Nist

It's been a long time coming. After any number of heavy-handed approaches to online identity management, the federal government looks like it is trying a more enlightened approach.

The "Race to the Core" competition is an Olympic-style battle of the minds where individual countries will field teams to send scientific probes 3,950 miles straight down to the center of the earth.

Unfortunately, there is a tendency towards a paternalistic attitude by certain groups in the medical professions who seek to limit access to medical information that is not directly under their control.