Interesting article on the growing amount of information being collected, much of it by sensors and thus automatically generated, in Agriculture: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/american-farmers-confront-big-data-revolution/2014/03/29/186e93ae-b74f-11e3-9eb3-c254bdb4414d_story.html?algtrack=cfrec-1&tid=btm_rex_2
Two very nice articles about Nationals players (we will ignore the fact that Sports Illustrated for the second straight year picked the Nationals to win the World Series since we know how well that turned…
So yesterday, Saturday, March 29th, we were able to experience two aspects of the Nationals preceding the Monday opening day game against the New York Mets in New York.
We first attended the rainy ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Southeast Washington, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/wp/2014/03/29/ribbon-cut-on-nationals-youth-baseball-academy-in-southeast/.
When a country plays a significant role internationally, that mere fact can bring on a lack of popularity. Becoming irrelevant is not necessarily the solution and often leads to being even less popular. As Machiavelli…
This last week, the Hobby Lobby case was argued before the Supreme Court. For those unaware of the case, the owners of the Hobby Lobby company feel that the requirement under the Affordable Care Act to…
From the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/03/27/nationals-park-to-feature-new-food-items/
One of my now favorite sports writers for the Washington Post, Tracee Hamilton, wrote a column today, Olympic hockey rules for overtime and shootouts,
This followed the dramatic eight round shoot-out, technically in International Hockey referred to as Game Winning Shots (GWS), where the U.S. beat Russia in a preliminary round game in hockey 3-2.
AMARC, www.amarcedu.org, was the sponsor for a webinar last week entitled “Beyond Mobile: Arming DoD for the Future”. The guest was Dan Kaufman, the Director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, interviewed by Kevin Baron, the Executive…
In today’s Washington Post there was an article “Termites inspire construction robots?”, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/termites-inspire-construction-robots/2014/02/13/e6ef44ce-941f-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html. The article discusses an approach to making a building following the process termites use to build their large nests. Termites, and the…
In the Washington Post this morning, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/cbo-botched-health-care-law-rollout-will-reduce-signups-by-1-million-people/2014/02/04/c78577d0-8dac-11e3-98ab-fe5228217bd1_story.html. The column was based on a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study, http://www.cbo.gov/publication/45010, that also indicated that healthcare enrollment will be initially reduced by about 1 million (the headline but not…