powerlineblog.com - 12/26/2008
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On Saturday, Barack Obama named Harvard professor John Holdren director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Obama said:
Because the truth is that promoting science isn't just about providing resources -- it's about protecting free and open inquiry. It's about ...
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Maggie's Farm —
... Spiked. Sounds like people don't like to feel pushed around by the government they pay for. AVI on Special Education. From everything I've read about education, "special" or otherwise, neither $, nor computers, nor fancy buildings make any difference at all. "More Science in journalism school, please." Surber. My impression is that journalists understand science about as well as they understand economics. Speaking of science, Politicizing Science at Powerline. Steyn on Subprime Education, ...
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Discriminations —
... of any five such commodities, and I will wager that in a decade the price of the basket will decline, indicating decreased scarcity. Ehrlich picked five metals -- chrome, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten -- that he predicted would become more expensive. Not only did the price of the basket decline, the price of all five declined.
An expert Ehrlich consulted in picking the five was John Holdren, who today is President Obama's science adviser....
As this post by John Hinderaker last December reveals, however, Wills was not hard enough on ...
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