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[eridani]

Lots to report as we continue our work to help elevate science and technology in the American political dialogue.

Innovation 2008 The presidential campaigns tell us they are preparing answers to the 14 key science questions of Innovation 2008 and will have something to us soon.

http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=35

If you can't wait, you can find handy comparisons of what is known on the AAAS site here and the SEA site here.

http://election2008.aaas.org/comparisons/posmatrix2.shtml
http://sharp.sefora.org/innovation2008/mccain-obama/

Viral Vids

To encourage responses to these 14 questions and to the 7 congressional science questions we codeveloped with SEforA, and to get the public more jazzed about all this, Science Debate public outreach director Darlene Cavalier of sciencecheerleader.com has gone viral. Check out her fun and funny video here and her CNN video here, and be sure to ask your congressional candidates to respond to the 7 questions. You can post your own web video to CNN at the site, encouraging the candidates to respond to our invitation. If you do, be sure to let us know!

http://sciencecheerleader.com/2008/08/science_debate_the_candidates_like_youve_never_seen_them/
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-55265?ref=email

Innovation 2008 Conference We are cohosting a major conference with our friends at the Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, called Innovation 2008: Renewing America Through Smarter Science & Technology Policy, and focused on the presidential transition. Visit the conference site here, and please save the dates of October 20 and 21st. Science Debate 2008 supporters Peter Agre and Ira Flatow will deliver the keynotes, and supporters Andy Fire, Lawrence Krauss, Russ Lefevre, Chris Mooney, Genie Scott, Susan Wood, Mary Woolley, and many others will be presenting on a variety of topics important to the next administration.


City Club in Cleveland Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss, one of our six founders, will be speaking at the City Club in Cleveland on August 13 at noon, about the Science Debate initiative and what we have learned about the structure of American news and the political and institutional impediments we have been working to turn around so that science can be restored as an important part of the American political dialogue. This program will be broadcast on public radio in selected areas. You can find out more information or purchase tickets here, and you can tune in to hear the broadcast or download a podcast after the event from here.

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