As you glance through, notice the status icons. Not all of the vendors on the list have made it through to approval. Google is approved but, as stated above, is only approved at the Moderate sensitivity level.

The FedRAMP cloud providers list: https://marketplace.fedramp.go...

It may be useful to look at this from a different point of view economically.

1) It's hard to get these plane parts
2) Hey, this jet pilot just landed $200 million worth of parts

They may never trust this plane to fly correctly again but that doesn't mean it's completely useless.

And shoot, I forgot

http://www.nature.com/

As websites, I browse for science:

http://www.newscientist.com/
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://science.slashdot.org/
http://www.nature.com/
http://www.sciam.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
http://discovermagazine.com/

and I include those in my newsfeeds along with the NIH RSS. Also in my feeds are

Flipboard Tech
Flipboard Wired Magazine
Flipboard Make Magazine
Hacker News
ProPublica
Gamification
Science Magazine

In Zite, I use

Science News
Gadgets
Technology
Alternative Medicine
Bioinformatics
Informatics


In Pulse, I go with Slashdot and also

Smithsonian Science
Cool Hunting
Slashgear
Discover Magazine
Wired: Science
and I have not used but intend to try the WebMD app.
I hope you aggregate and rank everyone's choices! I think some really good ones will come to the top that way.

This, too, conflates trust with faith. They are different. Trust is earned by repeatedly showing correctness. That is roughly what science does. Faith is essentially trust without verification, especially religious faith.

Many things in science are verifiable by anyone. Not *all* science is easily verifiable. That's where trust in professional scientists come in. People are correctly suspicious of some scientists while correctly maintaining trust in the entire process. The process keeps proving itself by delivering new medicines, new technologies, and repeatable results.

My grad school ran a cluster of VAX 6000s and I was lucky enough to get to work in the IT department. I wrote code for our gopher server. The cluster was so dependable that users never, in 6 years, realized that the parts of the cluster ever went down. Our system uptime was amazing - far better than any Windows cluster I've seen today despite the VMS/VAX cluster technology ending up in Windows NT.

I recently sat in on a meeting with about 20 CAM scientists from various universities. The issue of validating herbal medicine is a little more complicated than isolating the single active ingredient, which has been the standard approach.
It is becoming recognized that some herbal remedies may be more complex, as in:

ingredient X by itself: no effect
ingredient Y by itself: no effect

X + Y together: a noticeable medical effect

That is, some herbal remedies may work because they have the correct combinations of active ingredients. Ingredient X may be a necessary precursor to ingredient Y doing any good Other herbal remedies *by the same name* may not have the correct proportion (too little of X or Y) and may therefore fail any reasonable test.

I just wanted to point out that current medicine has picked off the low-lying fruit of many herbal remedies and that's the most active ingredients. But the next round of research on herbal remedies and how to improve on them may be more difficult.

He also instituted new limits on lobbyists in the White House and put a freeze on White House salaries. And we're just talking about the first couple of days, here.

WTF? In his first days, he ordered the shutdown of the CIA's secret prisons and the closing of Guantanimo Bay. Did you not believe in that?

When I was getting my computer science grad degree many years ago, my father showed me an article he'd saved (because he saves everything). It was about a new computer language that was going to make computer programmers obsolete. The language? Fortran. The year? 1959. (Yeah, Fortran was around in 1957 but the article acted like it was big news and a real threat to programmers.)

Fortran did allow general scientists to join the programming population but they didn't put the assembly/machine code programmers out of work -- far from it.

People willing to do good work will always be valuable. Always.