| Charity Battles Imaginary Killing MachinesAnother group has joined the ranks of academics and ethicists who want to save our society from blood-thirsty armed drones that are preparing to gun down our puppies and children. Too bad they don't exist outside of science fiction. |
| Kaiser Permanente - The Archimedes ModelThe model creates a virtual reality in which all the important objects and events in the real world have corresponding objects and events in the model's world. When a simulation is run, the objects interact and events occur as they would in the real world. The Archimedes Model has virtual people with virtual physiologies who get virtual diseases, go to virtual doctors, get virtual tests and treatments and have virtual outcomes. |
| A Call for a Presidential Debate on Science and TechnologyFor your information: A concerned citizens initiative now cosponsored by the AAAS, the Council on Competitiveness, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, and signed by nearly 100 leading American universities and other organizations. |
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