Author Posts Archive: Nancy Scola


09-15-09 | Battling Back Bacteria

Fifty years after we figured out how to keep astronauts’ food from making them sick, the time has come to commit to keeping the rest of us as safe.

03-03-09 | Cheaper by the Dozen

The salmonella-contaminated peanut outbreak is raising alarm over the U.S.’s fractured food system—a system “organics” and conventional mass-market foods often travel through side-by-side.

08-29-08 | Better Patents Through Crowdsourcing

Want to clean up the patent mess? Start by admitting government can’t know everything. Then put the public on the task.

05-27-08 | Our Fractured Food Safety System

As food worries grow, so does the appeal of a single federal Food Safety Administration to deliver effective oversight of what America eats.

03-26-08 | Broadband Done Right

Virginia rolls out high-speed Internet programs to boost jobs, health care, education, and commerce. It’s a model that works.
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