The Secret History Of Mammography
Mammography is one of the most oversold and understudied technologies in medical history. To continue to assert that mammography will save lives flies in the face of huge numbers of studies on the topic.
Mammography is one of the most oversold and understudied technologies in medical history. To continue to assert that mammography will save lives flies in the face of huge numbers of studies on the topic.
Some wishful thinkers may accept Microsoft's claim that this is about TomTom rather than Linux. But this is a landmark assault into the most troubled and controversial terrain of the patent system.
The patent bubble hasn't burst, but judging by last week's Wall Street Journal story on Intellectual Ventures, it's getting pretty big.
The question of just what is patentable is far too complex for Congress to handle -- especially given that even modest patent reform legislation has stalled.
The patent system is often portrayed as the defender of creativity, but as it's grown powerful, it's become a tool to extract settlements from little guys with the threat of astronomical legal costs.
Unfortunately, there is little transparency in today's patent system. Indeed, the patent system is beset by information failure.
There are deeply troubling reports from nations where phones have been used longest that children may be especially vulnerable to the radio frequency waves emitted by cell phones.
Mexico? For a philanthropic renewable energy project with a loosely connected group of wanderers? I'm a climber: my car was filled with outdoor gear, not a pair of flip-flops to be found.
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