Stellate-Ganglion Block advocate Dr. Eugene Lipov, shown here with ally Capt. Anita Hickey, a Navy doctor. Photo: Katie Drummond

What if doctors could cure post-traumatic stress disorder with a single injection to the neck? One Chicago-area doctor claims he can, and has finally convinced someone in the Pentagon to give the idea a shot. And Danger Room has learned that some in the Navy believe the approach might actually work.

The freaky procedure is called stellate-ganglion block (SGB). It’s the brainchild of Chicago anesthesiologist Dr. Eugene Lipov. He’s touted the method for years, even...

Jeremy Howard: the data scientist who isn't. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Jeremy Howard is not a data scientist. Except that, well, he is.

At the University of Melbourne, he studied philosophy. Then he tackled the metaphysics of business operations, spending the better part of a decade with management consulting outfits AT Kearney and McKinsey & Company. And then he founded, built, and sold off two startups, including one that hosted e-mail services. He didn’t realize he was a data scientist until he stumbled onto Kaggle.

Kaggle bills itself an online marketplace for brains. Over 23,000 data...