The move­ment to have US pres­i­den­tial candidates dis­cuss Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy in a devoted debate has been pick­ing up steam. Date and place are sched­uled: April 18th at the Franklin Insti­tute in Philadelphia.

- cospon­sored by the AAAS, the Coun­cil on Com­pet­i­tive­ness, the National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, the National Acad­emy of Engi­neer­ing, and the Insti­tute of Med­i­cine, and signed by over 100 lead­ing Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ties and other organizations

- Fri­day Busi­ness Week ran this story.

–  Intel Chair­man Craig Bar­rett and for­mer HHS Sec­re­tary Donna Sha­lala have signed on, as have numer­ous uni­ver­si­ties, includ­ing Stan­ford, Geor­gia Tech, Cor­nell, and sev­eral others. 

– “the big news is we have invited the can­di­dates.  And we’ve issued a press release.   The debate is set for April 18 at the Franklin Insti­tute in Philadelphia.  That’s four days before the Penn­syl­va­nia Primary.  The New York Times, MSNBC, and oth­ers have picked up the story.“ 

The orga­niz­ers ask all os us: “In fact, just about the only peo­ple we haven’t heard from are the campaigns.  If you have con­tacts at the Clin­ton, Huck­abee, McCain or Obama cam­paigns, please urge them to accept.“ 

For more infor­ma­tion: check out ScienceDebate2008.com.

 

And some good recent blog car­ni­vals (col­lec­tions of selected blog posts on spe­cific topics)

- Grand Rounds: health and medical issues

- Tan­gled Bank: all dis­ci­plines of science 

- Human Resources: HR-related topics

 

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