In this weblog post, I am continuing the discussion started yesterday when I invoked Carl Sagan's signature phrase, "Billions and Billions." Today I want to look at the budget that the U.S. Department of Education will have as part of the Economic Recovery and...
In this weblog post, I am continuing the discussion started yesterday when I invoked Carl Sagan's signature phrase, "Billions and Billions." Today I want to look at the budget that the U.S. Department of Education will have as part of the Economic Recovery and...
In the widely popular PBS program Cosmos, Carl Sagan approximated the numbers of planets, stars and galaxies in the Universe as "billions and billions"---his famous catch phrase. Over the past several months, American's have been reintroduced to the phrase "billions...
ScienceDebate2008 has been carefully monitoring, and indeed, encouraging participants in supporting the passage of the stimulus bill, which will be signed into law by President Obama in Colorado, on Tuesday. There are two broad strokes that have been taken to...
In yesterday's post, I used the phrase "track II diplomacy" when I was reporting an interview with Dr. Peter Agre, the new president of the AAAS. It turns out that Dr. Agre agrees with a group of American scientists who wish to talk with North Korean scientists, in a...
I received an email from ScienceDebate2008 asking to complete a survey designed by the National Academies to find out what matters most to interested participants. At the site you will read this statement: The National Academies want to develop websites, podcasts,...
