George Mason University

...live or die not just by the virus, but by the media's coverage of it. Trevor Butterworth is the editor of STATS.org, an affiliate of George Mason University that looks at how numbers are used in public policy and the media. He writes a...

In this article: Avian flu, E mail, Steroid, Free Press, and Centers for Disease Control

If you remember, The Failure of Capitalism is the title of Judge Richard Posner's most recent book. George Mason University's Russ Roberts has a very interesting podcast with Posner in which they talk about what caused the economic crisis.

In this article: Richard Posner, Capitalism, and Federal Reserve

...and 83-75 to Kansas State 83-75 and fell out from 18th. Even though Georgia Tech rallied from the loss to Dayton with wins over George Mason and Boston University, the Yellow Jackets dropped out from 21st. The other ranked teams to...

In this article: The Orange, Kansas, Syracuse, Ohio State, Jim Boeheim, North Carolina, California, Michigan State, and Georgia Tech

FAIRFAX, Va. A new web site developed by researchers at George Mason University and Oxford University will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a 'cosmic slot machine' and comparing images of colliding galaxies with...

In this article: Galaxy Zoo, Oxford University, Hubble Space Telescope, Chris Lintott, Oxford, Virginia, and UK

...defense spending accounts for 20 percent of jobs in Virginia," said Stephen S. Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University. "The District is too small to be diversified across the sectors like you'd see at...

In this article: Unemployment, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Detroit

...less space than a two-litre bottle of soda. " Jim Olds, a neuroscientist and director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, said neuroscientists have been amassing data about how the brain works without a...

In this article: IBM, HIV, Climate change, San Jose Mercury News, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, IBM Research, Cray Inc, and US National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration

...better sense of large volumes of information. Jim Olds, a neuroscientist and director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, called the new research a "tremendous step." Olds, who was not involved in...

In this article: IBM, All rights reserved, Economics, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, IBM Research, Stanford University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

...the humane genome was mapped out, it's been slow in coming. Now Stephan -- working with the Inova hospital juggernaut, the scientists at George Mason University, and the researchers and health policy experts at George Washington University --...

In this article: Navigenics, National Institutes of Health, Washington, Boston, Virginia, and Competitive advantage