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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
On December 27th, 1831, the HMS Beagle set sail on a five year voyage. Accompanying the crew, acting as the ship’s naturalist, was a young Charles Darwin. The implications of the discoveries made during this voyage would only become clear to Darwin over a period of decades, and would change […]
As President Obama chooses those with whom he will surround himself in the executive branch, one choice jumped out at me these past few weeks. That person is Larry Summers, who is famous for two reasons: his service to the Clinton administration as a high-ranking official, and his moment of […]
Today’s Science Friday program was super-timely. The second hour of the show contained a discussion of McCain’s reference to money for the Adler Planetarium as a pork-barrel earmark, and a discussion of promoting innovation in America. Here is the audio: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810244 http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200810246 Regarding the projector, I enjoyed one of the […]
This morning, over breakfast at the B&B where I am staying in Cincinnati, I saw that the New York Times ran a cover article on Alan Greenspan. It was a retrospective – given the mess the economy is in, what does he say now looking back? They highlighted quotes from […]
In my last post, I started by complaining about the way in which information is not cited in news articles. As I got caught up in the actual reference for the Times article on the new Splenda study, I completely stopped caring about my original complaint. Instead, I found some […]
When I was on vacation back in August, I spent 10 days with my parents. Over the course of this vacation, I discovered that my parents had been keeping extensive fuel economy records for their two vehicles. The data on one of them, a Dodge Stratus, went all the way […]
In lieu of the fact that the LHC is about to conduct its first round-the-ring test of the beams, I went to the CERN website to see if I could keep an eye on accelerator conditions in real time [1]. On the front page of the site, I was pleased […]
At breakfast today, a friend of mine informed me that Obama had finally responded to the 14 science policy questions sent to the candidates months ago [1]. These questions arose from the “Science Debate 2008” grass-roots effort, an effort supported by 38,000 signers to get the presidential candidates to engage […]