by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 20, 2008 | Blog, Science Policy
Obama: ” It is time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology.” Science bloggers are thrilled, the Science Debate team is giddy, a few folks are cautiously...
by Darlene Cavalier | Nov 23, 2008 | Science Policy
And the web site rose into the top 1/4 of 1% of most visited sites on the internet. In a post election letter to nearly 40,000 supporters of elevating science in the elections, Science Debate CEO Shawn Otto highlighted several pivotal successes and addressed the need...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 30, 2008 | Events, In the News
I’m back from Minneapolis where I had the pleasure of being a presenter at Innovation 2008, the brainchild of Science Debate 2008 and the University of Minnesota. Here’s a post I wrote for Discover Magazine.com Or, click the links below and watch the...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 22, 2008 | Events, In the News, Science Policy
I ripped this entire post off from Sheril Kirshenbaum at The Intersection.com. (What can I say? She beat me to the punch. I was a speaker at the Innovation 2008 event, referenced below, and I’ll be right back with highlights from those juicy discussions!) When...
by Darlene Cavalier | Oct 8, 2008 | Blog, Science Policy, Social network science
What does Cap and Trade mean? Where do the candidates say they stand on this particular issue and how do their words compare to their voting histories? Any mom who used bingo chips to barter babysitting hours will understand this analogy immediately. Take a group of...