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How Nerds Can Help America's Economy
Written By: Eben Esterhuizen
2008-08-05 14:15:25
While the twentieth century had the arms race, the competition in this century will be a brains race, and it looks like America is falling behind.

"Although the United States continues to possess the world's strongest science and engineering enterprise, its position is jeopardized both by evolving weakness at home and by growing strength abroad," said a recent National Academy of Sciences report.

The report found that U.S. funding of "research in most physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering has declined or remained flat — in real purchasing power — for several decades." The report also argued that leadership in high-energy physics, a U.S. franchise since the Manhattan Project built the atomic bomb, is shifting overseas.

Beginning in 2007, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth will be outside the USA for the first time in decades. Similarly, U.S. scientists complain that fusion reactor tests and underground physics labs needed to stay ahead in the most cutting-edge areas are all overseas.

How Technology is Changing Politics
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-06-23 22:31:43
When I told a friend I was going to the Personal Democracy Forum she said, “Whoa.”

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Innerspace: When Sci-Fi Becomes Just Plain Sci
Written By: Jeanne Roberts
2008-08-20 12:32:17

Photo: baboon™, Creative Commons, Flickr

Remember the 1987 sci-fi movie Innerspace (with Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan), where test-pilot Quaid is miniaturized and travels inside Short’s body?

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Nanotechnology: Real or Imagined Danger?
Written By: Jeanne Roberts
2008-07-28 13:46:40

In 2002, Michael Crichton wrote a fiction thriller called Prey, which highlights the dangers of nanotechnology.

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NetSquared Year 3 Conference, Part I
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-05-28 00:44:53

Photo: ReefRaff, Creative Commons, Flickr<
I attended the NetSquared Year 3 Conference on May 27-28, 2008 in San Jose, CA, right after Memorial Day weekend. I had spent the weekend in Berkeley, CA at my friend Sammy's wedding so I was a little shaky for the meet and greet on Monday night, but Jean Russell from Nurture Girl stepped in as my unofficial political adviser and helped me network within minutes.

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