Scitizen Science policy

While reading an article on oil company taxation in the Wall Street Journal, I ran across a quote from Treasury Secretary Geithner that crystallized my growing impression that the administration ...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/the-wrong-enemy_a-31-2613.html

Towards the end of October, I received a flurry of emails asking me to check out new social networking sites for scientists.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/social-media-for-scientists_a-31-2323.html

Barack Obama's top priority if elected president is to launch an Apollo-style national project to build a new, clean energy economy. That's what he told Time magazine reporter Joe Klein last week...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/obama-s-top-priority-spark-a-new-energy-economy_a-31-2295.html

In February, John Bohannon ("The Gonzo Scientist") reported on the results of the first Dance Your Ph.D. contest. The video below is from Ruth Gruetzbauch. She is dancing "The eventful life of ga...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/the-ph-d-dance_a-31-2267.html

"The French are most advanced in all manner of Arts, and refined Conversation, and in the Use of electric Cars." - Thomas Jefferson, personal correspondence, 1786. In honor of Independence Day, l...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/electrify-america-the-founders-were-right-let-s-look-to-france-_a-31-2128.html

A dog that sniffed out survivors after 9/11 has won a contest to be cloned.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/911-dog-to-be-cloned-it-won-t-be-the-same-dog_a-31-2114.html

Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May discusses the Liberal carbon tax plan and the NDP's negative reaction to it. "I'm disappointed Mr. Layton is on the wrong side of this one.... I am afrai...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/elizabeth-may-on-dion-s-carbon-tax-plan_a-31-2032.html

Part 1 of a 14-minute documentary on state governments' response to the growing threat of climate change.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/ahead-of-the-curve-2-states-lead-on-climate-change_a-31-2033.html

Sen. Obama, speaking at a rally in Montana, offers a 0 billion energy plan that would support jobs in Indian reservations and across the West, where potential for alternative energy development i...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/obama-s-energy-policy_a-31-2015.html

Senator McCain in North Bend, Washington on May 13 discussing energy policy and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/john-mccain-on-energy-policy_a-31-2014.html

The UK is debating a new bill to govern the ethics of creating embryos.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/-uk-scientists-seeks-to-ban-creation-of-humanzee-_a-31-1958.html

Corey Berman and Michelle Boigon from Green Students Fundraising speaking live on CBC News Morning with Heather Hiscox on ways to become more energy-efficient at home.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/green-students-fundraise-on-cbc-morning-news_a-31-1643.html

As companies expand, one of their concerns is restricting their carbon footprint. BBC World interviews Sean Whetstone, head of IT Services at Reed, about the company's recent policies in Australi...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/green-computing_a-31-1642.html

Sen. Obama poses a clean energy future as good for the economy as well as national security, proposing a 0 billion investment in renewable energies and energy efficiency to create over 5 million ...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/obama-talks-energy_a-31-1644.html

Mayors adopt energy efficiency and climate protection.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/green-it_a-31-1576.html

In the past 50 years, human society has rapidly transformed the environment at a dizzying pace, and poor nations have been made to bear a disproportionate portion of the costs, reports a new stud...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/where-ecological-footprints-fall-poor-nations-fare-badly_a-31-1464.html

Marc Gunther discusses the topic of climate change in the upcoming 2008 U.S. presidential election.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/water-beer-and-the-white-house_a-31-1325.html

Christopher Dodd, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton describe how they would address subsidies, conservation, and biofuels at "The Des Moines Register Presidential Debates" in Johnston, ...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/u-s-democratic-presidential-candidates-on-subsidies-for-biofuels_a-31-1329.html

Each year the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to predict what will happen in the next 12 months regarding the major bioethical and biotechnological controversies of the day.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/-my-predictions-for-2008_a-31-1321.html

The House has a new energy proposal out that you should support. Not because it's perfect, but because it's the right thing to do right now, to recognize the tremendous efforts it required of Spe...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/time-to-ask-congress-for-a-down-payment-on-the-future_a-31-1269.html

Midwest Governors (plus Canadian officials) signed a couple of climate agreements in Milwaukee last Thursday.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/midwest-climate-pact-generates-little-attention_a-31-1230.html

There were several studies on biofuels issued last week, while I was away...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/biofuels-and-rationality_a-31-1199.html

In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger released their provocative and much-discussed essay, "The Death of Environmentalism,"* in which they criticized the environmental movements lack of...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/attention-nordhaus-and-shellenberger-time-to-call-a-cease-fire-_a-31-1187.html

When government agencies have to announce bad news, they tend to do so on Friday afternoons, so that it will disappear into the often-unread Saturday paper. That?s what USDA did on Oct. 5 when th...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/unsolved-mysteries-the-case-of-the-tainted-rice_a-31-1186.html

Today?s issue of Science contains a new look into the world of genetic genealogy. ?The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing?, led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/first-60-minutes-now-scientific-journals-genetic-genealogy-in-today-s-science_a-31-1173.html

The public debate on environmental sustainability seems to be oscillating between two unsound extremes: either radical reforms aimed at dramatic reductions in energy and material flows or a busin...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/inverting-sustainable-development-rethinking-ecology-innovation-and-spatial-limits_a-31-1138.html

The winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine were announced this morning.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/2007-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine-knockout-mice_a-31-1142.html

This is an extract of the first presidential debate of the 2008 race sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee held in South Carolina on July 23, 2007. This was also the first presidential ...

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/cnn-youtube-2008-democratic-presidential-debate-on-energy-issues_a-31-904.html

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is the keystone of the EU risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. Interview with Suzy Renckens, head of the GMO panel.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/-efsa-is-neither-pro-nor-anti-gmo-_a-31-859.html

B?atrice Roman-Amat is a journalism student at Sciences po Paris. In an interview with Scitizen.com she discusses the findings of her study on the soundness of Wikipedia submissions.

http://www.scitizen.com/science-policy/-some-people-try-to-use-wikipedia-for-ideological-purposes-_a-31-860.html