It’s been a good week for Tesla, the electric car company. Yesterday it reported its first quarterly profit in its ten-year history. Today, Consumer Reports announced that the Tesla Model S was the highest-scoring car… ever. Business Insider reports on Tesla’s recent success: Tesla reaching profitability so quickly provides proof that if you build vehicles that […]

The head of a British health care regulatory body is sounding warning bells about the drastic overuse of the country’s emergency rooms. The Daily Telegraph reports: Too many patients — especially the elderly — are arriving in hospital as an emergency, when they should have received help much earlier, said David Prior, head of the Care […]

The still-young but fast-growing US energy boom is closing in on a big milestone. Thanks to shale, domestic oil production is about to overtake oil imports. CNBC reports: Andrew Lipow of Lipow Oil Associates expects the government data to show that U.S. production actually surpassed imports in March, when it releases its final March data […]

Florida Polytechnic University will be the state’s first public university to operate without a unionized faculty. EAGnews reports that FPU is ditching the tenure system altogether in favor of fixed-term contracts that will be renewed based on performance: Ghazi Darkazalli, the school’s vice president of academic affairs, said the goal is to focus faculty on […]

The last couple of days have seen the torrid pace of Middle East related news kick up to warp speed. The Benghazi hearings (unfortunately being seen more as the kickoff to a GOP Stop Hillary in 2016 campaign than anything else) dominated cable TV. The news that the US and Russia will convene Syria talks […]

Unknown gunmen kidnapped the son of former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani at a political rally today. Ali Haider Gilani’s secretary and guard were killed in the attack.The Pakistani Taliban and other radical groups have waged a deadly campaign during election season; 110 people have been killed in April alone. The attacks have disproportionally targeted […]

A new study has found the better adoption of just one technology could drastically increase the efficiency of US health care professionals—and it’s not some fancy new imaging technology or robotic surgery. It’s texting. USA Today: The study, sponsored by tech security firm Imprivata, shows that clinicians waste an average of 46 minutes per day waiting for patient […]

The venture capital firm behind some of the most prominent recent green tech flops, led by major Dem donors and advised by Al Gore, is in big trouble as the green bubble bursts and one highly touted green investment after another goes belly up. A good, in-depth article in NYT Dealbook shows how Kleiner Perkins, the firm […]

Two stories today (h/t OpenEurope) point to the realities of political life in the EU in these trying times.First up is the news that Silvio Berlusconi has lost his appeal over tax evasion charges in Italy. This long-running saga could stretch out even further; Berlusconi could appeal one more time, during which time the statute […]

The federal government has just released new data about Medicare reimbursement rates showing that the price of treatments vary widely from hospital to hospital. The data, drawn from 3,300 hospitals across the country, looked at how much each facility charged for the hundred most common treatments.The variations in price were incredible. For example, two different […]