Chris Mooney is a freelance writer and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey...
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February 29, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
Lots of readers have been writing, asking us for video from the AAAS science debate... Now from New Scientist: Clinton vs Obama: who would be best for science?...
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Category: Politics and Science
I asked Senator Landrieu what the ocean community can do to prioritize funding for programs like Sea Grant and support for basic research...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:04 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 28, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
Rita Colwell Former Director, National Science Foundation 1998-2004; Distinguished Professor, University Of Maryland/Johns Hopkins University School Of Public Health; National Medal of Science, 2006 Watch more video statements here...
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Category: Marine Science
This morning I'm off to Cap City for an Ocean Leadership Public Policy Forum on the Hill. Senator Landrieu is set to deliver the keynote address and speakers include Vice Admiral Lautenbacher (Administrator of NOAA), and Rita Colwell (former Director...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 10:00 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
Neal Lane Former Science Adviser to President Clinton as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Senior Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University Watch more video...
Posted by the interSeCtion at 3:52 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
Over at Shifting Baselines, Randy Olson just posted an interview with Matthew Chapman, the original guy behind the curtain of Science Debate 2008. Sheril and I have taken to calling Matthew our "fearless leader," but "fearless, selfless, deeply inspirational leader...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:19 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics and Science
Keeping November in perspective, the upcoming election isn't about gender, race, or Nader... it's about our collective future. And the Call for a presidential debate on science and technology doesn't just come from our luminaries, it's been taken up by...
Posted by the interSeCtion at 9:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
Steven Chu Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology at U.C. Berkeley, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997 Watch more video statements here...
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Category: Miscellaneous
I don't have much to add to Sheril's recent post on Ralph Nader--and I certainly don't have anything nearly as clever to put up here as the Forrest Gump picture (although I will add that unlike Nader, Forrest did eventually...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 10:05 AM • 61 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
So. Ralph Nader's running for president... again. Sure, it wouldn't quite feel like a proper election without him--Nader's been on the ticket ever since I was old enough to participate. But the thing is, he generally appeals to young voters...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 12:44 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
Lawrence introduces me to Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, a wonderful role model for everyone, but particularly women in science. Down time with some members of the ScienceDebate2008 Steering Committee. From left: Austin, Matthew, Sheril Shawn, Lawrence [Chris present by...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 1:56 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics and Science
John Holdren Chair, American Association for the Advancement of Science; President and Director, Woods Hole Research Center Watch more video statements here...
Posted by the interSeCtion at 11:40 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics and Science
Matthew and I chat with Alec Ross after the Clinton-Obama debate on Saturday. Ross represented Obama and Thomas Kalil represented Clinton. The AAAS annual meeting took place February 14-18 in Boston, Massachusetts. Scientists from around the world gathered to...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:12 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2008
Category: Politics and Science
Rosina Bierbaum Former Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan Watch the newest video statements here In the last 24 hours,...
Posted by the interSeCtion at 2:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics and Science
Should Congressional Democrats, led by Barbara Boxer, try to get a global warming bill passed this year, even if it's the relatively moderate (and modest) Lieberman-Warner America's Climate Security Act? That's the matter currently dividing the environmental community, and the...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 11:52 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sexed Up Science
If you watch prime time tv, music videos, or walk past a magazine stand, it would appear that the average adolescent male has sex on the brain. I never gave it much thought, although regular readers know by now I'm...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:12 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
