A New Yorker article by Atul Gawande highlights the importance of spending time and talking about good ideas on a person-to-person basis as the best way to help innovations take hold.  Specific innovations that are discussed include the introduction of anesthesia, the control of germs/Lister’s theories of sepsis, adoption of oral rehydration solutions, and preventing hypothermia in newborns. The link to the article and a brief video review on the Colbert report:

• gat.es/15u8ZMk Link to article in New Yorker
• bit.ly/13vjOKM Colbert Report on this article