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Intel STS 2010. Credit: Intel

America’s Real Dream Team

by Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times, 03.20.2010

 America’s real Dream Team are young scientists like the 40 Finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search. So says Pulitzer-Prize winning author Tom Friedman, after meeting them.
 

Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy

by Dennis Overbye
New York Times, 01.26.2009

 When Barack Obama proclaimed in his Inaugural Address that he would “restore science to its rightful place,” you could feel a dark cloud lifting like a sigh from the scientific community.
 

A Biblical Seven Years

by Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times, 08.26.2008

 As Tom Friedman watched the closing ceremony of the Olympic games, he couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years.
 

Learning to Speak Climate

by Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times, 08.05.2008

 "my trip ... to see the effects of climate change on Greenland’s ice sheet leaves me with a very strong opinion: Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day."
 
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Texas to Tel Aviv

by Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times, 07.27.2008

 What would happen if you crossed Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You’d get Shai Agassi, an Israeli software whiz kid who's now obsessed with making Israel the world’s leader in electric cars.
 

Dumb as We Wanna Be

by Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times, 04.30.2008

 The U.S. has reached a point “where the priorities of Congress could become so distorted by politics” that it would turn its back on the next great global industry — clean power — “but that’s exactly ...
 
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The Earth Will Be Just Fine, Thank You

by Jamais Cascio
Open the Future, 04.23.2008

 "The grand myth of environmentalism is that it's all about saving the Earth. It's not. The Earth will be just fine. Environmentalism is all about saving ourselves."
 
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Why Bother?

by Michael Pollan
New York Times Magazine, 04.20.2008

 Serious reflections on a serious question.
 
Bernard Amadei. Source: Univ of Colorado

Engineering as Diplomacy

by Bernard Amadei
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 03.26.2008

 You cannot look into the eyes of a child who is dying from a disease caused by drinking dirty water without thinking, "I'm an engineer. There must be something I can do."
 

A Great Leap Forward

by Chris Turney
New York Times, 02.29.2008

 Now that we’re in the 21st century, and time is measured according to oscillations of vaporized atoms, why do we still need something as oddly quaint as leap year?
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