The NYTimes Claudia Dreifus recently interviewed Dr. Nina V. Fedoroff , science adviser to the secretary of state and administrator of the Agency for International Development:
Q. WHY DOES THE SECRETARY OF STATE NEED A SCIENCE ADVISER?
A. Because science and technology are the drivers of the 21st century’s most successful economies.
There are more than six billion of us, and the problems of a crowded planet are everyone’s: food, water, energy, climate change, environmental degradation. Other nations, even those that have lost respect for our culture and politics, still welcome collaboration on scientific and technological issues.
Science deserves higher priority than it receives in today’s politics. Our presidential candidates have not discussed their positions on critical science policy decisions or participated in a debate called for by nearly the entire scientific establishment . Clearly this is evidence that more of us like Nina m...
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Storm World Receives Starred Reviews From Both Publishers Weekly and KirkusFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-04-24 08:46:04
My new book, Storm World , will not be out for another two months yet; it hits in early July. However, the early reviews are coming in from outlets serving the literary and publishing industry such as Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews . And I’m now tremendously pleased to be able to report that both of these publications have singled out the book, giving it starred reviews.
The reviews themselves are reproduced in full below the fold; the Publisher’s Weekly ...
more My Last OZ Talk: SydneyFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-04-22 16:05:44
I’ve had a wonderful time in Australia; as will be shown in my forthcoming Seed column, the experience has also been very eye opening in a lot of ways. It’s winding down, though: I do one last talk here in Sydney, and then it’s off back to the states on that ridiculously long plane ride.
Tim Lambert (who I’ll get to meet for the first time soon enough) has already blogged the talk, but here are the details:
Tuesday, April 24
6:30 PM-8:00 P...
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Post Date: 2008-06-25 09:11:52
You can read it here . It starts like this:
It was one of the largest public demonstrations in US history. On June 12, 1982, an estimated 750,000 protesters thronged Central Park in New York City, chanting "No nukes!" and bearing signs reading "Reagan is a bomb -- both should be banned" and "Arms are for embracing." Some demonstrators called for unilateral US disarmament, others for renewing arms control talks with the Soviet Union. It was a diverse coalition that had been pulled togethe...
more Intersection Pick: EVOFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-06-25 06:56:24
Well I’m impressed...
It’s called EVO or www.evo.com . The goal is simple: To increase transparency in the green market, decrease green washing, and encourage corporate responsibility.
In response to this increasing demand for product transparency, EVO spent several years developing an objective and scalable technology to screen millions of products for their green attributes. EVO publishes and rates the best products (...
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