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04-12-2008, 04:49 PM
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A Presidential Science Debate
Science Debate 2008 is the name of an effort to get the Presidential candidates to commit to discussing science issues before the election. Adam Hinterthuer reports.
Podcast Transcript: Hillary is undecided. Obama and McCain both passed. But the scientific community is committed to staging a candidates’ debate about science and technology. They want straight talk on political buzzwords like climate change and stem cells, as well as less discussed issues like funding for basic research and the National Institutes of Health. What started as citizens worried about the U.S. losing its edge is now a movement called Science Debate 2008.
An article in the current issue of the journal Science, claims that, by 2010, 90 percent of the world’s scientists and engineers will live in Asia, where research is well funded. The authors say the US needs to keep up because science and engineering drove half of America's economic growth over the last fifty years.
Article continues here... (http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=3E266FAE-D9C3-DAB6-A69CA7D4A2FEE2B0&sc=rss)
A Presidential Science Debate
Science Debate 2008 is the name of an effort to get the Presidential candidates to commit to discussing science issues before the election. Adam Hinterthuer reports.
Podcast Transcript: Hillary is undecided. Obama and McCain both passed. But the scientific community is committed to staging a candidates’ debate about science and technology. They want straight talk on political buzzwords like climate change and stem cells, as well as less discussed issues like funding for basic research and the National Institutes of Health. What started as citizens worried about the U.S. losing its edge is now a movement called Science Debate 2008.
An article in the current issue of the journal Science, claims that, by 2010, 90 percent of the world’s scientists and engineers will live in Asia, where research is well funded. The authors say the US needs to keep up because science and engineering drove half of America's economic growth over the last fifty years.
Article continues here... (http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=3E266FAE-D9C3-DAB6-A69CA7D4A2FEE2B0&sc=rss)