Jan 30 2009
This week was a stunning week, not only to my science colleagues but to people who’s job it is to communicate the needs of academia to the Federal government. What made this week unique, as one person put it, was that government actually did what it said it would do. It said it would allocate [...]
Jan 29 2009
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Jan 27 2009
You can find the President’s first weekly address online [1]. I wanted to highlight some language from the summary of the address:
The Administration is still working with Congress to refine the plan, but in the address, President Obama lays out the key priorities. He goes into detail, noting that the plan will update our electric [...]
Jan 20 2009
A friend and colleague of mine brought to my attention some fast-breaking news about the House plan to inject money into science agencies in the stimulus package. According to ASTRA, the Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America, reports [1] that the House plans to invest $1.9B in the Department of Energy and $3.0B [...]
Jan 08 2009
The nomination of Steve Chu for Secretary of Energy was a good first step toward demonstrating that President-elect Obama will take science as a serious component of shaping policy. However, there isn’t too much that is concrete which can tell us what the Obama policies toward science will be. Science informs policy, but policy does [...]
Jan 05 2009
I just had the opportunity to try the new artificial sweeter, “Stevia”. I was on a coffee break in a nearby building when it was pointed out to me that a small shaker of Stevia was available. I shook some into the palm of my hand and licked.
I believe my exact words were, after generous [...]
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