Ezra Klein reviews Obama’s handling of yesterday’s health summit — a piece well worth reading for a taste of how sharply focused and serious Obama is about truly comprehensive health-care reform.
Karen Tumlty, a health-care expert, describes in Time her own family’s grueling wrestling match with the health-insurance industry. A timely story — no pun intended — as it makes painfully clear that it’s not just the 46 million people uninsured (did I just say “just” 46 million people) who fare poorly in the current system.
Genetic Future looks at how a Victorian-era height-prediction system beats modern genetics.
When times are hard, sometimes those white capes start to show.
A new theory of how birds (and flying) evolved.
Dr. Bell at Mind Hacks ponders eye contact.