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Obama Gives Government Agencies Four Months To Make Digital Plan

The National Archives NCinDC via Flickr Bringing the nation’s recordkeeping strategy out of the WWII era and onto computers Despite this era’s amazing advances in data storage and data mining , the accumulated records of our federal bureaucracy are largely – and perhaps unsurprisingly – languishing in the early 20th century. Continue reading

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In NASA’s New Budget: Webb Telescope Stays Alive, But Commercial Spaceflight Takes a Hit

Full-scale model of James Webb Space Telescope, on display in Munich The model weighs 12,000 pounds. Continue reading

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Today’s Must-Read: Getting Bin Laden, Minute-by-Minute

“Getting Bin Laden,” published in this week’s New Yorker and online today , has all the trappings of a Hollywood espionage thriller. Continue reading

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Appeals Court Upholds Companies’ Right to Patent Genes, But the Future of Gene Research Remains Unclear

BRCA1 Active During Meiosis This confocal micrograph shows five mouse nuclei with chromosomes at the pachytene stage of meiosis. Continue reading

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Dear NASA: Please Keep the Promise of Human Spaceflight Alive

STS-135 Astronauts Training STS-135 pilot Doug Hurley (left) and mission specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus train for the final space shuttle flight in the Johnson Space Center’s crew compartment trainer NASA Or, perhaps more accurately: Dear Congress: please fund NASA sufficiently. Continue reading

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We Can and Should Put a Million Electric Cars on the Road by 2015

BMW Active-E Electric Car A 1 Series coupe converted to electric drive, the BMW Active-E will get 100 miles of driving range from a full charge of its lithium-ion battery pack Seth Fletcher PopSci’s own senior editor (and senior car expert) Seth Fletcher has a great op-ed in the New York Times today, giving an overview of the Obama administration’s plan to put a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015–a plan he says is vitally important, highly ambitious, and totally possible. Continue reading

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Why Obama calls GOP plan to delay government shutdown 'a …

Reuters Why Obama calls GOP plan to delay government shutdown ‘a distraction’ Christian Science Monitor House Republicans passed a continuing resolution that would delay a government shutdown for a week. Continue reading

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Obama maintains trademark calm amid rising shutdown storm …

Reuters Obama maintains trademark calm amid rising shutdown storm Christian Science Monitor President Obama speaks to reporters at the White House after meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker John Boehner, … Continue reading

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A science fiction story

A science fiction story I very much regret to have to criticize Obama knowing that there are in that country other could-be presidents worse than him. Continue reading

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The State of Science and Tech: What We Futurephiles Should Expect From Tonight’s SotU

Obama Delivering the 2010 SOTU Expect to hear about clean energy, sci/tech education, and more Since you must be currently plugged into the information tubes to be reading this, it’s safe to assume you’re also aware that President Obama will deliver the President’s annual State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. Continue reading

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