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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “national science foundation”

 

• Proposed bill that would regulate NSF research funding faces backlash

  
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  Over the past several months, Congress has gotten rather upset by some of the research funded by arms of the federal government, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. That displeasure eventually prompted the House Science Committees chair, Lamar Smith (R-TX), to float a bill ...
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• Carnegie Mellon Robot Uses Non-Visual Data To Identify Objects

  
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  A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone; but by taking advantage of all of the information available to it – an object’s location, size, shape and even whether it can… Read more → The post Carnegie Mellon Robot Uses Non-Visual Data To Identify ...
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• Lysenkoism, or Thought Control

  
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  Trofim LysenkoLysenkoism was the name given to centralized political control over the sciences of genetics and agronomy in the old Soviet Union from the late 1920s to 1964. Named after Trofim Lysenko, a minister of agriculture under Lenin and Stalin, the term "Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the ...
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• Lamar Smith’s dreadful plan to religion up your science.

  
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  Let’s all let Sarah Palin decide what is scientifically valid and what is not, shall we? Sound like a bad idea to you? Well, it sounds like a grand idea to House of Representatives Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas. According to Science Insider, the Texas Rep has drafted a bill requiring all National ...
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• Semiconductor Research Corporation, National Science Foundation Introduce Compact Modeling Initiative for …

  
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  Semiconductor Research Corporation recently joined the National Science Foundation as a partner in an ongoing NSF project to further develop compact models of emerging (read on…)
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• Politicians Want to Tell Scientists What to Research

  
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  Republicans on the House science committee are seeking to gain oversight over what scientific research the National Science Foindation funds.
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• ESA Policy News: May 3

  
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  Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Science Policy Analyst Terence Houston.  Read the full Policy News here. NSF: SCIENCE COMMITTEE LEADERS WEIGH IN ON BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH INVESTMENT A letter to National Science Foundation (NSF) Acting-Director Cora Marrett from House Science, Space and ...
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• Harvard Researchers Continue Work On Autonomous Robotic Insects

  
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  Harvard University researchers are continuing work on autonomic robotic insects, says the university in a statement. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, are currently working on dozens of… Read more ...
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• Briefing highlights importance of social science research

  
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  By Terence Houston, Science Policy Analyst In recent months, there have been multiple congressional attempts to interfere with  the  National Science Foundation’s support of the nation’s fundamental research particularly  related to social and behavioral science research.  Such attacks have happened ...
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• Engaging Online Crowds Important For Teaching Innovation, Finds Study

  
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  Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators at Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University say, even when the quality of the feedback provided by online sources doesn’t always match the quantity.… Read more → The post Engaging Online Crowds ...
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• Republicans want to be able to dictate what federally funded scientists can research

  
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  National Science Foundation Republicans finally are doing something about the increasing conflict between science and their own political ideologies and beliefs. Theyre trying to stop such science from happening. As explained by Jeffrey Mervis of Science Magazine : The new chair of the House of Representatives ...
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• Job market confidence grew in 2012

  
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  Confidence in the U.S. job market has rebounded to roughly a normal level from its record low after the Great Recession, a trend that could help boost the economy. Americans increasingly feel they could find a new job if necessary, according to the results of the 2012 General Social Survey, a long-standing poll of ...
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• The 10 Biggest Things Your Income Taxes Pay For

  
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  Filed under: Taxes , Government Spending , Income Tax , IRS Lance Cheung/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images Now that tax season is over (except for those who filed for an extension), its natural to wonder exactly where the hard-earned dollars you paid in tax over the past year actually went. To answer that ...
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• whitman’s i crossed the nevadas, big govmint can be a good thing, workplace mobbing

  
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  Walt Whitman’s hand written poem I cross’d the Nevadas… I cross’d the Nevadas, I cross’d the plateaus, I ascended the towering rocks along the Pacific, I sail’d out to sea, I sail’d through the storm, I was re- fresh’d by the storm, I watch’d with joy the threatening maws of the waves, I ...
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• M-5 Could Not Be Reached For Comment

  
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  “The unmatched ability of the human brain to process and make sense of large amounts of complex data has caught the attention of engineers working in the field of control systems,” the National Science Foundation reports , earning one of Hot Air’s patented “Dude?” headlines: “The brain is one of the ...
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• President Obama’s Investment In Neuroscience Research

  
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  President Obama will be investing $100 million in 2014 to the new neuroscience research initiative named Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies also called “Brain”. Supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science ...
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• ESA Policy News: April 19

  
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  Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Science Policy Analyst Terence Houston.  Read the full Policy News here. BUDGET: SCIENCE RECEIVES HIGH PRIORTY IN WHITE HOUSE FY 2014 PROPOSAL On April 10, the White House released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget proposal, which includes significant ...
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• Mapping Ecological Change with NEON

  
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  With Earth Day nearing, it is an opportune time to highlight a developing project, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).  NEON is funded by the National Science Foundation.  Elizabeth Blood, the National Science Foundation program director responsible for overseeing NEON, Dave Tazik, NEON’s director ...
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• Earth Week: The Search for White Gold–Snowmelt

  
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  Thin snowpack puts ecosystems and water resources in critical condition The following is part twelve in a series on the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network.  Visit parts  one ,  two ,  three ,  four ,  five ,  six ,  seven ,  eight ,  nine ,  ten  and eleven ...
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• Scientist citizens—biologists on Capitol Hill

  
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  By Terence Houston, ESA science policy analyst and Nadine Lymn, ESA director of public affairs “The Congressman believes strongly in the value of fundamental research the National Science Foundation makes possible and will continue to support it.” “…the Senator is concerned that NSF funds some “silly ...
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