June 20, 2016, 03:45 pm
By By Nina Plaushin
As temperatures are heating up for the summer, it is once again a crucial time to heed the call to invest in the country’s electricity grid. Heat waves, extreme weather and other conditions can impact reliability, and a stronger transmission...
June 20, 2016, 01:40 pm
By Tom Govanetti
As I write this, I’m watching TV. Or am I? I’m not so sure anymore.
I’m watching a philosophy lecture on a Sony smart TV that I bought last year. But I’m not watching the Philosophy Channel—no, even in our age of hundreds of TV channels,...
June 17, 2016, 02:42 pm
By Eric O’Neill
In response to unprecedented cyber-attacks in the past few years including breaches of the Office of Personnel Management, IRS, Federal Reserve, and now the DNC, plus rampart industrial espionage targeting United States industry, the...
June 17, 2016, 10:31 am
By Parker B. Antin
The federal government makes a crucial investment in the nation’s future when it provides funding for scientific research. These precious resources have produced breakthrough discoveries that led to new therapies, innovative technologies,...
June 16, 2016, 03:16 pm
By Gary Adler, National Association of Ticket Brokers
There has been a lot of news recently about the difficult experience some fans have when it comes to buying, selling or transferring tickets to live events. In fact there are two bills now introduced in...
June 15, 2016, 01:20 pm
By John Neuffer
Imagine the potential of a supercomputer 200,000 times faster than your desktop PC, one that could accomplish in one day tasks it would take an average computer more than 530 years to complete.
Congress has a chance this...
June 15, 2016, 12:56 pm
By Namira Salim
For women living under the glass ceiling marred by 18 million cracks in 2008, Hillary Clinton's primary electoral victory indicated its resounding shatter.
Her longstanding role as an advocate for gender empowerment, particularly in such...
June 15, 2016, 07:42 am
By Trish Gilbert
Our nation’s air traffic control (ATC) system relies on a well-trained, highly qualified workforce. Air traffic controllers must work rapidly and efficiently under tremendous stress while maintaining complete concentration. Controllers guide 70,...
June 13, 2016, 01:08 pm
By Ed Black
Watching Hollywood and Big Cable lobby against the FCC’s proposal to promote competition in the set-top box market, you might think their lawyers have taken a hint from their screenwriters: don’t let facts get in the way of a good story...
June 10, 2016, 11:31 am
By Nathan Leamer
In June 2007, 18-year-old Kelsey Smith was tragically abducted and murdered in Kansas. For various reasons, it took four days for law enforcement to access the location coordinates of her cellphone, delaying the recovery of her body and extending...
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