentioned the very impressive "career technical" high school my wife and I had visited in Camden County, on the Georgia coast just north of Florida. Now, some of the background on why the...
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But Seriously Now, Why Do Doctors Still Make You Fill Out Forms on Clipboards?
We'll get back to St. Marys, Georgia, later today. For now, let's dip back into the mailbag for the latest array of views -- most from doctors or other medical professionals, some from technologists,...
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What an Autopilot Could Never Do
Last week I posted a video of airliners whose pilots skillfully executed the "crab into kick" technique for landing in a crosswind. As a reminder: the airplane approaches the runway at a "crab" angle,...
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The 5 Things To Do About the New Heartbleed Bug
[Please see important UPDATE in a newer post, and repeated at the bottom of this post.] Most flaps about scary new Internet bugs are just typical scary Internet flaps. This latest one, the Heartbleed...
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How to Check if a Site Is Safe From 'Heartbleed'
This post follows one a few hours ago about the Heartbleed security failure, and for safety's sake it repeats information I have added to that post as an update. Point 1: If you would like to test to...
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St. Marys Interlude: the Okefenokee
Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more When we have told people who are not from Georgia that St. Marys, where we spent time last month, adjoins the Okefenokee Swamp, the most typical...
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