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Candidates Brand Each Other in Online Searches

September 22, 2008 4:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here's yet another way the presidential campaigns are using new technologies in their quest for the White House. Both campaigns are using Google's AdWords program to link their ads to particular searches, says Wired. For instance, the McCain campaign bought the term "Joe Biden" so that users searching for the Democratic vice presidential candidate will see an ad that links to a video of Biden criticizing Barack Obama. The Obama campaign, meanwhile, linked "economic crisis" to an ad that criticizes McCain as being "out of touch."

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: AdWords, Google, McCain, Obama, Wired

Obama's Science Advisors

September 18, 2008 2:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign tells Wired that the candidate is getting science advice from five noted scientists. Wired has profiles of: Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate and former head of the National Institutes of Health; Gilbert Ommen, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Peter Agre, a Nobel laureate and ardent critic of the Bush administration; NASA researcher Donald Lamb; and Stanford University plant biologist Sharon Long.

The magazine/website said Republican nominee John McCain has ignored repeated requests to identify his science advisors.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: McCain, Obama, science advisors, Wired

Obama Answers Science Debate Questions

September 3, 2008 2:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has responded to 14 questions about science and technology policy, posed by a group that had been calling on candidates to debate science issues. Wired summarizes his answers, which include a promise to increase funding for basic research and to lift the Bush administration's restrictions on stem-cell research. Republican candidate John McCain has said he will answer the same questions, but has not yet done so.

Tags: Obama, science debate, Wired

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Election Likely to Change Stem Cell Policy, Says Expert

August 28, 2008 7:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Whoever wins the presidential election, he'll likely increase funding for all forms of stem cell research, predicts University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan. Caplan tells Wired that, as stem cell research matures and the pile of money available for it grows, questions about ethics are likely to take a back seat to practical considerations. But he thinks there will still be arguments over what use to make of stem cells in humans and when to move them from the lab to actual use.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Art Caplan, stem cells, University of Pennsylvania, Wired

Warner Wins Over Twittering Crowd

August 27, 2008 6:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

People have been all a-Twitter at the Democratic National Convention, sending out their instant reactions to events in the message sharing service's 140-character chunks. Wired tells us that Virginia Gov. Mark Warner lit up Twitter during his keynote speech when he said, "In four months, we will have an administration that actually believes in science," garnering the approval of geeks everywhere. So far, there's been little talk of science policy at the convention.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Democratic Convention, Mark Warner, Twitter, Wired

Robot Planes Test Air Quality Over Beijing

August 12, 2008 2:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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A researcher from the University of California, San Diego, is using unmanned aerial vehicles to gather data on pollution during the Beijing Olympics. Atmospheric scientist V. Ram Ramanathan tells Wired that China's efforts to curb pollution during the Olympics, by reducing the use of cars and curbing industrial activity by as much as 30 percent, provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how a sudden drop in particulate emissions affects a large region of the atmosphere.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: air pollution, Beijing, UCSD, V. Ram Ramanathan, Wired

Three Ways for Next President to Improve Cybersecurity

August 11, 2008 5:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Both presidential candidates have mentioned the need for security in cyberspace but have tackled few details. Now a columnist at Wired is offering some broad advice on what the next president can do. His suggestions: Use government buying power to require secure machines and software, legislate the results and not the methods to achieve security, and invest broadly in research.

Bruce Schneier writes in his "memo" to the next President: "You have the buying power to get your vendors to make serious security improvements in the products and services they sell to the government, and then we all benefit...."

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: cyberspace, security, Wired

Air Force Developing Anti-Laser Protections

August 1, 2008 11:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Anticipating a day when enemy combatants will be armed with lasers capable of melting holes in its equipment and weapons, the U.S. Air Force is looking for technology that will protect its weapons. Among the possibilities listed in a request for proposals is a spray-on coating to deflect laser energy or a broadband reflector that can be embedded in a weapon's skin, Wired tells us. Such technologies, the Air Force suggests, could also protect commercial airliners from terrorists with lasers.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Air Force, laser, Wired

You Put De Lime in De Ocean and It Eats Up All De Carbon

July 24, 2008 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Shell is exploring an idea from the 1990s that would dump quicklime into the ocean, where it would absorb carbon dioxide and store it on the ocean floor. Wired says that Shell is providing seed funding to a British start-up, Cquestrate, to explore the idea. Proponents say the plan would also combat acidification of the ocean, which could destroy coral reefs. But it could take 300 billion cubic feet of limestone to capture one year's worth of carbon emissions.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: carbon storage, Cquestrate, quicklime, Shell, Wired

Obama Outperforms McCain in Cyberspace, Survey Says

July 22, 2008 12:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The number of visitors to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's web site surged by more than 90 percent in June, but didn't come close to what his Democratic rival got, according to the online tracking service Compete. Wired reports that McCain got 807,518 unique visitors in June, but Barack Obama got 2.5 million in the same month. What's more, the survey found, visitors spent nine minutes on Obama's pages for every minute they spent on McCain's.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: Compete, McCain, Obama, websites, Wired

Cancer Nanotech a "Good Example" of Government Spending

July 9, 2008 6:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The development of nanotechnology as a tool to fight cancer is leading to promising treatments, showing that government spending in a focused area of research can be good for business and for the public, argues a writer at Wired. Looking at the field of nanotechnology developed to treat cancer, the author says funding from the National Cancer Institute has led to promising developments in the field. So far, there are at least 48 clinical trials going on, many of them in Phase II, the intermediate phase in testing new medicines.

Web pick posted by Neil Savage, Xconomy.com

Tags: nanotechnology, National Cancer Institute, Wired

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Robot Planes Test Air Quality Over Beijing

Three Ways for Next President to Improve Cybersecurity

Air Force Developing Anti-Laser Protections

You Put De Lime in De Ocean and It Eats Up All De Carbon

Obama Outperforms McCain in Cyberspace, Survey Says

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