…if I really reflect on how I, a Latina from Las Vegas, was able to become a scientist at an elite university, it wasn’t my own curiosity. It was the influence of a blackjack dealer who also happens to be my mother.
A former AOL vice president is poised to become one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s top science and technology officers…she’s also been a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab engineer, a top spy, and a champion of open source software, too.
The lessons of history are being ignored. Scientific facts are being ignored. The public will is being ignored. On some social issues, this nation is moving boldly forward. The people are leading and the politicians are following. But on too many critical issues, the people are trying to lead but the politicians are not following. On too many issues where we need political leadership, we are getting none. No one person is to blame. No one coalition is to blame. We are winning elections, and anachronistic Republican lunacy is being slowly relegated to the sewage treatment plants of history, yet we continue to get compromised, bad, and even dangerous policies. On too many issues, we cannot afford to continue getting compromised, bad and even dangerous policies. Too much is at stake.
A West African science prodigy inspired scientists from top tier U.S. universities by transforming trash into technological solutions to empower his community—he is only 16. Kelvin Doe, also known as DJ Focus, is a self-taught inventor from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Named for its high-pitched calls…the coquí is the generic name for some 14 species of frog…Three of the species have gone extinct since the 1970s…scientists fear that the remaining 14 will also disappear unless the authorities take quick action to preserve more land and to slow rising temperatures…Loss of the coquís would be unsettling for Puerto Rico, where the frogs’ image can be found on everything from T-shirts to key rings…Because the frogs feed on mosquitoes, the decline of the tiny amphibians will mean that humans will be more exposed to mosquito-borne diseases…
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For the last 10 years, CNN has been battered by competition, primarily by Fox. They have incurred huge losses in ratings to Fox and like just about anyone in cable television, they have altered their programming far more in the direction of entertainment and amusement as opposed to information with redeeming value. That of course does not bode well for covering science…CNN has looked obsessively at how many viewers they’ve lost to Fox…The biggest issue is that what we covered were perceived to be either elite issues or liberal issues that were of little value if your goal in life is to compete head to head with Fox News…You do not need science and technology to compete with Fox.
[he] oversaw the CNN environmental beat from 1995 to 2008
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries—we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure—our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet…
…frost flowers, a strange phenomenon where frost grows from imperfections in the surface ice amid extreme sub-zero temperatures…forming spiky structures that have been found to house microorganisms. In fact, the bacteria found in the frost flowers is much more dense than in the frozen water below it, meaning each flower is essentially a temporary ecosystem, not unlike a coral reef…
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President Obama understands the key role science has played in building a prosperous America…[he] has championed investment in science and technology research that is the engine of our economy…[Mr. Romney]…supports a budget that, if implemented, would devastate a long tradition of support for public research and investment in science at a time when this country’s future depends, as never before, on innovation.
from a letter signed by
Sixty-eight Nobel Prize winners in the science fields, including the two Americans who won this year’s chemistry prize…endorsing Mr. Obama over his Republican rival…
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