Economist Joseph Stiglitz Cheers Biden Spending
The Nobel laureate weighs in on stimulus, growth and inequality.
Barak Obama
Why Facebook Should Hire Barack Obama
Many of the company's ongoing crises result from an insufficient understanding of global politics and how Facebook changes it. Zuckerberg needs someone he'll listen to, like the 44th president of the United States.
Data Sharing: Key Challenge for Cancer Moonshot (& American Health)
If we're going to make progress in healthcare, we need to connect up the data. A report for the national Cancer Moonshot initiative highlights the massive problem disconnected databases have become in the fight against...
Obama: Genetic Data + Precision Medicine Will Improve American Health
Lost in a news cycle rife with heartbreak, the Obama administration made a major push last week for its Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). Also referred to as personalized medicine, precision medicine is based on the...
Obama’s Big Start-up Seminar
President Obama wants to encourage young entrepreneurs, and if he has to go out and lecture them himself, he’s willing to do it. Over the course of the two-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit last week, the...
NIH Fast-Tracks Giant Precision Medicine Study
At a genomics conference last week, National Institutes of Health official Kathy Hudson provided an update on the government’s gigantic Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). NIH aims to make real progress before the next president takes...
Why Obama Is Right about Cancer: Genomics
President Obama’s optimistic language about finally nearing a cure for cancer in the State of the Union comes as creative approaches are showing more promise than ever. Two major announcements highlight important new opportunities to...
Obama’s Not-So-Daring Precision Medicine Plan
For all the attention that President Obama’s precision medicine initiative has garnered in the weeks since he first mentioned it in his State of the Union address, you’d think the program was the next version...
Obama Wants to Fight Climate Change with Lasers
The Obama administration is arming cities across the country with lasers to help combat the effects of climate change. The lasers won’t be used, however, to blast tornadoes to pieces or to zap flash floods...
