President Obama Science Policy

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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 07 1st, 2010 | No Comments

2010: A Space Policy

President Obama unveiled his new plan(PDF) for NASA. After scrapping the manned space program Constellation last fall the President pushed back plans to return to the moon and send a manned mission to Mars. This announcement and policy reversal struck some stargazers and scientists as disappointing. The...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 06 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

John Glenn Wants To Keep Shuttles Flying

America’s first hero astronaut is calling on the Obama administration to reverse course and keep NASA’s space shuttle program alive. John Glenn says retiring Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor later this year would ground U.S. manned space flight for at least a decade. “Why terminate...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 02 17th, 2010 | 1 Comment

President Obama Speaks Live to Astronauts on International Space Station

With the recent extension of the World Wide Web outside of this world, space is just a click away. And taking full advantage of the new ability to live stream to astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station, President Obama congratulates the team for installing the last piece of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011

The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Uncategorized on 01 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Science State of the Union

President Obama’s first State of the Union address was long as these speeches go but short on science. With only a few mentions of science, science education and innovation, the Monday morning science quarterbacks criticized the President for not including more science. But two teenage future...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Space, Uncategorized on 12 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Final Frontier Goes Commercial

There are growing signs that outer space is going to become the domain of private enterprise. Since the U.S. space program began, it has been largely controlled by the federal government. But that’s all changing. The first spaceport just broke ground in New Mexico. The first commercial spaceline...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Deconstructing Carbon Emissions

Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about carbon emissions–the gas released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and a whole host of other human activities. While the catch-all is called “carbon emissions” they aren’t confined to carbon...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 11 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Copenhagen Diagnosis Reveals Dire Climate Future

just as world leaders are getting ready to head to Denmark for a big climate negotiations conference that will determine the treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, a new scientific assessment is painting a dark picture of the future, based on recent climate science. Though not an official report of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Energy, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Solar, Video, Wind on 09 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

President Obama Vows to Fight Climate Change

President Obama Addresses UN Climate Summit In what could be considered his most strongly-worded warning about the threat of climate change, U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations that there is little time to act before permanent environmental damage is irreversible. In a stirring speech,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Biology, Diseases, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 07 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Bridging the Science and Society Gap

There appears to be a huge disconnect between the public and scientists, as evidenced through a Pew Research Center report that came out last week. Science writer Chris Mooney, the author of Republican War on Science and Stormworld has a new book, titled, Unscientific America, showing just how un-science-focused...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 03 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Stalled Senate Science Confirmations Move Forward

After a month of waiting, President Obama’s science adviser Dr. John Holdren and his choice for the top administrator at NOAA, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, were voted out of the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee today. Speculations swirled about why the nominations were being held. Apparently...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, Video on 03 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment

President Obama okays Embryonic Stem Cells for Research

In an anticipated move, President Barack Obama reversed George W. Bush’s executive order, banning the use of embryonic stem cells in research. For eight years, scientists have been struggling to make advances while using weak stem cell lines, developed before August 2001. Monday’s decision...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 11 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Obama Makes Science People a Priority

Word Cloud, courtesy of Science Debate 2008, based on 14 questions about science and technology. President-elect Barack Obama indicated his support for science before he was elected President. He reaffirmed it by making science a central theme in his victory speech. And, as his transition team indicates,...