Wednesday

Industry Influence on Comparative-Effectiveness Research Funded through Health Care Reform | Health Care Reform 2009

Industry Influence on Comparative-Effectiveness Research Funded through Health Care Reform | Health Care Reform 2009: "Although most observers agree on the value of funding [comparative effectiveness research], many are unaware that embedded in the [current proposed] legislation are provisions ceding substantial influence to the medical products industries that have a major interest in the outcomes of such research."

Tuesday

OpenPV Home

OpenPV Home: "PV installations through time" Some good news for a change.

Guest blogger - Saul Griffith's "Energy Literacy Series" - Boing Boing

Guest blogger - Saul Griffith's "Energy Literacy Series" - Boing Boing: "will help you call bull$#!+ on people at dinner parties who espouse some fantastic new perpetual motion machine."

How the Credit Rating Agencies Engineered the Goldman Sachs Bailout - Aig - Gawker

How the Credit Rating Agencies Engineered the Goldman Sachs Bailout - Aig - Gawker: "in 2008, if you wanted to sell an insane securitized mortgage concoction premised on prospective cash flow from monthly receipt of soiled envelopes full of change mailed in by hobos, Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch would have rated it as investment grade."