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	<title>The Forum on Science, Ethics, and Policy</title>
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	<description>Promoting dialogue among scholars, policy experts, and the public about the role of science in society</description>
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		<title>Monkey lost his job, needs $$ for crack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does funding basic research create jobs, or just dump federal money down the drain? A  joint report  by Senators Tom Coburn and John McCain, entitled &#8220;Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects That Give Taxpayers the Blues&#8221; seems to imply it is often the latter. Among the &#8220;wasteful projects&#8221; they list are a study on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/09/monkey-lost-his-job-needs-for-crack/</link>
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		<title>Scientists as elected officials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How important is it for scientists to participate in the policy process as elected officials?  There are several PhD trained scientists currently serving in Congress, but one will be retiring after this year.  Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers (D-Mich) has served eight and a half terms in the House of Representatives.  Rep. Ehlers earned his PhD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/08/scientists-as-elected-officials/</link>
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		<title>Court Ruling Prevents Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A court ruling yesterday has halted federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The case is centered around a federal law which prevents the funding of research that involves the destruction of human embryos. This “Dickey-Wicker Amendment” has been part of the NIH funding since 1996, but since 1999 the government has interpreted the law [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/08/court-ruling-prevents-funding-of-embryonic-stem-cell-research/</link>
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		<title>DOE Carbon Capture Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the DOE website:
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on July 22nd  the selections of six projects that aim to find ways of converting  captured carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sources into  useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers.  Funded  with $106 million from the American Recovery and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/08/doe-carbon-capture-program/</link>
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		<title>TED talks- A source of inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 30th, 2010, the X Prize Foundation (http://www.xprize.org) announced its most recent project, “…a multi-million dollar prize [aimed] at cleanup efforts in the Gulf as a way to incentivize immediately privately-funded innovation and action.”  Francis Beland (VP of X Prize) and Dave Gallo (Oceanographer) made the announcement during the TEDxOilSpill Conference in Washington, D.C.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/08/ted-talks-a-source-of-inspiration/</link>
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		<title>Open Science Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just heard about a conference that&#8217;s going on right now in California, the Open Science Summit, with streaming video of the talk also available.  It looks like there should be a lot of topics that may be of interest to people reading here. From the description on the streaming page:
From July 29-31, scientists, hackers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/07/open-science-summit/</link>
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		<title>A Framework for Science Education: Updates to K-12 Science Standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back when I was at the AAAS conference I mentioned one of the panels discussing a project being done by the National Research Council or NRC (a division of the National Academies) to update recommendations for K-12 science standards. The draft of this report was released last week, and the NRC panel is accepting comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/07/sci-standard/</link>
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		<title>The Dismal Prospects for Scientific Employment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most depressing articles I&#8217;ve ever read in my entire life describes the problem American students face when pondering a career in science.  For years, the conventional wisdom was that our education system was failing to properly educate our children in STEM subjects (science, tech, engineering, and math).  However, this article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/07/the-dismal-prospects-for-employment/</link>
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		<title>How much evidence is enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 22, a New Orleans federal judge lifted the ban President Barack Obama had placed on offshore drilling.  The six-month moratorium was put banning deepwater drilling like that of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, killing 11 people and spilling thousands of gallons of oil daily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/06/how-much-evidence-is-enough/</link>
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		<title>“Why yes, I am an oceanographer.  No, I do not study oil spills.”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In graduate school, I study oceanography.  And within this field, the tiny, single-celled organisms known as phytoplankton.  My favorite 1-liner when in a crowd, “Did you know that 1 in every 2 breaths you take was generated by phytoplankton?”  It’s a definite crowd-pleaser.  What I do not study are whales, dolphins, or seabirds, although I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/06/gulf-oil-spill/</link>
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