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Innovation 2008

Today we released Innovation 2008: 14 Questions the candidates for President should answer about Science & America’s Future.
We started with more than 3,300 questions submitted by our 38,000 signers. We worked with 11 other organizations representing millions of voters to winnow them into the top 14 questions the [...]

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Just a brief post to share an email I received this afternoon from Shawn Otto and the ScienceDebate2008 team:
85% of Americans Want a Presidential Debate on Science
Democrats, Republicans agree on need, disagree on issues; health care tops list
Click here for charts of this data
WASHINGTON—May 12, 2008— A new poll shows that 85% of U.S. adults [...]

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The National Academies just issued the following:
February 4 — The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine are joining the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Carnegie Institution, the Council on Competitiveness, and several other organizations and universities in an effort to co-sponsor a presidential candidate debate on [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, the annual Nucleic Acids Research Molecular Biology Database Collection was released. From Michael Y. Galperin’s abstract:
The Nucleic Acids Research online Molecular Biology Database Collection is a public repository that lists more than 1000 databases described in this and previous Nucleic Acids Research annual database issues, as well as a [...]

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I’m intrigued! I came across the researchblogging.org site the other day and I have to admit that I’m excited to see what happens in the next few months. The site is an aggregator which picks up blog entries about peer-reviewed research. If you are a science blogger, you can sign up to [...]

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Here’s something interesting…there appear to be changes in store for the Tree of Life. Check out the write up from sciencedaily.com:
The discovery by Norwegian and Swiss researchers has gained attention from biologists worldwide. The findings come from the largest ever genetic comparison of higher life forms on the planet. Of 5000 genes examined, researchers identified [...]

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National Science Foundation: Science Hard

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