A team of scientists from Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has manufactured a battery the size of a grain of sand with a 3D printer. The group custom-built a 3D printer capable of manufacturing the new battery layer by layer, using filaments as thin as human hair. Harvard reports: In recent years engineers have […]

Patients who mismanage their medication cost the US $213 billion each year, according to a new study by the The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. This mismanagement includes underuse and overuse of medication, along with taking it inconsistently or at the wrong time. WaPo: The $213 billion equals nearly 8 percent of the more than $2.7 trillion the U.S. spent […]

An unlikely player has just entered the MOOC fray. On Wednesday, The IMF announced that it will join the online university network EdX, offering courses in financial policy and debt sustainability analysis. At the start, these courses will be open to government officials only, but by 2014 they will become accessible to the public at large. […]

The Nobel laureate and Harvard professor Amartya Sen penned an op-ed for the New York Times that in many ways is a useful discussion of the differences between India and China, the two giants of Asia, but which misses some important elements.In the first place, perhaps because he is writing to encourage Indian reform, Sen understates the […]

A new poll on American attitudes towards health insurance spells trouble for Obamacare, though that’s not how it’s being billed. According to the poll, 76 percent of all Americans aged 18-25 think insurance is worth its price, and 77 percent think it’s very important for them personally to have insurance. The Kaiser Foundation, which ran […]

It’s been a bad time for emerging markets; we’ve been reporting on growth slowdowns in China, Brazil and India along with trouble in South Africa and Turkey. As the Federal Reserve begins to signal a shift in its cheap money policy and rates start to rise in the US, bad news in the emerging markets […]

by Masha RifkinThe perennial refrain is getting louder all the time: “Where have all the good men gone?”Media outlets brim with stories of “men in decline.” While women surge into the ranks of the college educated, the employed, and the breadwinners, men are dwindling in all these categories. Theories for this trend abound. The Left […]

We interviewed Dr. Helen Smith on her new book, Men On Strike, and her views on the challenges men face as they navigate American societal, cultural, educational institutions.VM: You argue that various aspects of our social and economic structure have become so hostile to men that they have “gone Galt” and are opting out of […]

Sometimes the pictures are real, and other times creative criminals fake them using Photoshop. True or not, they can quickly bring down a Chinese bureaucrat’s career. Dan Levin and Amy Qin report for the New York Times: Often the image captures a well-fed, middle-aged bureaucrat engaged in a sordid encounter with a woman who is not his […]

Thanks to the shale boom, US coal exports reached an all-time high last March. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) credits increased Asian demand—Chinese demand, in particular—with the uptick, but the broader explanation involves shale energy and Europe’s green policies.The shale boom is displacing coal in America: coal is cheap, but the US glut of natural gas […]