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August 28, 2007
We will be going back on the road this fall--our calendar has in fact filled up quite quickly. So we're pleased to announce the following confirmed events this September through November, with as many details as are currently available. Stops include Minneapolis, New York, Washington, D.C., and…
May 30, 2007
It's official: The "Speaking Science 2.0" talk is now viewable in its entirety on YouTube:
The presentation above is the one given by Matt and myself at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences a few weeks back. Unfortunately, you can't see the PowerPoint slides; you can…
May 17, 2007
On May 3, as part of the annual AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy, retired Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), the former chair of the House Science & Technology committee, gave the keynote William Carey lecture (full text). In his address, he devoted several pages of his speech…
May 15, 2007
So here's the bad news: This picture of Matt is probably the only reasonably good one from our latest talk, at the American Institute of Biological Sciences annual meeting yesterday.
But here's the good news: The entire talk was recorded and should be available soon enough on YouTube. We're…
May 12, 2007
Matt Nisbet and I just got back yesterday from our first trip together to do a joint talk: At the spectacularly impressive Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri. The public event (followed by a solo "war on science" dinner's speech by yours truly to the Stowers Institute's…
May 7, 2007
On April 6, 2007, my good friend Matthew Nisbet and I published a policy forum article in the journal Science. A week later, we followed up with a somewhat longer commentary in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post. In both articles, we argued that scientists, while always remaining true to…