Joshua Kendall on Noah Webster — Minnesota Public Radio
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/04/19/midmorning2/
Noah Webster, The Father of Public Health Research
Webster was more than a compiler of words. He also was a fervent number-cruncher who authored the world’s first scientific survey. Here’s a recent story that I wrote for The Daily: http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/04/12/041211-opinions-history-yellow-fever-kendall-1-3/