'Battleship'-style math can improve sustainable design, groundwater management, nuclear waste storage and more

In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize ...
Variety

Sinclair ABC Stations Won’t Air ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ for Now, Will ‘Evaluate Potential Return’

ABC sidelined Kimmel after Nexstar Media and Sinclair, two major U.S. TV station owners, vowed to preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for the host’s on-air comments about the death of conservative activist ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Using Mortality and Years-of-Life-Lost Metrics to Evaluate Health System Performance and Inform Health Care Policy

Health plans in the United States have not typically examined the overall mortality outcomes of their enrollees. Kaiser Permanente (KP) collaborated with the Institute for Health Metrics and ...
Pitcher List

Using PLV’s Decision Value to Evaluate Hitter Ability: Speed Edition

Top-tier speed is a dangerous weapon on a baseball diamond. In the field, it allows players to get to balls that lesser athletes would never even have a chance to make a play on. In the batter’s box, ...