Patrick Kiger

Biography: Journalist Patrick J. Kiger tells the stories of people who make their mark in ways big and small.

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50-Something Math Teacher Knocks One Out of the Park

Posted on 05/24/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin TodayUnlike other academic fields, mathematics is notorious for being a young thinker’s game. G.H. Hardy, in his 1940 book The Mathematician’s Apology, ticked off a list of great math whizzes from Isaac Newton to Carl Friedrich Gauss and noted that they all made their most important discoveries in their 20s. He concluded, gloomily (and famously): I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. If a man of mature age loses interest …

What Do Hospitals in Your Area Charge? Look It Up

Posted on 05/24/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Money & Savings | Personal HealthLast week the Obama administration started publishing comparative data on what more than 3,000 hospitals across the nation charge for services — information that has long been hidden from consumers. And the results were pretty shocking. As Modern Healthcare reports, the data show enormous disparities in what hospitals charge for the same treatments — not just from region to region, but even among hospitals in the same metropolitan area. Treatment for kidney and urinary tract infections, for example, typically costs $40,902 …

Happy 114th Birthday to the Oldest Living American!

Posted on 05/23/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Home & Family | Personal HealthOK, so Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Mich., who was born on May 23, 1899, isn’t quite the oldest person in the world — that distinction belongs to Jiromon Kimura, a Japanese man who turned 116 in April. That said, the oldest living American has been around for a long, long time. When Talley was born in Montrose, Ga., William McKinley was President, Henry Ford was just getting started as an automobile maker, music was played on phonographs with big horns instead …

Wayne Miller: He Took the Shots Seen Round the World

Posted on 05/23/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | LegacyWayne Miller, who died on May 22 at age 94 in Orinda, Calif., captured iconic images of such a wide range of subjects that it’s almost hard to believe that a single person even saw all these moments, let alone photographed them. Just look at this 2009 retrospective, which includes just a small portion of the portfolio that he shot from the 1940s to the mid-1970s. There’s a dramatic photo of a wounded airman being lifted from a plane on the …

A Retirement Reality Check, Courtesy of Gallup

Posted on 05/23/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Money & SavingsThinking about your eventual retirement? If you’re relatively well-off, you’re probably confident that your tax-deferred savings will provide your major source of income. But if you’re at the other end of the income ladder, you’re more likely to count on Social Security benefits to tide you over. Those are some of the findings of a newly released Gallup poll that reveals glaring contrasts between how nonretired Americans from different income levels expect to fund their retirement years. The key takeaways: Among …

Thanks, Internet, for the Memories

Posted on 05/23/2013 by Patrick Kiger | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Caregiving | Home & Family | TechnologyAge UK, a British organization that strives to help older people get more out of digital technology, is hoping to win financial support from Google’s Global Impact Challenge for what could be a revolutionary idea. It wants to help thousands of people in Great Britain reminisce about their past via the Internet, as a way of teaching them about the value of being online and how it can improve their lives and decrease feelings of isolation. And although the project isn’t …