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APS Born While Washington Was Busy with Other Matters
No disrespect for the importance of the event, but the slice of Washington concerned with science was engaged with other matters, bizarre and normal, when APS was born in 1988. In evident disarray, the Reagan
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Ballots and Budgets
Can the care and feeding of science win support and votes for a politician? From the record of recent presidential campaigns, including the current marathon, the candidates don’t think so. None among the platoon of
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The Federal Budget Season
Apple-picking, leaf piles, and pumpkins — all things that come with fall here in the East. But there’s another thing that’s synonymous with fall hereabouts: the annual Congressional scramble to pass the federal budget that
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Bringing Science to Society
Scientific advances seem to be emerging faster than ever before. Today, we can see brain functioning with neuroimaging, and we can measure attitudes that people are not even aware of with implicit association tests. With
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Reviving Congress’s Old Think Tank
When the Democrats regained power this year on Capitol Hill, hopes rose for the resurrection of Congress’s own think tank, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a largely Democratic creation that was vengefully terminated in
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We Need a Second NIH
“In my opinion, the greatest risk for science is to stop taking risks,” Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has written. In furtherance of this theme, which holds sacred status
