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Issues in Science and Technology: September 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. Education and social mobility. Education and social mobility. A cherished assumption of S&T policy wonks is that R&D will enhance worker productivity and that a high-quality education will enable young people to do productive work and raise their economic standing. Indeed, the potential of a young person from an impoverished family to scale the economic ladder through study and hard work is a fundamental credo of the. High-quality early ...
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Issues in Science and Technology: May 2009
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. If you want young people to think of science and engineering as creative, exciting, meaningful, even hip activities, show them this film. Actually "Imagine It" is more like an animated Lego set than it is a film. It's composed of a rich variety of segments than can be assembled in a variety of ways for different audiences. You can find excerpts from the film and whole lot more at:. Posted by Kevin Finneran at 10:04 PM. Links to this post.
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Issues in Science and Technology: April 2009
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. Obama loves science at NAS. On Monday, 4/27, Barack Obama became the first sitting president since John Kennedy to speak at the NAS building. Obama used the occasion of the NAS annual meeting to tell NAS members how much he loves science and technology. It's hard to imagine a speech that would be more pleasing to the science community. See for yourself:. Http:/ edg1.vcall.com/video/nas/launch.asp. Posted by Kevin Finneran at 8:11 PM.
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Issues in Science and Technology: June 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. US Universities Not So Hot. US Universities Not So Hot. Discussions of the U.S. education system have routinely praised its universities and bemoaned the state of K-12 schooling, but a commission appointed by education secretary Margaret Spellings is finding that all is not well in higher education. Although the best U.S. universities are the best in the world, quality is not universal. The commission has posted a draft version of its re...
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Issues in Science and Technology: July 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. Floyd Landis might have used a banned drug during the Tour de France. The drug might have improved his performance. Banning the use of certain substances might make sport more fair. Then again, maybe not. And in the end it might be impossible to reach certainty on any of these questions. As Gina Kolata points out in the. And the picture is not becoming any clearer. What about naturally occurring stimulants? Like it or not, athletes are i...
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Issues in Science and Technology: August 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. The Age of Endarkenment. The Age of Endarkenment. Is the current politicization of science the death knell for the Age of Enlightenment asks Paul Starobin in a perceptive article in the. Of 7/29/06. (I’d provide a link, but a day pass to. Costs $25 and an annual subscription is $1,885. Try the library for this one.). Starobin cites an April 2006. 98% of Democrats but only 23% of Republicans said yes. That’s politicized science. A forum f...
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Issues in Science and Technology: August 2005
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. Coming soon: Issues blogs. Posted by Kevin Finneran at 9:35 AM. Links to this post. A forum for discussion of public policy related to science, engineering, and medicine. How we nurture the health of the research enterprise. How we use knowledge more effectively to achieve social goals. This is the weblog of Issues in Science and Technology. A journal in publication since 1983 and available online since 1996. Advice from Leonard Cohen.
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Issues in Science and Technology: April 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. Is there anyone who has been awake at some point during the past 30 years who is surprised that the price of gasoline is going up? Apparently, news about the discovery of the law of supply and demand has not yet reached downtown DC. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to be in a state of shock and are spouting barrels of nonsense. Posted by Kevin Finneran at 10:00 PM. Links to this post. NASA: A Modest Proposal. Links to this post.
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Issues in Science and Technology: May 2006
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Comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}. Issues in Science and Technology. All the participants did such a good job that I left with no simple recommendation for what to do. All I can say is that this is an important subject that needs to be broadly studied and discussed. A good way to begin is to read the following two papers. Hahn/Wallsten paper: http:/ aei-brookings.org/publications/abstract.php? Lessig paper: http:/ www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php? Posted by Kevin Finneran at 2:57 PM. How we...
