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"The Democratic senator wasn't there to try to win evangelical votes by touting his support for abortion rights. Nor was he there hoping to persuade them to change their minds on that question. What he did instead was this: He disagreed with them."
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"This Physics Today site will track the candidates' positions and statements related to a broad range of science issues. Analysis from Physics Today magazine, reports from the political writers at the American Institute of Physics, and links to other relevant material will also be included."
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"[Nathan] Myhrvold wanted to make insightsâÂÂto come up with ideas, patent them, and then license them to interested companies."
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"[T]he focus on religion takes away the focus from the real issue: improving public understanding of scientific medicine and what it can and cannot accomplish."
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"We call upon our elected officials: To support an informed and dispassionate public debate over the effects of the 21 year-old drinking age."
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"[The Class of 2012] is a multicultural, politically correct and âÂÂgreenâ generation that has hardly noticed the threats to their privacy and has never feared the Russians and the Warsaw Pact."
Myhrvold's idea of running a company that does nothing but generate patents and license them out is interesting. But to patent something, don't you need a working example of it? If so, you can't just have smart people thinking stuff up, you also need engineers and technicians to create the darn things. And I don't see any mention of that in the article.