The following is a collection of commentary about members (current or former) of FSI Stanford found on various external, unaffiliated websites via an automated process:

May 14, 2012

Stanford researchers question whether biofuel is the answer to U.S. energy independence

Mention of David Lobell via Peninsula Press

David Lobell, who studies the interactions between food production, food security, and the environment at Stanford, pointed out, “one of the risks with biofuels is that alternatives don’t get explored ...” Read more »

May 10, 2012

China has banished Bo but not the 'bad emperor' problem

Mention of Francis Fukuyama via Financial Times

Francis Fukuyama: "For more than 2000 years, the Chinese political system has been built around a highly sophisticated centralised bureaucracy, which has run what has always been a vast society through top-down methods. What China never developed was ... " Read more »

May 9, 2012

The European Revolt Against Reality

Mention of Josef Joffe via Wall Street Journal

Josef Joffe: "Forget for a moment François Hollande, who sent Nicolas Sarkozy packing on Sunday. Set aside, too, the triumph of the radical left and the neo-Nazis in Greece who together captured one-third of the vote. Look instead at Europe's real mess: the ..." Read more »

May 8, 2012

Rosamond Gifford speaker Abraham Verghese mixes medicine with writing

Mention of Abraham Verghese via Syracuse.com

“My real calling to medicine came because of a book,” said Verghese, an internist, novelist and memoirist at this season’s final Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series in Syracuse Monday evening. Read more »

May 3, 2012

Six Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

Mention of James Fearon via Stanford University News

James Fearon is among six Stanford faculty members who have been elected to receive one of the highest honors for an American scientist in recognition of their achievements in original research. Read more »

April 25, 2012

Is The Internet Closing Our Minds Politically?

Mention of Evgeny Morozov via NPR

A group of experts faced off on the motion "When It Comes to Politics, the Internet Is Closing Our Minds" at an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on April 17 in New York City. Read more »

April 23, 2012

Why Hillary Clinton Should Join Anonymous

Mention of Evgeny Morozov via Slate Magazine (blog)

Evgeny Morozov: "It's hard to deny the intellectual ambiguity of “Internet freedom” when among its staunchest defenders are idealistic hacktivists from Anonymous and hard-nosed diplomats from the U.S. State Department—two groups that otherwise disagree on everything else. Ironically, both may end up ..." Read more »

March 25, 2012

"Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson – review

Mention of Evgeny Morozov via The Guardian (blog)

Evgeny Morozov gives a positive account of George Dyson's history of the modern computer. Read more »

April 16, 2012

Germany Reformed Its Social Model. Europe Can, Too

Mention of Josef Joffe via Bloomberg

Josef Joffe: "Forget Europe’s debt disaster for a moment and look instead at a few numbers that dramatize the underlying problem." Read more »

April 9, 2012

Ask Stanford Med: Stefanos Zenios taking questions on health-care innovation and entrepreneurship

Mention of Stefanos Zenios via Scope (blog)

Later this month, business and government leaders, entrepreneurs, academics and students will gather at Stanford for the 2012 Healthcare Innovation Summit to examine the forces shaping the future of health care and discuss practical solutions to some of our toughest health-care problems. Read more »

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